Spiders

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I was looking at the list of online users (I like statistics) and noticed the following "users" online: MSNBot Spider Yahoo! Slurp Spider Google SpiderThey don't seem to have a profile either. Can anyone explain this? If random outside user agents can create "accounts" like this this must be some sort of bizarre security risk.

Also I'm not exactly sure if this is the right thread to post in but all the email notifications are from admin@perthatheists.org - is that right (it's the perthatheists.org domain name bit I'm not quite sure about - are all perthatheists.org notifications guaranteed to be valid?)

I haven't paid any attention to this until now for some reason - and I must admit the Spiders I have only noticed recently.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

@Crocodile: They're search engines. This is how Google etc get search indexes together.

By the way, Members' Lounge is not available to the search engines, so people may speak freely in there of things like problems with Xxxxxxxx Primary School's religious instruction program, without it getting back to the school (for example).

And with the Moderator's Special USB Eyeglass, we can see who sits typing in their undies.

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/28/password-underwear.jpg

Ah OK. I was thinking perhaps the search engines would "browse" as a guest.
BTW that's a typical Hollywood password underpants. In Hollywood Macs seem to be very popular.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I receive email notifications for this forum - whenever a thread is replied to or a new PM etc. - under that domain.