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title: Blogspamming
date: "2002-10-29T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1065
description: I explored the emerging trend of blogspamming targeting referral logs. Because my hosting service doesn't provide these logs, I am accidentally immune to this new phenomenon that uses site statistics to gain visibility.
keywords: [blogspam, referral logs, web hosting, internet history, wired, kuro5hin]
---

[Blogspamming: the new phenomenon](http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56017,00.html). It works only if you have a referral log, and look at it. Unfortunately for me, thanks to my crazy domain hosting service, I am blogspam-immune. [via kuro5hin](http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/10/27/192238/97)