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- From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: *die* monitor.ece.uiuc.edu
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.223214.6769@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 22:32:14 GMT
- References: <1@nic.ddn.mil> <1@stormking.com> <thecure.713866573@munagin> <1992Aug16.080716.26252@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In <1992Aug16.080716.26252@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
- >You are absolutely totally wrong. monitor is used by admins throughout
- >the US to look up stats on various sites. The reason it's not the same
- >as using /links and /lusers is that it keeps a continuous record. IT
- >remembers EVERYONE in the US domains that has used IRC. It's got a database
- >with every subdomain.top-domain pair in the country from which someone
- >has used irc and it keeps track of exactly how many people from a
- >given domain have used irc. This is useful for finding out whether a
- >site has any local users and whether they need a server, etc etc.
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- As an admin who has pointed users at the UofI server site, I'm curious
- whether I can get this information myself. I'm not anything like an IRC
- guru. Please email if possible....
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- Pete Hartman Bradley University pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
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