Wondering about strange referrer

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  wrathchild · Member · Jun 5, 2006 at 8:14 pm

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  I’m seeing the following referrer in my blog stats:

  http://shinto.cc/shinto-bin/MR_ViewTopic.pl?Topic=1149095167908

  Yet when I try to load that URL I’m getting a 404 error. Any ideas?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 5, 2006 at 8:38 pm

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  Looks like some type of forum software running on Perl. I only see a couple of URLs with “MR_ViewTopic” in them in Google and MSN. They don’t come up either though.

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  wrathchild · Member · Jun 6, 2006 at 3:55 am

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  I figured as much, and Googled for different parts of the URI but didn’t get many clues. Thus my question here.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 6, 2006 at 1:17 pm

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  Got me and I’ve been on the net for over 20 years. It’s not every day I hit a program I’ve never seen before like this. There’s some real common Perl bulletin board systems out there like WebBBS, the other Matt’s WWWBoard and Ultimate Bulletin Board and none of them put out a string like that. I’m assuming that the “shinto-bin” is just some sort of alias for a cgi-bin.

  I’ve gone ahead and posted this to my inhouse support forum, over at *shudder* ev1 and SitePoint along with a couple of others to see if it rings a bell with anyone else.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike