Are you still logging referrers? The referrer bot buggar bastards were going nuts in my back room yesterday.

As a matter of general interest, walking back up Queen St, from getting my noonly grease, I met an Al clone .. twice..really gave me a start as I stopped myself from running over to him and kicking his shins.

I don't even want to know why you get greased at noon, then see visions of Al. Must be what the referring bot bugger bastards are doing to your backroom.

... and Al, I think they're all coming for the enlightened discourse.

Nils: It's sum jeesley good talkin' its true.

Craig: I can manually deduct my direct referral log entries and they are at about 5% of hits but only a smidge of visits - as they NEVER GO AWAY!!! What I am interested in, however, is the RSS visits as I am now for Feb at 53500 RSS visits out of 65000 visits month to date. That is now 82.3% and has been steadily growing for over a year. What may be happening is some sort of RSS spamming of somekind but I have no idea what good that would do anyone as it would not show on google as a Referral of any kind. I suppose if you set up an aggregator site, grab my content and those of others, post it and run Google ads. Is that done?

its not me. i was only here 4000 times yesterday.

Alan, that sounds new to me. Could you look up the IP addresses using senderbase.org, and see if they are "zombies" / well-known spam addresses?

I don't mean all those xxx,000 ofcourse, just a random selection, of say 5 - 10.

I cannot see my individual RSS visitors, alfons, in the way I can see commentator and referral log IP addresses.

I, for one, am human.

...either that, or a robotic study in imperfection.

Checking in from the suburbs of Chicago. You are in my favorites folder and part of my morning rounds.

Hail! Everyone say hi to Greg.

Hi Greg