Comments on: Conspiracies everywhere http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/ writes on spam and admin issues Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Keith http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-823 Keith Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:06:46 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-823 Yes yes, I'm talking about the URL not being obscured by a script. It's probably something someone forgot to set up. I realize direct links send lots of information. Yes yes, I’m talking about the URL not being obscured by a script. It’s probably something someone forgot to set up. I realize direct links send lots of information.

]]> By: Administrator http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-821 Administrator Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:59:32 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-821 It's not a bug. Anywhere a live link is clicked on, the recipient site is going to know where the click came from, unless there's a script that redirects the click, obscuring what page the link was on. The reason nobody's said anything before is most likely that few people look at raw logs or referrers quite the same way I do. One referrer would drown in most setups. I keep on top of my referrers any time I can, because of the spam hunting. You can see so much from referrers and raw log entries when you're talking about people who are slightly paranoid. So the referrers are scrutinized on a whole other level than normal site owners would bother with. It’s not a bug. Anywhere a live link is clicked on, the recipient site is going to know where the click came from, unless there’s a script that redirects the click, obscuring what page the link was on.

The reason nobody’s said anything before is most likely that few people look at raw logs or referrers quite the same way I do. One referrer would drown in most setups. I keep on top of my referrers any time I can, because of the spam hunting. You can see so much from referrers and raw log entries when you’re talking about people who are slightly paranoid. So the referrers are scrutinized on a whole other level than normal site owners would bother with.

]]> By: Keith http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-819 Keith Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:52:56 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/06/08/conspiracies-everywhere/#comment-819 Don't worry about the forum discussion. The gist of things is that it seems wrong that you saw a referrer like that. It's apparently a bug in the setup somewhere. Innocent and guilty parties both shouldn't know about what sites are mentioned in an accusation. If this isn't a new bug, I'm surprised nobody else has reported finding what you found. Don’t worry about the forum discussion. The gist of things is that it seems wrong that you saw a referrer like that. It’s apparently a bug in the setup somewhere. Innocent and guilty parties both shouldn’t know about what sites are mentioned in an accusation. If this isn’t a new bug, I’m surprised nobody else has reported finding what you found.

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