Thus far, things seem to be back to normal. I'm all caught up, and haven't gotten The Error Message once.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Jessica - Sep 22, 2003 12:30:53 pm PDT #5059 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kristen - Sep 22, 2003 12:37:53 pm PDT #5060 of 10000
did they say when they implemented it?
No clue. I asked but didn't get an answer on that one. I'll have to ask again.
This is just freaking annoying because it makes no sense. And my tooth hurts.
ETA: I kind of wish we would start getting error messages again. While they're watching. It's like when you have a noise in your car and you take it to the mechanic...and it goes away.
Liese S. - Sep 22, 2003 2:36:36 pm PDT #5061 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Not only is it not erring, but it seems way faster than usual. Is this anyone else's impression?
Kristen - Sep 22, 2003 2:44:41 pm PDT #5062 of 10000
ita, can you tell me or email me and let me know how you blocked spiders? Spiders seem to be the only possibility anyone can come up with for last night's insanity.
helentm - Sep 22, 2003 2:44:56 pm PDT #5063 of 10000
Religion isn't the cause of wars. It's the excuse. - Christopher Brookmyre
Maybe the board has achieved sentience and is trying to drive us crazy.
Rob - Sep 22, 2003 2:45:36 pm PDT #5064 of 10000
I'm thinking it's Moloch the Corrupter.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2003 2:59:14 pm PDT #5065 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey Kristen, you still need that -ma? Because there's some on the way, just FYI. t /natter
Typo Boy - Sep 22, 2003 5:23:57 pm PDT #5066 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
As I understand it, normal spider blocking does not really block spiders. You can put a spider.txt or some such (I forget the exact name of the file) in a directory and well behaved spiders such as those from google and most major search engines will go away. But this does not block them, and malicious or simply ill behaved spiders and bots will igore it.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2003 5:39:00 pm PDT #5067 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What DCJ said.
robots.txt, in fact.
We can only hope the 'bots play nice.
Beverly - Sep 22, 2003 6:55:23 pm PDT #5068 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
So, in effect, robots and spiders and...bots, oh my, come in and shake signs at us, going, "Ooga Booga!"
And then we hold up a sign that says, "Sorry spider-bot-things, we're blocking you."
This is how it works?