Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/16/07 00:03

Hadron wrote:
> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> writes:
>
>>> And I pity those clients.
>> You will never convice these sort of people. They, without a clear
>> understanding of how the protocol actually works, will continually insist
>> that you can tally "current viewers". I've seen it time and time
>> again. I've
>
> The viewer is the session for crying out loud.
>

First strike. A view is not a session.

>> even explained to some of them that they will completely miss the viewer
>> that has obtained a copy of their page from a corporate proxy (with of
>> course no access at all to their server), to no avail. They simply will not
>> understand. It's right up there with "N people have visited this site
>> since..." :-)
>>
>> Just let them put their meaningless counters on their web sites. It does no
>> harm, providing, as you say, they are not telling their "clients" that it
>> has meaning.
>
> I am frightened that you seem unable to understand such simple concepts.
>

Second strike. That you have no idea what you're talking about - and
refuse to believe those with more experience and knowledge than you.

> You know, I think you should suggest to banks that they dont really know
> if someone is there and should end all session based online banking.
>
> Or they could do the SENSIBLE thing and ASSUME in many cases that the
> fact that someone opened the session means that there is a HIGH
> PROBABILITY that someone os THERE. Possibly implement a time out. Oh,
> they do jus that.
>

Third strike. Brining in a completely irrelevant topic into this
discussion.

Three strikes. YOUR OUT!

> Idiot.

Agreed 100%. You ARE an idiot.


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