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Subject: Details on OpenDocument XML.org External Referral Sites
Rob posed an interesting question on today's call concerned external sites stats on the XML.org report I sent yesterday. Neil Schelly, the OASIS Senior Systems Administrator, offers the explanation below: -----Original Message----- From: Neil Joseph Schelly [mailto:neil.schelly@oasis-open.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:17 AM To: Carol Geyer Subject: Re: FW: OpenDocument XML.org Stats It's called referer spam (spelling mistake intentional, as a result of referer being part of the HTTP spec). When you submit a request to a website, you also submit the referer field, which is the page address you are clicking from. This is how those statistics about where people are clicking from are generated from. Somewhere along the line, a lot of sites started reporting this stuff openly. The premise of spam is to get links to the spam sites on other sites. These pharma sites would get value out of having our site link to theirs. If these pages were open, then every request they submit to our site would create a link to their site like above. It doesn't work on us since these data bits aren't available to anyone except logged in users, but they try anyway. -N On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:59:00 am you wrote: > Neil, > Page 8 of the attached stat report lists a bunch of external web sites > that are driving traffic to OpenDocument XML.org. They are all pharma > companies with no apparent connection to ODF. > > The ODF Adoption Cmte members asked me if there was an explanation for > this. Do you have any clue what this might reflect? > > Thanks, > Carol > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org] > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:54 PM > To: 'odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org' > Subject: OpenDocument XML.org Stats > > Attached is a traffic report for OpenDocument XML.org. We can discuss > on tomorrow's call. > > -- > Carol Geyer, Director of Communications > OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society > http://www.oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 > > New to OASIS? Take a Tour > http://www.oasis-open.org/home/tour.php -- Neil Schelly, Senior Systems Administrator OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org/ W: +1.978.667.5115 x213 M: +1.508.410.4776 New to OASIS? Take a Tour http://www.oasis-open.org/home/tour.php
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