<DIV>Paul,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Your automatic refresh theory is a good one. Unfortunately, if it did, the log would show a refreshing of the page every 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, etc. minutes. The log shows random times, not every exact few minutes from the original log in. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I doubt someone would keep the page open intentionally all day everyday, and manually hit refresh randomly throughout the day. Even if someone did, it would indicate a constant monitoring of the blog rather than working. Why keep refreshing a page you are not watching? 30,000+ file accesses is excessive, I know, that is why it was brought up. I know most people surf the net at work once in a while, but this a serious abuse of the privilege, IMHO. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the alternative theory though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan <BR><BR><B><I>Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE
class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Donovan Arnold wrote:<BR><BR>> Dale did not say Tom visited his blog 31,000 times. Dale said his <BR>> computer accessed 31,000 files in the last year. There is a <BR>> difference. Each time you visit a site, one to ten files can open up <BR>> at the same time. A photo for example can count as one file. It is <BR>> easy to determine the number of visits by looking at the time of the <BR>> access. If you have have 2 files accessed at the same time, that would <BR>> be one visit.<BR>> <BR>> Someone on that computer visits the Dale's Blog several times most <BR>> days of the week, as many as twenty or thirty times in a seven hour <BR>> period between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm.<BR>> <BR>> How can access that many files? Let's do that math;<BR>> <BR>> 20 visits a day, 5 times a week equals 100 visits a week. If each <BR>> visit opened 7 files
(including photos and graphs) that would be 700 <BR>> files opened in one week, over 46 weeks of work in the year, that <BR>> would equals 32,200 accesses.<BR>> <BR>> This pretty much is the habit of logging in to Dale's blog from that <BR>> IP address if you look at the log of the file as I have.<BR>> <BR>> If a person were to spend their entire six hour shift monitoring a <BR>> Blog, they could hit a site 20 times in a day.<BR>> <BR>> What is the point of this? The point is that someone on the taxpayer's <BR>> dime is monitoring a non related site, and is doing so against UI <BR>> policy. May I remind people also, that this is just one website being <BR>> accessed by that computer. Is it possible this same computer is going <BR>> to other sites as well during the day on the taxpayer's dime?<BR>> <BR>> I as a taxpayer, don't want to be paying someone to monitor Dale's <BR>> Blog. What a waste of UI resources.<BR>>
<BR>> Donovan<BR><BR><BR>If he simply loads the page, looks for a new blog entry, and leaves his <BR>browser open, then it's not that bad. He just hits "refresh" every so <BR>often, possibly between doing other things. Just refresh, read a new <BR>comment or two, then come back to it in a half-hour or so. It's also <BR>possible he's using RSS feeds if the blog provides them, so it's not <BR>necessarily clear that he is even reading them at the times they are <BR>accessed. His RSS reader might be configured to check for new content <BR>on a regular interval.<BR><BR>If he is spending a significant amount of time reading the blog 20 times <BR>a day every day instead of doing his work, then you may have a point. <BR>But let's not jump to conclusions just yet.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net
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