[MichaelCrawford]

Great - thanks for posting it.

To be clear I make a distinction between "web server log file analysis" and "web analytics". Unfortunately it has become fashionable to call damn near anything "analytics" even if it isn't, say in image processing applications.

I am completely cool with webmasters who analyze their own server logs.

What I'm not cool with, is independent websites that correlate their logs with each other. That is, I visit HN and I visit Soylent News. I don't want HN and Soylent sharing their logs about me in any way.