Looking through my logs just now, I see lots of spurious requests with referer values for various businesses who seem to think that I’m going to give them some publicity or marketing assistance.
I wonder if there isn’t some way to cull these and create a central “wall of shame” clearinghouse: of course, one could easily put one’s competitors name up on the wall as easily as one’s own. But I doubt that’s happening: I think these are people as misguided and self-centered as Canter & Siegel (what, you didn’t know that it took lawyers to invent commercial spam?).