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> lowfat# telnet www.webstuff.apple.com 80
> Trying 17.255.216.53...
> Connected to webstuff.apple.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> HEAD / HTTP/1.0
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 07:03:47 GMT
> Server: Apache/0.8.8
> Content-type: text/html
> Content-length: 1891
> Last-modified: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 20:42:01 GMT
>
> Brian


1) http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/Reports/951101/ALL/

be aware of the double counting problem:

http://foo.com/
http://www.foo.com/

being the same site (same IP), but by the simplest applied heuristic
for uniqueness (cat hostnames | sort | uniq) they are 'different'.
we're looking into ways to improve the uniqueness checking, but for
the time being we just cope. BE AWARE OF THIS.

our justification is that we publish all the results and so other
people are able to make better sense of them if they desire to.

2) http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/Reports/951102/ALL/

only includes sites which were in previous surveys. we lose the
more up-to-date information pertaining to sites that were announced
after we built the first dataset some 4 months ago. the double-counting
issue mentioned in (1) still pertains. BE AWARE OF THIS.

this URL (951102) is provided as a curtesy to interested parties but,
will more than likely be discontinued shortly. DO NOT MAKE REFERENCE
TO IT.

3) a much tighter heuristic for uniqueness will be applied in subsequent
surveys. we may also revisit old results and we-work them with the new
heuristic in place. *IF* we do this then the re-worked results will be
displayed *separately*, we will not attempt to modify information which
appears in alredy-published URLs.

4) we are Borg, you will be assimilated.

Cheers,
Ay.