Uh.............someone?.....................

[irknow1]

I may have asked this before, and if I did, I don't remember anyone answering my question, so, at the risk of revealing that "IDARNWELLDON'THAVE OLD TIMERS!" I'll just ask again................:question:

WHO ARE "GUESTS" and why don't they just join and post with the rest of us?:confused: OHMYGOSH!--------:shame::shame:

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are they peeping toms????:punish:

aaaarrrggghhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!:flame:

SERIOUSLY, do people just come to this site to monitor
what is said here? :limp: if so, WHY?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

just wondering.................'cause imagine if we had
the 85 guests logged in and communicating with us....
that would be great wouldn't it?

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[PrezLeefun]

Guests are folks who are just looking but have not joined. They of course scope us out and some report back to DU, FSTDT to mock us.

[Neil Peart]

Probably just Google Spiders.

[irknow1]

this is a job for...............

DRUM ROLL PLEASE................uh, I SAID DRUM ROLL PLEASE....
.......HEY ! DRUM ROLL PLEASE !!!!!!......

(INSERT DRUM ROLL HERE.................0



...........DR. DOOM !............

BLOW 'EM AWAY DOC !
:claps::claps::roar::roar::thumb::rotflmbo::D:clap s:

nasty little trolls......allof'em!:flame:

:D:D:rolleyes::rolleyes::biggrin::biggrin:

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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

When there are large numbers of "guests" it usually means spider-bots ... search engine feelers, not actual "visitors." It's nothing to sweat.

[DesertFox]

Why all the ................. and ------------------ ?

[TeenageRepublican]

I really don't know about that. It kind of reminds me of an obsessive monkey hitting the same key over and over again.

[DoctorDoom]

A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot or - especially in the FOAF community (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(software)) - web scutter[1]) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms (Kobayashi and Takeda, 2000).

This process is called web crawling or spidering. Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a website, such as checking links or validating HTML code. Also, crawlers can be used to gather specific types of information from Web pages, such as harvesting e-mail addresses (usually for spam).

A web crawler is one type of bot, or software agent. In general, it starts with a list of URLs to visit, called the seeds. As the crawler visits these URLs, it identifies all the hyperlinks in the page and adds them to the list of URLs to visit, called the crawl frontier. URLs from the frontier are recursively visited according to a set of policies.Web crawler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler)

The major ones are from Google and Yahoo.

Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the web (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897&topic=8460)

Yahoo! Slurp—Yahoo!'s Web Crawler (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/)

The majority of users on any board are typically bots. They can be blocked, but it defeats the purpose of a website that wants visitors.

[irknow1]

Why all the ................. and ------------------ ?


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(the above dashes are for seperation)

other dashes, dots, etc I may exhibit on a post are for "dramatic pause",
"emphasis of a specific point", (and sometimes, i'm listening to that voice
in the back of my brain...........................(dramatic pause)................
you know, the one i turn to for an intelligent conversation when the need
arises.:ooo::ooo:


The experts tell us that one out of every three people in the United States
have a mental disorder.

well..............(dramatic pause)..................I'M OK, AND SO AM I, (but we
aren't real sure about you) :D:D:rolleyes:

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