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Old 02-02-2005, 11:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I've just something i've never seen before, information collecting robots actually logged into the forum

this is a copy of who was online at 10.43pm (uk time)

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Old 02-02-2005, 11:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Yes thats right I allow robots to log into the forums and trawl the posts, this increases our exposure on search engines, there is more chance of our site up in searches as they are indexing all our post topics as well.
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Old 03-02-2005, 12:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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These little bits of software are called crawlers and without them search engines such as Google couldn't function.

Over the next few years more advanced software is going to appear which is going to make web searching even easier. There is an article about this if you are interested in the February edition of "Scientific American", which I can't comment on in detail, as I scanned through it yesterday, but have yet to read it properly.
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Old 03-02-2005, 03:57 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Well, that might explain why I got five identically addressed e-mails from a Holocaust Denial web page yesterday, spouting the rhetoric of such noted deniers as Mark Weber and Robert Faurisson. They were addressed to "Undisclosed recipients," so I was not being singled out. I slapped their return address on my block list, but after reading that garbage, I felt like vomiting. Not your fault, Lee...there are a lot of sick people out there who have access to computer technology. Children should not be allowed to play with adult toys.
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Well, that might explain why I got five identically addressed e-mails from a Holocaust Denial web page yesterday, spouting the rhetoric of such noted deniers as Mark Weber and Robert Faurisson. They were addressed to "Undisclosed recipients," so I was not being singled out. I slapped their return address on my block list, but after reading that garbage, I felt like vomiting. Not your fault, Lee...there are a lot of sick people out there who have access to computer technology. Children should not be allowed to play with adult toys.

This would not have come as a result of this forum, unless hacked which it has not been nobody but me can access the table with all your e-mail addressess in it. The bots that visit this site from Google and other locations can only trawl through what you can read, nothing else.
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Old 04-02-2005, 01:24 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I agree with Lee, these bots can't collect or hack that info, there would be uproar if they did

funny to see them logging in though, have they ever posted anything interesting? :P
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Lee, I did not think you would allow neo-Nazis to raid this place for addresses.
I don't know what e-mail address you have registered with Lee, but you can certainly find a link to an e-mail address via one of the web pages shown with your signature.

I have been away for a couple of days and havn't checked my e-mails. I wonder......
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Yes thats because I allowed that, but its totally secure for all other members.

Kiwiwriter I wa not suggesting your were accusing the site of being hacked, just merely pointing out the fact that its not the case.
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Yes thats because I allowed that, but its totally secure for all other members.

Kiwiwriter I wa not suggesting your were accusing the site of being hacked, just merely pointing out the fact that its not the case.
Sorry, I should have explained a bit more.

On another forum I visit, since late December someone has been making firly pathetic attempts to get me to reply to a message so that they can steal my password. The most pathetic thing of all is that they have been doing it via hotmail account which is on public display on the net if you know where to look, but is not the one I actually use for "proper" e-mails and is not the one registered with any forum.

I half expected my hotmail in box to be full of this stuff, because the person responsible for trying to steal my identity is either a well known flamer on the other side of the pond or one of several neo-Nazis I succeeded in upsetting on the net in December - in the sense that I set out to upset them and succeeded.
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