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List:       kde-www
Subject:    Re: KDE web logs for research
From:       Christopher Molnar <molnar () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-07 1:59:04
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Before anyone says yes or no - remember web logs contain browser info,  
IP addresses, and more. I am not sure this would not violate privacy  
statements and rights. I know I would not allow any web logs off of my  
servers for this purpose.

Just my 2 cents worth.

-Chris

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 09:37 PM, A. Gunes Koru wrote:

>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> I am a member of the Software Engineering research group in Southern
> Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA. We are performing research in  
> the
> area of web engineering.
>
> Since we are trying to do empirical research, we need to use web logs  
> as
> our primary data source (such as the ones produced by Apache web  
> server).
> So far, we have only obtained the web logs from our own engineering
> school. The companies we have contacted were highly sensitive about  
> such
> data because of their marketing and business concerns.
>
> I thought that since KDE is an organization about an open source  
> project,
> maybe it could be possible to obtain such data from KDE. Of course, the
> shared data will be used only for research purposes.
>
> I would deeply appreciate if you could help us on this issue or refer  
> to
> someone who might be more related in the KDE project. My contact
> information is below. Please do not hesitate to ask further questions  
> or
> give further comments.
>
> Sincerely
>
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