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

by "Tom Keatley" <tom(at)piedpiper.com.au>

 Date:  Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:44:53 +0800
 To:  "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>,
<darrell(at)webctr.com>,
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  hotmail
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 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?

Could this just be that the user (for whatever reason) has taken a liking to
your page and has set it up as his/her home page? that way they would always
return there when logging on/off or going " home" after browsing?

It could explain it ....

Tom Keatley

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