Take a look at the definition of "survey" on the Merriam-Webster site: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=survey It means to examine or appraise data. Literally asking questions of a real live person is just one possible way to collect data to appraise. Property surveyors survey land by collecting the data themselves, not asking people where they think the exact position of the land is. "I surveyed my computer" is a correct English statement that means I looked at it and probably checked to make sure everything is there and working properly. It's also likely I made a list of what hardware and software is present. In the case of the netcraft survey, they look at the internet themselves, they don't ask people what they're running. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. McDonough" To: Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason S" > Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security > > > > What makes you think it's based on a local region. It's not like the send > > surveys to website owners or hosts. Netcraft automatically polls the > sites > > in its survey the same way google automatically crawls sites to search. > > Well, their web site says they survey -their- clients, so that led me to > suspect that they surveyed their clients. > > --McD > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads