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Firecracker A great lubberly boy
Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 245 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: Sooo many guest users |
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Hay I was just curious to know if anyone knows why there are so many guest users on today. |
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ASA Thou craven dread-bolted clotpole
Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 5222 Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Sooo many guest users |
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Firecracker wrote: | Hay I was just curious to know if anyone knows why there are so many guest users on today. |
Probably bots looking for all the advertising messages that we delete every day. _________________ Alan
Puzzletome : It is a puzzle to me too |
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Firecracker A great lubberly boy
Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 245 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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More then 50 at one time. I'm getting a little scared. _________________ ~ Firecracker & Lil Sparkler,
Dollylama, Holloweenie and Kates mom ~ |
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Stretham Forum Hardass
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 25109 Location: Here, there, somewhere, everywhere
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: Re: Sooo many guest users |
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ASA wrote: | Firecracker wrote: | Hay I was just curious to know if anyone knows why there are so many guest users on today. |
Probably bots looking for all the advertising messages that we delete every day. |
Yes. We have many spamming attacks on the site due to the generic nature of the phpbb software, although hopefully you don't notice too much thanks in large part to our extremely diligent Spam Assassins (like ASA). Mind you, 50 is awful lot of them.
[EDIT] Just noticed:
Site wrote: | Most users ever online was 158 on Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:39 am |
Not sure whether to be proud or worried.
Stretham _________________ Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?
I don't know and I don't care! |
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Firecracker A great lubberly boy
Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 245 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Check out our new high count of most people on line at one time. Most of those were online as guests. _________________ ~ Firecracker & Lil Sparkler,
Dollylama, Holloweenie and Kates mom ~ |
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SparkPlug Because I can
Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 11973 Location: Here!
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: |
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It's the Yahoo bots... they all seem to have different IP's for some reason (unlike the googlebots which all use the same one). |
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Titanium22 your chamber lye breeds fleas
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 12253
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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SparkPlug wrote: | It's the Yahoo bots... they all seem to have different IP's for some reason (unlike the googlebots which all use the same one). |
Yes, and Yahoo is also the e-mail address used by a lot of spammers when they register on the site. Gmail is another bad one, and Hotmail has also become very popular with spammers recently. I've banned at least 20 new registrations using Hotmail addresses in the last few days alone (fortunately before most of them have had a chance to post), and also banned a lot of names which come up regularly in e-mail addresses for people promoting dodgy pharmaceuticals, sex videos and so on.
T22 _________________ Puzzletome - for serious riddlers |
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