LOL - just looked at the 'who's online' info for the first time...

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
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Hope that you're not charged for bandwidth by the connection - Yahoo's spider seems to be taking up an inordinate number of connections!

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

I never noticed anything other than usernames in that box. What did it say for the Yahoo spider Zeb?

 

Yer mad baba - check it out now - there's about ninety connections from the yahoo bot!

Its 'Yahoo Slurp Spider'

 

Got it now. I was looking at the box on the home page.

 

Only so much you can do about it.

Question is, is it a good thing or a bad thing...

 

Hmmm I see what you mean Zeb, That Yahoo bot is everywhere. Does anyone still use Yahoo?

 

Ya-Who?

 

It is supposed to be a good thing, gets your pages on their search engine for free, however if they go through a forum without any form of control in place they could end up in lifting up any personal info that may have been posted in a forum.

 

...and thats why you shouldn't post personal info on the forum...

 

Also theres the google adsense spider the MSNBot spider are all on the forum usually. You could control where the spider isnt allowed to access and how many connections its allowed by a robots.txt file

 

I was quite supprised at the number of guests!

Si

 

so my new email address is [email protected]