1. Curiously

    The thing I have trouble understanding, as an editor and purveyor of content, is users who want to go around something as simple as a counter script. I’m no longer upset about it, but I do wonder. Here are the facts from the server and the facts which I’ve shown to the world until now, when I’ll manually update them:

    from the server

    from the site

    As you can see, there is a deficit here of 178 between what the site is saying and what the reality is. That means 178 people didn’t want anyone to know they downloaded the document. By the way—not clicking the CGI doesn’t make you any more or less secure; the server logs what it’s going to log regardless of what I put on top of it, although I have no desire to review the logs except in cases where I’d like to map demographics—which region of the world, country, etc, gives us the most traffic.

    So then—please, in the future, refrain from entering your own link. In this case the most productive and communal thing you could do would be to access dispatch sixteen by means of this URL: http://litareview.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?dl/09/DISPATCH16.1109.BEB.pdf.

    I’m aware that the file naming scheme is a bit annoying. That will be tweaked starting with dispatch seventeen.

    Thanks for sticking with dispatch—all 500 of you!

    -phm