When one authors a web site you put in a robots.txt file which supposed
to keep bots out of areas of your board which are not relevant or you
don't want snooping around in.
On 12/12/2013 08:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
Judy and turq, I'm still amazed by that 61.5 statistic. And it was
interesting to me to translate that into the everyday context of FFL.
I wonder if there are any real 'bots who at least visit here.
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:18 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com"
<authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
You see, according to Barry, no post commenting on something he has
said has any meaning unless he validates it by responding to it. IOW,
it's entirely up to Barry whether one is a bot or not. ;-)
Barry bites:
> turq, does this mean that 942 members of FFL are bots?!
*/< < Absolutely. You can always tell the 'bots from the humans
because they're the ones who keep replying to posts from people who
don't reply to them. What would do that *but* a 'bot? :-) > > /*
> On Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:31 AM, TurquoiseB
turquoiseb@... wrote:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25346235
>