[thelist] Curious log data

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 15 04:02:01 CDT 2002


>From: "Adrian Fischer" <adrian at aussiebidder.com>

>I have just been checking my web logs and have seen that a number of
>referring URLs have come from webmail sites like this:
>http://webmail.alphalink.com.au/cgi-bin/dmailweb.cgi and this:
>http://mail.steveswinebar.com/Xd8769dc99ecb9bcfc9600bd5bb/login.cgi?_
>
>I don't see how they could have surfed on in from those addresses, so being
>paranoid as I am, I thought that perhaps someone is using them to SPAM
>through my site.
>
>I could be totally wrong and hopefully I am.  Any Ideas what is going on?

They clicked on a link in their webmail system, probably because they
received a mail with a URL to your site. The referrer is thus their webmail
page.

ppk

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