Re: Counter & Statistics (fwd)

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Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:08:38 -0400


Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> writes:
> Question is, how to do it right ?
> Just put up a page that lets you query the faqs.org access_log and
> referer_log ?

Privacy concerns would be an objection to that I think, both for FAQ authors
and for users of the archive.

> Generate a summary each month for each FAQ and mail it to the authors?

Perhaps you could do this, but only for those FAQs whose authors had
specifically requested it. That should reduce your workload and avoid
the problem of not having good mail addresses for the authors...

regards, tom lane