On 8/30/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
You forgot
// If you make a copy of $db on your laptop for testing, // we will flay the living flesh from your bonesand more importantly
// We are holding everyone on the planet hostage to ensure // that they never make backups of $db, but if something // happens to us, you're on the hook for that, too.
Well, you'd have to give instructions to anyone with shell access, too, and keep careful track of all . . . okay, but it would be roughly possible. We already do it for checkuser IPs.
One of us is being very obtuse here, but I'm not sure which.
Neither am I . . .
If I'm trying to count "approximate number of people who have viewed the page at least once", without possibly overcounting people who have viewed the page multiple times, then depending on the numbers it may be true that the server probably doesn't have to, but under other circumstances it might very well have to, and it's certainly strange to say that it "can't".
If you're only sending one view in every X to the view-counting server, then it doesn't know how many times you've viewed the page. It therefore can't exclude multiple consecutive views by the same IP from its count. Yes? No?