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In re: DNS and public disclosure:
Sorry to take this OT, but I just have to throw in my two cents. There is
a big difference between getting personal data (cookies, required logins,
etc.) and checking out what domain someone has dl'd from. The privacy
violation there is minimal, as nothing about the individual user (unless
they have a private domain, which is unusual) can really be deduced.
As far as public disclosure, I don't think the intent of the original
question was "are lego employees reading my pages" but rather "is the lego
corporation interested in alternate uses of their products." In my mind,
this is a perfectly legitimate use of the data, especially since the
corporation has already admitted (in as public a forum as Forbes magazine)
that they have investigated the situation. Certainly, discussing the
nature of that inquiry does no damage they have not already done.
my two cents-
Luis
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kevin Loch wrote:
>
> I've kept every http log file since the dawn of time (1994) but most
> don't have reverse lookups. I've never been tempted to do reverse
> lookups on the LEGO related pages. I have on some other sites I run
> for personal amusement. I have never access information (other than
> statistics) to anyone else however. Wouldn't that be unethical, a
> violation of the users privacy? The popular wwwstat script does this,
> and I have always had a problem with that. Of course most people may have no
> expectation of privacy and I'm in the minority.
>
> KL
>
> (followups to lugnet.publish)
>
> In lugnet.robotics, Luis Villa writes:
> > Well, Ralph, I'm not really sure- I've served 12967 pages of the HOWTO as
> > of today, so there are a lot of logs to go through. However, I can say
> > with certainty that it is not lego.com, as there are no records of any
> > hits on my site from there. I can look for others, if you have suggestions?
> > -Luis
> >
> > P.S. Among other notables that just happened to my eye, I have several
> > hits from MS, only one from forbes (not very thorough research, there),
> > and one from barclayscapital (Markus? are you prepping for an IPO?)
> >
> > P.P.S. I'm going to install webalizer to do a more thorough log analysis
> > this afternoon. If I find anything interesting vis a vis lego, I'll let
> > you know. (It is great to be your own ISP :)
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:05:08 GMT
> > > From: Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com>
> > > To: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
> > > Subject: LEGO Reverse DNS?
> > >
> > > Hi all...
> > >
> > > Just a quick question for those of you whose ISPs
> > > give you a reverse lookup of the DNS from which your
> > > websites have been hit.
> > >
> > > 1. What is the domain name that TLG shows up as when your
> > > site is hit by them?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > The train stops at the train station,
> > > The bus stops at the bus station,
> > > So why am I sitting at a work station?
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> >
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