OT: Spamming Log Files?
Erik Price
eprice at ptc.com
Thu May 1 08:28:39 EDT 2003
Jason Stephenson wrote:
> Anyway, I'm not overly concerned about it, but it looks like there might
> be a new trend in advertising brewing, or has this been going on for a
> long time and I've just not noticed until now?
If it looks like a duck...
It does seem to be a kind of spam, because you haven't asked them to
monitor your web site, so why would they be accessing it?
They offer a service that would only be of interest to webmasters, so it
appears that they are using a channel that is also only of interest to
webmasters to narrow the scope of their advertising efforts. It's a
pretty effective approach IMHO, though I'm not saying that I think it's
right.
Erik
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