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Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:23:13 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> It is a way to track stats on who goes where. [...]
It's not to track stats on who goes where, although an evil server that wanted
to do that could probably do that. Its purpose here is to track how often the
where's are being gone to relative to one another and from what pages. It's
the inverse of the HTTP referrer.
--Todd
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 | | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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| (...) Well I suppose the nub of this is, if we accept LP's assertion that it is slowing things down, is the cost of doing this worth the benefit. Is the data being collected because it can be collected, or because it needs to be collected? Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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| As preface, for those that don't know what the LUGNET jump.cgi does... It is a way to track stats on who goes where. For example, when I type (URL) into a post, the web interface rendering technology shows the URL in different text color/font and (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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