So I look at my stats page and see that 144.136.66.135 is a very busy address on my site. It's some AU ip.

[...] name = CPE-144-136-66-135.nsw.bigpond.net.au.

Interesting. I check out my archived access logs to see what this ip was browsing. I archive my logs every day for a year. So I'm looking for the access logs for the last couple of days.

jim@styx:~/jimweller.net/logs$ zcat access.log.?.gz | grep 144.136.66.135 > it
jim@styx:~/jimweller.net/logs$ head it
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:38:29 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.steppingstonespecialists.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:38:29 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.youthjobsearch.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:39:50 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.psultra.net/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:39:59 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.westsidecampus.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:40:15 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.j-people.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:42:16 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.doscoyotesenterprises.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:44:54 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.myjobsux.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:45:01 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.prescotthighlandsaz.com/" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:45:34 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.easytigerrecords.com" "-"
144.136.66.135 - - [07/Mar/2004:06:46:42 -0900] "GET http://www.jimweller.net HTTP/1.1" 200 118 "http://www.concordmass.net/" "-"
[..snip...]

Anyway there's 4,533 of them. All going for my main page, but witout fetching images or style sheets to render them. Notice every referer (site that this supposed browser came from) is different? This is just some ahorle trying to promote websites.

See some executives will look at a report of referers and see those websites. Free marketing, plus false positives for possible business relationships ("Jack, get freeporn.com on the horn.").

To me it's spam and 4MB on my cable modem quota. That's what you get for hosting at home, knowing too much, and having too much time on your hands.