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.
Whoa. Good myth.
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Kristen - Sep 22, 2003 2:44:41 pm PDT #5062 of 10000
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?
Typo Boy - Sep 22, 2003 7:00:48 pm PDT #5069 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.
Umm - yeah. But google and the legit ones will. It is like a no-trepassing sign. Most people won't enter the posted property. But a sign, by itself, keeps out nobody who chooses to ignore it.
Kristen - Sep 22, 2003 9:08:08 pm PDT #5070 of 10000
So we could theoretically be getting spidered by spiders of ill repute. Which is amusing but probably only inside my head.
Speaking of inside my head, I'm getting another tooth yanked tomorrow so I will be out of touch most of the day. Hopefully, the board will still be here when I get back.
Typo Boy - Sep 22, 2003 9:19:10 pm PDT #5071 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.
Not entirely funny. The most common spiders and bots of ill repute are sent by spammers harvesting e-mail addresses.