stalked

[ramtops]

I've just had a phone call from someone. "Oh, you'll be surprised to get this call, I expect".

yes - I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and what I thought of them.

now, I know that web logs catch this information - and indeed, we capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs - I think that's a real invasion of privacy.

am I alone?

Comments

[wruf.livejournal.com]

That's really quite nasty actually. Analysing web logs is an important part of developing a website but I'd never pick out the visitors one by one and then hunt them down. What did you tell him?

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I was so taken aback, I didn't tell him anything - I said I looked at hundreds of sites every day, and that his didn't ring any bells. And then when I checked it, while he was on the phone, I remembered why, and told him.

what I *should* have told him was that he was invading my privacy, and to fuck right off.