----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Spodick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Support for analog web log analyzer" <analog-help@lists.meer.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] One Record Per IP Address
At 12:18 PM -0500 28/12/2004, Sarah Nussbaum wrote:Is there any way to compile the log data so that I would only get data for each IP address once in the Report. This way I would be able to get more accurate results as to how many users use Netscape....
I don't have an answer to your question, but be aware that this will introduce other inaccuracies. For example, our campus has about 5000 IP addresses assigned to computers. Some are static and some are dynamic. Dynamic ones get reassigned so the computer using it today may not be the same computer using it tomorrow. More significantly, all of our connections to the Internet are routed through a couple of dozen proxy servers, so you will actually only see those addresses rather than the ones assigned to the user's computer.
Statistics are such unreliable things... :(
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