Angelus ,'Damage'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I think that's probably the list of what sites the posters were at when they linked to us, no?
Yup, that's it. If by "linked" you mean "clicked through".
And groups.google.com means USENET, effectively.
edit: Yup, referrals, hosts they were at when they came here ...
I blame Shrift.
Hey! What did I do?
If the trolls are finding their way here because of me, then... then... I guess I'll delete all of my websites and go *poof* in a BNF snit of epic proportions!!!
t puts a gun to the BRQG's head
I'll Minear it, I swear I will!
Seriously, though, I can take some links down, but I think Variety has a wider readership than I do. I'm just sayin'.
The trolling has been surprisingly light. Just the two (or two and a half), really. I'm hoping that it's nothing more than 2002 getting its last licks in before we take it out to the back forty to put it out of its misery.
eriously, though, I can take some links down, but I think Variety has a wider readership than I do. I'm just sayin'.
Doubt that.
More interesting would be the IP addresses of the machines used to make the posts. Some web servers log that.
Sorry, Shrift, I was teasing. I really shouldn't, not in these parlous times.
the IP addresses of the machines used to make the posts. Some web servers log that.
I think we have that info too, but ita doesn't have the time or access to do anything with it right now, that's all.
I think she was quoting referrals from a pre-munged set of stats provided by the hosting company.
I think we have that info too, but ita doesn't have the time or access to do anything with it right now, that's all.
Yup. I can open some of the log from the 24th onwards here, but not all. And the IP addresses are unresolved, so it's really not going to be statistically informative.
The question is, can we associate and IP address with the posting of a message? Because what we really want to know is if two messages with different user IDs are from the same IP address. We don't need to resolve the IPs, just compare them.
This might be a lot of work. Perhaps it's not worthwhile.
It might be useful, in the future, to log the IP address of the poster in the database along with the post. I wonder if that's possible.
It'll take aligning posting time, referrer, and URL. It'll be a bit of work.
As for saving the IP address with the post, it gives me a bit of a big brother quease. I don't actually want anyone to know where I'm posting from. Also, if two users have the same ISP, they can easily have the same IP, depending on how the software works. I know AOL used to make it look like all of their subscribers were from VA.