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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.
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