On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:08:29 GMT "J.S.M.Whitaker"
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> And a good thing too. Well done whoever had the foresight to
> include that provision.
> On 16 Apr 99, at 20:15, Martin Hamilton wrote:
> > One thing we can't do, BTW, is redirect people to different content -
> > e.g. send them to HENSA rather than webtechs.com. That's expressly
> > forbidden by the SLA, and has its own set of legal problems :-)
Unfortunately, that appears to prevent the HENSA cache being used a prime
social science research tool, on which we could all book time like
astronomers book time on telescopes. It would be really useful if we could
prepend, once every 10,000 pages returned, a single-question form at the
top of the page returned. Jacob Palme used a similar technique to research
e-mail use during the 1980s, with quite interesting results. One week he
would ask "How important is the message you have just read compared to what
came in your paper mail today?", next week he would ask a different
question, and so on. On your own server you could do that with
mod_rewrite, but the interesting results would come from a guaranteed
random sample of all university web browsing.
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