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) harribobs, jamesicus, Googlebot, sappernz, Ask Jeeves
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.
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.
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.
Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Feb 3 2005, 02:57 PM 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. [post=31178]Quoted post[/post] 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.
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
Originally posted by Lee Wisener+Feb 3 2005, 01:06 PM-->(Lee Wisener @ Feb 3 2005, 01:06 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Kiwiwriter@Feb 3 2005, 02:57 PM 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. [post=31178]Quoted post[/post] 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. [post=31180]Quoted post[/post] [/b]Lee, I did not think you would allow neo-Nazis to raid this place for addresses. I suspected it might have been a hacker. Obviously, you were not hacked, so I got the mail from some other group or robot. I apologize for any accusations I have made and any discomfort I have caused you or the board. Sadly, there are a lot of sick people out there. It's good to know there are none here.
Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Feb 4 2005, 03:55 PM 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......
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.
Originally posted by Lee Wisener@Feb 5 2005, 01:56 PM 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. [post=31212]Quoted post[/post] 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.
Well, I found out last night that the neo-Nazi e-mail I got went to the administrator of a mailing list I'm on from a university, where I get the writer's essays, so the neo-Nazi must have hacked into that particular mailing list, so it had nothing to do with anything here. As I said...too many sick people in the world.
On a quiet Sunday afternoon, having already achieved the day's main tasks, and then deciding to have a good look through the new layout of 'WW2 Talk' for the first time, I happened to notice the site is still being monitored by 'robots' (15 in total). Here are the figures: Members Online Now Total: 62 (members: 8, guests: 39, robots: 15) Basically, there are almost twice as many 'robots' online compared to 'members' (8). Presumably none of these robots will apply to become a forum member?
