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John Kerry and Porn Spammers

I found the oddest thing in my web site logs the other day.  The John Kerry campaign is now using the exact same tactics as the online peddlers of kiddie porn, viagra, and penis enlargers.  He's spamming his own website by filling the logs of other people's web sites with bogus referal data.

access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:18:22:05 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel HTTP/1.1" 301 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"
access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:18:22:06 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"
access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:19:34:08 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel HTTP/1.1" 301 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"
access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:19:34:09 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"
access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:21:33:52 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel HTTP/1.1" 301 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"
access.log.4:172.144.61.107 www.saidsimple.com - [17/Feb/2004:21:33:53 -0700] "HEAD /writers/daniel/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.01 [en]"

It's sad to see idiot politicians turn into idiot spammers.

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