RE: User connected ...

Possibly, but the one major problem with that argument lies in the
regularity of the hits.  Mike mentioned that the hits occur every 5
minuted, 24 hours a day.  If indeed this we someone who had their homepage
set to Mike's client homepage, the intervals between hits would be irregular.

For example, the first hit might come at 3:03 PM, the next at 4:25 PM, then
7:01 AM.  Not to mention, the hit patterns would follow human activity
patterns, so activity would drop off after midnight until seven in the
morning or so.  You would also get a fairly clear idea of whether the page
requestor was working from their worksite or home.

If they were updating from work, the requests would plateau during their
local work hours, then drop off afterward.  Similarly, if they were working
from home, the requests would drop off during the workday, and peak
afterhours.

So...I don't think the homepage theory works.

I fascinating problem for sure.

Zack

PS> FWIW, I agree with the various "bot" theories.  It's surely a
monitoring service someone (i.e. the consumer rights group) set up to keep
tabs on the server.

At 08:20 AM 3/15/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I agree with the last part of this message it is probaly that a company has
>this set as there web page on a server run computer so that anytime a
>terminal opens you get a hit to your page and there are probally several
>different terminals with users having the same address that when they open a
>browser you get a hit.

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