Personally, I'd be more worried about this claim on the web analytics site:<br>
<br>
"Incorporate web analytics into your everyday workflow, and meld it with
other important data through tight integration with Microsoft Excel."<br>
<br>
<shock><horror><br>
How DARE they take my open source web activities and dirty them with such atrocities as Excel!! the scoundrels.<br>
</horror></shock><br>
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K<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Polley</b> <<a href="mailto:zhasper@gmail.com">zhasper@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br>Senectus is correct.<br><br>You can get information about Akamai's services at <a href="http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html</a>.
Basically, they put proxies in major datacenters/major ISP hubs around
the world, and cache their customers sites there - so that, for
instance, when a Telstra customer visits the site of an Akamai
customer, the page is served off a Telstra server directly on Telstra's
backbone, ensuring very fast response times for the user.
<br><br>There's nothing malicious about this at all. This is not something Telstra have done, it's something the sites you mentioned (<a href="http://cnn.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
cnn.com</a> et al) have paid large some of money to have done, so that you get a better service.
</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c375801568e1e9_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Senectus .</b> <<a href="mailto:senectus@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
senectus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As far as I can tell, akamai technologies are an Internet<br>caching/streaming media delivery service that seem to be very popular<br>around the world.<br>They seem to have a very googlish philosophy about how they build
<br>
their hardware, with lots of common sense redundancies and smart<br>designs, and they're so good at it they're world wide.<br><br>seems innocent enough to me.<br><br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.modmeup.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<br></span></div><div><span class="sg">-- <br>There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004
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linux.conf.au</a><br>must.be.there