Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> I'm using Analog on an Intranet server, and while I was testing some
> configuration changes recently, I noticed that some of the referrers in
> my Referrer Report are from External sites, including AltaVista and
> Hotmail. I can understand the Hotmail referrers, because someone may
> have included an internal URL in an e-mail, and followed the link from
> the Hotmail site, but I can't figure out why I'd have any AltaVista
> referrers, or any of the other list of external sites. (MSNBC.com,
> intel.com, among a list of over a hundred such referrers).
>
> Most of our users are using IE4 as their browser - does anyone know of a
> reason why some of my hits seem to include what must be spurious
> referrers?
Off hand, two options come to mind. (a) You've got some of the wrong log
files in your 'Intranet' report. (b) Your internal users are using things
like my.altavista.com or my.msnbc.com to setup custom personal start pages
that include links to internal information on the Intranet. (b) Could
potentially be a security risk (though, I assume you've firewalled the
Intranet) because it stores referrences to internal documents on enternal
servers. If this is a risk you can afford (as risky as sending those
references in hotmail.com accounts) then there's no worry. Otherwise you may
need a new company policy. :)
HTH,
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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