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:
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    > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25346235
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