[Summary-Talk] Re. Lots of trash in reports

["Phil St. Romain" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

see http://shalomplace.org:9000/report/14 for trash in reports.

>Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:33:38 -0400
>From: Jason Linhart <summary@summary.net>
>Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Lots of trash in reports
>
>Robot filtering isn't working because you don't have agent information
>in your log files. You should look into switching your server to a log
>format that includes agent information as that information is used in
>several of the reports. You are also missing referrer information, which
>is even more useful.

>It is also curious that your server is counting requests to all of those
>requests as valid. Most servers would return 404 - Not Found errors in
>response to requests for those strange URLs (which would keep them out
>of the report you pointed us at). Perhaps there is some server setting
>that you have misconfigured.
>
>Jason

Thanks, Jason.  My only server setting for logs is how often to 
archive and where they are located.  I do have 5 subdomains pointing 
to the same log files, but that shouldn't matter.  As you say, I 
should be getting 404 errors on those requests.

Baffling.  Phil
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