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Bots!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:19 pm
by William
The following was being displayed on the title page of the forum a short time ago.

Registered users: Google [Bot], MSN [Bot], William, Yahoo [Bot]

Argh!

:)

William Overington

17 November 2008

Re: Bots!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:23 pm
by Erwin Denissen
They are true bots that are noticed by phpBB3. By identifying them, they are no longer included in the visitor count, so hopefully those figures will have more meaning in the future.

Re: Bots!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:57 pm
by Dick Pape
I believe I understand bots, but what's a spider?

Re: Bots!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:16 pm
by Erwin Denissen

Re: Bots!

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:15 am
by William
Wow, just now there are seven registered users online!

Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Exabot [Bot], Google [Bot], MSN [Bot], William, Yahoo [Bot]

William Overington

14 March 2009

Re: Bots!

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:28 pm
by Dave Crosby
Bots and spiders testify to the value of and interest in this site.

Re: Bots!

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:43 am
by Dick Pape
Questions and Queries have slowed down recently ever since those bots got interested... It'll start up again when Erwin gets a new version out!!
Is that an incentive or what?! Hah.