Watching your site's statistics

I'm sorry, but that would scare me like hell if someone from that place was looking at my website. I guess I wouldn't have anything to be worried about. If I were running a warez site or something like that then I'd just about have a heart attack

Ok, well I totally missed the question asked Have I ever had anyone interesting visit your site? Hmmm. Actually yes. A long time ago when I ran a Jaromir Jagr (hockey player) fan page, I got him to visit and endorse the site. It was awesome

Actually, I was a bit startled at first. But after starting that mantra ("I am not paranoid") and rationalizing, and I felt better.

And given your age, how could you have run somebody's fan site "a long time ago"? Was it a kindergarden project?

(On the other hand, in internet time last year is a long time ago...)

No, actually I started the site when I was 11, and then around age 12 I got it officially sponsored. It was pretty cool. But that was almost 3 years ago...

what happened to the site Justin ?

Look in your logs again...

hahahahahahahahahaha!

Richard

What's so funny Richard? Enlighten us... Oh, well the site was closed down because I had it on AOL (remember, this was a long time ago like 4 years, so not many had domain names) and then I got banned so my account was closed. I didn't feel like starting up the site again and trying to get all the traffic back, etc, etc...

Richard,

I'm guessing yours is the session with the Referring URL specified as "Where all the little people come from"...

Kristen

When do you think I should release the "browser" "Fairy Power Dust v2?"

Richard

As a web designer I always like to see large corporations in my logs. Lately I’ve seen IBM, Microsoft, RCA, NBC, and a few others. In the past year I’ve had the State of California (could be almost anything), CDF (California Department Fire), Macromedia, Whitehouse (again could be almost any sub-organization on the network), and some others that I don’t recall.

How can you tell when it is a large corporation or anything like that?

Depending on your stats program you can capture the host of your visitors. For example mine is currently user-2inip3i.dialup-mindspring.com. Large corporations usually have their own network connection (i.e. don’t use a ISP like Mindspring’s) so they are listed. For example ssle.sony.com is one I got Friday on a clients site.

I had an interesting visitor show up in the logs.

It happened to be a guy that was wanting to toy with me by spamming my 'signup' form for my Web Site.

Now, what he forgot to realise is that I use REMOTE HOST, REMOTE ADDRESS, and USER AGENT in my submission form.

So, I opened up the log files, cut out the parts that were relavant, and then fired off an e-mail [I would've called, but they were closed] to their head deparment proclaiming their abuse of service.

Another day, another person losing their internet access.

I'm resurrecting this old thread of mine, as I have a related question.

Several times per week (for the past few months) at my personal page listed in the sig below, I get a visitor very similar to today's:

Wed 1/31/2001 - 09:29:10 AM (<-- most days it's ~5:00 am)
IP: 12.79.92.216
host: 216.albany-15rs.ny-rochelle-park-05rs.nj.dial-access.att.net
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; AT&T WNS5.0)
Referrer: NoReferrer

Here's a link to the log itself:
http://www.isd.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/kwong/pagelog.cgi?display=logfile

This is very strange to me, as (a) I know no one in New Jersey/Albany/etc and (b) this page changes maybe once every few months -- there's no reason for anyone to check it so often (they check daily sometimes). I've surfed sites which list various bots and spiders and have found nothing at this address, and anyway it looks like a dial-up user.

It's so mysterious that I'm thinking of programming my page to pop up a window just for this particular visitor which asks "who are you? -- please email me!"

Would this be too weird a thing to do?!?!