Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?

Maybe you should change the name of the file in question.

Rossi Designs
(904) 226-8979
P.O. Box 1084, Holly Hill, Florida 32125-1084
http://rossidesigns.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
To: <darrell(at)webctr.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?


|
| No, and that's the puzzle.  The client's a consumer rights organisation.
We
| have some polls that could be used by the consumer rights advocates for
| their campaigns,  we have some petitions we're asking users to sign, but
| this user is hitting the front page all the time, not the polls or the
| activists pages.  And not the shop either.
|
| I's doing us no harm that I can see, and I'm content for him to keep on at
| it.  The only impact is on bandwidth, and that's really minor - we have
| heaps of capacity before we start to be affected on performance,  but I
| guess what I'm asking everyone is ... can you think of a malicious reason
| why this person might be doing this?   do you think I should be worried?
|
| Cheers,
| Mike Kear
| AFP Web Development,
| Windsor, NSW, Australia
| http://www.afp.zip.com.au
|
|
| >From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
| >To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
| >Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
| >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:44:46 -0500
| >
| >  had allot of friends in the old (BBS) days that used to run a script to
| >stay logged into role-playing games.  The script would issue repeating
| >commands to their characters in the games, allowing the characters to
| >advance in the game while the person was at work all day or whatever.
| >
| >Seems like it would be too expensive a strategy from an international
| >perspective, but if you have something else on your site/system that
| >rewards
| >constant user interaction...??
| >
| >D
| >
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
| >
| >It's Media House Live Stats v5.0
| >
| >And right now, the package says this about that particular user:
| >
| ><ip address>  NET: <name of his host computer>  RDNS: n/a
| >Origin:   Sao Tome    Time:   641 min   Hits / Kb:    412 / 6298.53Kb
| >
| >
| >So, for now he's been attached in a session for 641minutes, he's hit the
| >page 412 times, and downloaded 6.2MB.
| >
| >A "session" expires after fifteen minutes of inactivity, meaning no hits
| >have been made on the Web site for 15 minutes.
| >
| >So why would one computer want to keep hitting our site  hour after hour
on
| >the same page?
| >
| >
| >
|
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