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On 3/25/2013 10:54 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 25/03/13 13:34, Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <kiphri$tch$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/25/2013 5:42 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
>>> > In article <kipfqa$ib5$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> > Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> You can't track visitors by IP.  A visitor's IP can change at any
>>> >> time, and it is very possible to have multiple visitors from the same
>>> >> IP address (i.e. even at my home we have 5 computers but only 1 IP
>>> >> address).  An IP is valid for one conversation (i.e. a page request
>>> >> with all of it's images) but nothing more.
>>> >
>>> > 1) In both instances above you mean "e.g." and not "i.e."
>>>
>>> Who Cares?
>>>
>>> >
>>> > 2) In the above, "its" does not need an apostrophe (are you a grocer?)
>>>
>>> Who Cares?
>>
>> Anyone with two brain cells to rub together, ISTM.
>>
>>
>>> > 3) A user's IP address is typically allocated when they reboot their
>>> > ADSL router (e.g. mine has been up for 128 days), and will remain
>>> > unchanged for that duration. Unless, that is, they asked their ISP
>>> for a
>>> > static IP address in which case it won't change at all.
>>>
>>> I do not use DSL so when does mine change?
>>
>> Who says that it does?
>>
>>> > 4) So even with a dynamic IP address, to say that it's valid for one
>>> > page request only is complete nonsense.
>>>
>>> Can you quote where he said "it's valid for one page request only"?
>>
>> Where he said:
>>
>> "An IP is valid for one conversation (i.e. a page request with all of
>> it's images) but nothing more."
>>
> in reality its valid for a whole series of page requests.If the browser
> does persistent connections
>
> "In HTTP 1.1, all connections are considered persistent unless declared
> otherwise.[1] The HTTP persistent connections do not use separate
> keepalive messages, they just allow multiple requests to use a single
> connection. However, the default connection timeout of Apache 2.0
> httpd[2] is as little as 15 seconds[3] and for Apache 2.2 only 5
> seconds.[4] The advantage of a short timeout is the ability to deliver
> multiple components of a web page quickly while not consuming resources
> to run multiple server processes or threads for too long.[5]"
>
>

Which has absolutely nothing to do with DHCP and dynamic IP address 
assignment (which is handled by an entirely different server, 
independent of the web browser).

But of course you're too stoopid to understand there IS a difference - 
much less what that difference is.

>
>
>> Note that I've left his egregious hayseed grammatical errors in.
>>
>
>


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Jerry Stuckle
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jstucklex@attglobal.net
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how to save the visitors ip addresses nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 01:44 -0700
  Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses "Olaf S." <thesys@gmx.de> - 2013-03-25 12:11 +0100
  Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2013-03-25 11:13 +0000
    Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 04:36 -0700
  Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 08:28 -0400
    Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-25 12:42 +0000
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-25 06:02 -0700
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-25 13:09 +0000
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 09:26 -0400
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-25 09:55 -0700
            Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 01:44 +0000
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-25 13:34 +0000
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-25 14:54 +0000
            Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 13:24 -0400
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-25 10:03 -0700
            Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 01:57 +0000
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 13:25 -0400
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-25 19:15 +0100
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 09:22 -0400
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2013-03-27 01:29 -0400
  Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-03-25 19:39 -0400
    Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-03-26 00:21 +0000
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 20:55 -0400
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2013-03-26 01:01 +0000
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 02:10 +0000
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 02:01 +0000
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-03-26 03:10 +0000
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 15:18 +0000
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-03-25 22:39 -0700
    Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-03-25 18:31 -0700
      Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 21:47 -0400
        Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-03-25 19:34 -0700
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 23:27 -0400
            Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-26 09:10 +0000
              Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-26 06:16 -0400
              Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-26 11:42 +0100
                Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-26 11:47 +0000
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-25 23:38 -0400
            Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-03-25 21:13 -0700
              Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-26 06:16 -0400
          Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 15:10 +0000
    Re: how to save the visitors ip addresses The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 01:43 +0000

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