On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > Speaking of statistics, I ran the web server statistics for the past > week and put them at the usual place [1]. The analysis program claims > that about 25% of all accesses to Mail-Archive are from "robots" like > Google. I don't know how much stock to put in those numbers; the tool > may be underreporting.
Yes, you should regard it as a lower bound, because it only includes known robots. You can get a more accurate estimate by downloading a more extensive list of robots from http://www.analog.cx/helpers/ -- but even then there may be robots which don't identify themselves. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
