Re: making the most of site visitor information

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On Sun Jul 06, 2003 08:26 pm MFJ wrote:
>
> A good reason to archive a list of site visitors. Just in case
> something really bad happens, it might be possible (for a price) to
> track down the perp.
>

I think you're slightly off the point here. You don't need an email
address to track down the perp. It will probably be a throwaway Hotmail
address anyway.

The IP address and hostname is what you use to trace back. That's why
when I surf out into the 'Here be dragons' areas of the internet I use
one of the many IP anonymiser processes to hide my true IP address. (I
don't use it all the time because of the slowdown while it bounces
around through the many links in the chain).

For 'special' and normal browsing my cookies are set to 'session-only'
of course, and deleted immediately after browsing and 'referrer' data
is always blocked.

BillK

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