On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote:
>
> This is a very good point, but AOL sure isn't the only provider out there
> and probably is one of the very few that do assign different IP numbers
> every request to a page..
>
AOL is the largest ISP, however. They account for 2.7% of our requests, and
that's at an academic site.
Anyway, that was only an example. There are lots of things that not only
can, but do, go wrong in the real world to invalidate the "sessions" model.
>
> No statistic, especially any web page statistic is 100% accurate.. It's
> something everyone has to keep in mind and realize.
>
I disagree. Analog's statistics are very nearly 100% accurate, because it
only reports on what happened at the server, not on what users did.
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