[attrition] Attrition Web Logs: A Study of Oddballs

[lyger]

http://attrition.org/postal/logs/logs.001.html

Thu July 6 22:42:17 EST 2006

nepen and lyger

According to our meta tags, "Attrition.org is an eclectic collection of 
internet and computer security resources." Pages about security, movie 
reviews, poetry, statistics, and firearms are all available from the main 
page, but many others written long ago (and sometimes forgotten about, 
even by us) are still on the site. Despite our collective problems 
remembering every single piece of content on the site, we are constantly 
reminded of past transgressions, addictions, and general weirdness through 
the file known as "access_log." For various reasons, people far and wide 
use their favorite search engines to find something, anything, that will 
help them solve their "problem of the day." Every click on a link to 
attrition.org becomes a new member of our happy family, and that's where 
we come in, because we actually read those logs. We "just ain't right," 
but apparently many people who visit attrition.org have issues of their 
own to deal with.

To break some of these down, we have specific examples of search queries 
that not only led the searcher to attrition, but may also show a little 
bit of insight into the weirdness of those who find us:

Penis problems:

c-67-175-196-144.hsd1.il.comcast.net - - [03/Jun/2006:22:29:30 -0400] "GET 
/misc/ee/foreskin HTTP/1.1" 200 12090 
"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=my+dick+is+bleeding" "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; America Online Browser 1.1; Windows NT 5.1; 
{708667E9-45D7-535A-16D8-661E3B91A025}; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

Why is this guy not going to a HOSPITAL instead of finding us on Google?

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