Tally, This means that they are likely intercepting traffic on their own network, getting statistics off their own, Proxy, Firewalls or they have a traffic analyser of some sort that monitors an ethernet link in their perimeter network. Not really hard to achieve and not illegal. Web analysers read into the payload in order to get the URL's. You'll find that they had a list of those as well. You can likely do the same kind of research with your firewall as well. Cu AnthonyB >Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:29:33 -0800 (PST) >From: Tally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Web statistics ? > >I have a very busy web server for a client and >it is well protected by a firewall etc. However we >find that some of the internet statisticians have >been >able to guage the number of hits that the web >server >is getting each day. >The statisticians contacted us as they were curiuos >to get more info about our clients business. The >purpose >was basically marketing driven ie advertisements.. > >I wanted to know as to how can one gather info >about the web hits and traffic analysis for other >sites. first what is the technology and second is >it >legal ? I think it is encroaching upon someone's >privacy. However the statistician says that it is >only >the data part that is private, not the header part >that >has the source and destination Ip address. > >please email me your thoughts on this issue. > >thanks >tally - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
