Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:05:09 -0600
From: George Brown <GBROWN@media.utah.edu>
To: jellicle@inch.com
Cc: don@media.utah.edu, Mcleary@media.utah.edu, shess@media.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Log Files


Dear Mr. Sims,

I have spoken to Don Porter and he is examining the records and the
process to see if he can determine why (or how) the data might have
become corrupted. Regarding the amount of data available in the log
files, as noted in our response to the Records Committee dated June
17, 1998 (Item 3, paragraph 6) and specifically discussed in the
hearing, the Network only maintains 30 days of data.  This is a
constantly revolving process and means that as a new day's data is
logged, it overwrites the data in the log of approximately 30 days
previous.  This process is required because of the extensive amount
of disk space necessary for the logs.  As earlier noted, the logs
contain the last 30 days of data.  The Network does not have log
records of any kind beyond the 30 day period.  We were ordered to
give you the log file records that we have in our possession and have
totally complied (as soon as the corrupted records problem can be
resolved).  One further note would be appropriate, the log files are
maintained so that the log records for all requests for access are
maintained for seven (7) days and only the log records for those
sites for which access was denied are maintained for the full 30
days. Since your stated interest has been in discovering sites which
were denied by the filtering process, and which (again as you
stated) 'any classroom teacher would believe to be non-objectionable
for their classroom', providing the information for all sites which
were denied (over the past 30 days) seems very appropriate. I hope
that the corruption problem can be quickly resolved to your
satisfaction.

If you have further questions, please contact me.
George Brown