referrer spam

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• - Blatant referrer spam may be evolving into more a subtle game.
  
• - Blog entry discussing ongoing problems and solutions.
  
• - Blog entry showing how it's not just junk sites trying to get links.
  
• - Brief description of the technique and the purpose, with some examples.
  
• - A weird referrer entry prompts some detective work and a log sanitization spree.
  
• - Talks about companies like mastodonte.com and their business models of spamming referrer logs.
  
• - Forum thread about why you should not publish your website statistics online. Namely, referrer spam.
  
• - Blog entry showing javascript trickery in trackback and comment links.
  
• - Blog entry with a few coding suggestions and examples to thwart the spammers.
  
• - Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.
  
• - An early article noting website visits from spammers.