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Subject: Re: [Slashcode] apache logging and anonymous posting From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:43:21 -0400 At 3.29 -0400 2000.06.10, T Caleb Fauver wrote: >There is a thread on my website right now about the legalities of >anonymous posting. There is a lawsuit in Florida about anonymous users >being suboenaed to revel their true identity. Someone asked on my >website if I log the ips of anonymous posting. As of right now, I >do. I log everything. Now, I am not sure if I want to block the >logging of anonymous posting. There is a lot to consider in doing >so. But if I deceided I did want to do so, does anyone have any ideas >about the most efficent way of doing so? Or is it even feasible under >the slash code? At Slashdot, we delete the Apache logs every few days or something, and in the Slash code, everything in accesslog is deleted every few days, too: $I{dbh}->do( "delete from accesslog where date_add(ts,interval 48 hour) < now()" ); If you don't have the data, it can't be subpoenaed. ===