I’m sorry but this is just sad. It appears that John Kerry has joined the merry group of hard core sex sites that regularly spam my web logs with so called referrer spam .
How this works is that you create generally some sort of spider, that instead of sucking up email addresses hits your site with the http referrer of the offending site. In this case blog.johnkerry.com, who I really wont dignify with a real link.
The end result is a link displayed in my log viewer or if I had one a link displayed in my referrer scroll log on my blog, which is most likely what they were after in the first place.
Now I have no interest in adding to the incredibly boring goings on about the democratic primaries. But this is just plain silly.
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I don't think the Kerry campaign is doing this themselves.
Posted by: Keith Lea on February 17, 2004 11:03 PMIn fact, the Kerry Campaign has no idea this is being done "on their behalf." The same outfit is referer spamming for www.drudgereport.com, nytimes.com, and many, many other sites that have never heard of the "StarProse Referrer Advertising System".
This is a publicity stunt on the part of some two-bit referer spam company. They've been at it for months now. You just noticed *now*?
Did you *really* think it was the Kerry Campaign?
Posted by: Jacques Distler on February 18, 2004 02:58 AMSeriously folks. So maybe the Kerry campaign isnt directly behind it. But is there any evidence that their not?
I'm not sure why I shouldnt think that it was the Kerry campaign? I spent many years in political campaigning and dodgy ideas as long as they cant necessarily be proven are popular. More so in the US than in most places.
I wont get into a Kerry vs anyone campaign as I really truely dont care, not living in the US.