Referrer spam
It appears that I have become a target for referrer log spammers. Wired.com wrote an article about this last year:
Referral logs, intended to collect information on who visited a website and how they happened to arrive there, are being stuffed with bogus links. Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.
Kasia at unix-girl.com has known about it for quite a while, as have others, and enterfornone at kuro5hin.org was aware of it two years ago already.
Seems like it's quite a big deal. I'm going to monitor my logs for a month and then decide if I'll keep them available to the public domain or not.
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