Comments on: This is getting ridiculous http://blog.xcski.com/2005/02/01/this-is-getting-ridiculous Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Barry Price http://blog.xcski.com/2005/02/01/this-is-getting-ridiculous/comment-page-1#comment-544 Barry Price Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=440#comment-544 I've seen plenty of blogs with a sidebar block showing recent referrers. Perhaps the spammers are attacking those. I've never had a hosting company offer webalyzer stats outside the "user area" (cpanel or whatever), so it's usually protected by .htaccess anyway. Either way, it seems like a stupidly small number of vulnerable people to bother attacking. Curious. I’ve seen plenty of blogs with a sidebar block showing recent referrers. Perhaps the spammers are attacking those.

I’ve never had a hosting company offer webalyzer stats outside the “user area” (cpanel or whatever), so it’s usually protected by .htaccess anyway.

Either way, it seems like a stupidly small number of vulnerable people to bother attacking. Curious.

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