On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Philip Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>  If you want to take it a step further and only record a *click* if a person
> hasn't clicked this article before, you have several options. You can save a
> cookie on their computer saying they've clicked that article - of course
> they can delete the cookie, which may skew the count. Or you can save their
> IP address in a database (or file, if you want to choose that method) - only
> increment if that IP address hasn't clicked that article before. And of
> course, it's also very possible that their IP address can change. However,
> it should work pretty well.

Or they could share an IP with a few hundred other people so that all
of them combined only get counted one time.

Andrew

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