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08-24-2007, 02:19 PM
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Jack Burton
 Join Date: May 31, 2002
Location: Ireland
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Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
They all seem to be browsing user profiles too. Most are from Yahoo but some are from google. I know that search engines routinely archive new posts to add to their engines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Slurp) but it seems they're more interested in user profiles than the forums themselves. Email addresses for spamming maybe?
Look here btw http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/online.php Scroll down to where it lists who's online, and then click current users.
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08-24-2007, 03:23 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
 Join Date: August 22, 2003
Location: Ohio, Go Tribe
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
Thats kinda wierd.
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08-24-2007, 03:54 PM
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Jack Burton
Join Date: May 31, 2002
Location: Ireland
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
It's fallen to 1 atm, when I posted there was 11 and 10 of them were browsing profiles, with that single one searching the forums.
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08-24-2007, 04:02 PM
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Jack Burton
Join Date: March 31, 2001
Location: The zephyr lands beneath the brine.
Age: 41
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
We had some 60-70 of them not too long ago.
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08-24-2007, 04:29 PM
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Lord Ao
 Join Date: May 15, 2005
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
I know I was on last night with around 40 searching...
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08-24-2007, 05:42 PM
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Ironworks Webmaster
Join Date: January 4, 2001
Location: Lakeland, Florida
Age: 52
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
They are just keyword bot spidering the site. Since the URL is new, it detected it, and now is hitting all new possible links. It's normal, NO ONE can get your email address, as they are hidden.
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08-24-2007, 05:58 PM
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Lord Ao
Join Date: May 15, 2005
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
Well that's quite the relief. Thanks for the clearing-of-up
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08-24-2007, 06:14 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
Join Date: August 22, 2003
Location: Ohio, Go Tribe
Age: 39
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
I've never understood why they call them spiders though, it almost insinuates something sinister. Atleast I wont get any more spam, I hav enough already.
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08-24-2007, 06:21 PM
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Quintesson
 Join Date: September 12, 2001
Location: Ewing, NJ
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Re: Exactly what are these 11 bots i'm seeing browsing the forums?
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