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Aug. 1st, 2006 11:27 am
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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?

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Date: 2006-08-01 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peaceful-fox.livejournal.com
NO. That's move invasive than a spam email and I wouldn't like it one bit. I wouldn't ever dream of doing that, either.

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Date: 2006-08-01 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

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Date: 2006-08-01 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gmul.livejournal.com
Can't get many hits if he has time to ring all the visitors!

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Date: 2006-08-01 11:22 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com
You are not alone.

I'd use logs for getting some feel for the amount of traffic, finding out about unexpected referrers or unusual agent strings, pinning down the causes of 404s so I can fix them ... all sorts of things like that.

But I'd feel deeply uneasy if I thought someone was studying my entry in their log on an individual basis.

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Date: 2006-08-01 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-condition.livejournal.com
I was called once by the editor of a free online journal relevant to my work, who was basically panhandling for donations to keep his site going. I told him that up until then I might have considered paypal'ing him a few Euros, but by cold-calling me like that he'd lost any right to any money from me, ever.

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Date: 2006-08-01 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com
email, maybe, if I was looking for a web developer and one jsut happened to cross my log. but a phone call? very intrusive.

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Date: 2006-08-01 12:38 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2006-08-01 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-the-major316.livejournal.com
Wow. That is scary.

Luckily I think my phone number is being black listed by most cold callers because I *will* keep them on the phone for five minutes explaining that I haven't got a phone.

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