guests

• guests
  Posted by oldnewbie on 21 Dec, 2004 02:14
• at 2:12 am there are 7 members online (hi).....but also 43? guests.....who are these people? some members on other computers i guess and some lurkers but.....43?  :hscratch:
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• #1 Reply
  Posted by davepeck on 21 Dec, 2004 06:39
• duane - a lot of these \'guests\' are actually bots that are just crawling the site for search engine indexing.. so at any given time, there could be several bots from msn, yahoo, google, and other search engines all over the site in order to add data to their search engines..
  
  hope that makes sense..
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• #2 Reply
  Posted by oldnewbie on 21 Dec, 2004 08:25
• sense?......yeah sure.....but...for instance there are 5 members and 3 guests right now.....43 just seemed like a lot more than normal....thanks for answering though  
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• #3 Reply
  Posted by davepeck on 21 Dec, 2004 08:29
• the bots are party animals.. up all night, sleep all day..
  
  plus, they probably heard you were online..
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• #4 Reply
  Posted by oldnewbie on 21 Dec, 2004 08:33
• up all night, sleep all day......sounds like a song....or a firemans life.....if i sign on as a guest will it keep them from finding out?
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