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.

---Bryon
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Strickland <Jay_Strickland(at)pobox.com>
To: 'Mike Kear' <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: RE: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?


> Mike,
>
> Another two possible explanations for you.  One of my clients uses
> data from a third party website with is updated "roughly" every
> two weeks.  When I say roughly I mean it b/c the website can
> be off by a +/- a week and a half in their updates.  Fortunately
> for me they don't change the page other than when they do the
> updates.
>
> In order to keep from having to check the site every day I
> simply put together an expect script that runs in cron every
> morning and checks the last-modified date on the file.  You could
> determine if this was happening by looking at the times and
> trying to determine a pattern.
>
> Yet another option.....they have your site set as their homepage
> and therefore every time they open a browser you get a hit
> with them looking at your homepage.  Probably more likely
> than the above.......
>
> Cheers,
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay Strickland Jay_Strickland(at)pobox.com
> What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with
diligence.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kear [SMTP:choicemag(at)hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:31 PM
> To: darrell(at)webctr.com; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> 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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