159.115.185.165 – – [03/Jun/2004:12:54:48 -0400] “GET /~ptomblin/spam.html HTTP/1.1” 200 62881 “http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=how+make+spam&y=y&e=15316877&f=0%3A2766678%3A2718086%3A254845%3A9156085%3A91953%3A91989%3A15316877&r=Society+and+Culture%02Food+and+Drink%02Countries+and+Cultures%02Hawaiian%02Recipes” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”
Decoded, that means that somebody went to the Yahoo directory pages for “Society and Culture/Food and Drink/Countries and Cultures/Hawaiian/Recipes”, then searched for “how make spam”, and ended up at a page of mine that describes how to stop email spam (now extremely out of date). I’m pretty sure that isn’t what they wanted.
Frankly, the fact that they want to learn how to make spam is in itself disturbing.
Might not be as sinister as you think. A cow orker of mine lived in Hawaii for two years. According to him, Hormel’s SPAM is a very popular “food” on the islands. Perhaps someone was looking for Hawaiian-inspired SPAM dishes. Just a thought.
The Hawaiians like, of all things, Spam sushi.