View Full Version : Who are the Guests viewing the site
alexmaclennan
25-08-06, 18:28
Everytime I log on there seems to be several guests viewing the site - where in Cyberspace do they come from?..... and what brings them here? Photos, rants about shared ascents, Glesga banter?? Ding's Crap Jokes :D (I see your online just now). Who knows :confused:
What about a Guestbook in Jimmy's?
Alex
dive granny
25-08-06, 18:33
I think they are people who have not joined. They can look at the site but not post or reply to anything. Am i getting the hang of this technology thing?
One of the girls in my work had a wee look at my posts. so I think I am right.
alexmaclennan
25-08-06, 20:59
Hi DG - yes guests are unregistered viewers, as the site is open to anyone who has internet access to view - but who are they? - my guess is odds & sods surfing net at random, or divers from who knows where.
Alex
Daddy's Little Princess
26-08-06, 00:21
I think sometimes it looks like me and Eddie are guests cos I use his computer and it logs us out...so if we just have a read and don't post anything I don't always log in...mystery solved?!?
bubblemaker
26-08-06, 00:31
hah..princess..it still amuses me!! from now on you shall be known as 'DLP' !!
anyway...you are all correct... the guests are either unregistered people, or registered users who have not bothered to log on.
What about a Guestbook in Jimmy's?
guest books promote russian hookers spouting their spam websites.
yeah, ok lets go for the guest book!! :D lol only kidding
You're not far off the mark Stewart. I get to see reports from the ISP on visitor stats, and about half of them are spiders and bots (ooh, i feel like a real techie:rolleyes: ). And about half of those are probably porno spiders. Some of them try to post links in the directory (which is why i moderate entries to the directory and it takes a day or two for legitimate ones to come through). If you like, i can allow the autoporn to get posted, or alternatively just forward the links to a select mailing list;) .
Overall, i would say about half the "guests" are real people: either users who aren't logged in or else visitors just surfing the site.
Cheers.
we had the same trouble with our www.cusac.org forum so the guest book was torn up & fed to the fish.
spiders & bots ar like vermin on the internet.
almost as bad as 'our' asian call center workers who call & try to sell me something every teatime.
gone are the days when you want something you buy it.
nowadays they call you to tell you that you need it!!
rant rant rant!:rolleyes:
we had the same trouble with our www.cusac.org forum so the guest book was torn up & fed to the fish.
spiders & bots ar like vermin on the internet.
almost as bad as 'our' asian call center workers who call & try to sell me something every teatime.
gone are the days when you want something you buy it.
nowadays they call you to tell you that you need it!!
rant rant rant!:rolleyes:
cool down stewart take a deep breath thats beter :D
cool down stewart take a deep breath thats beter :D
3 bottles of stella later..........
im fine now ding. wheew:)
3 bottles of stella later..........
im fine now ding. wheew:)
You have just made me thirsty, now I'l have to have a scrumpy jack
Mmmm thats beter. A crowd going to Furnace tearoom tomorrow
Atlantic divers and Eastwood where r u guys going?
there are 11 of us heading to mod reef.
i promoted this a few weeks ago on our club forum after seeing your pics & reading your posts.
unfortunatly i couldnt manage to go as i was on the wallachia that weekend.
tomorrow will be my first time there, will let you know how we get on.
stewart
there are 11 of us heading to mod reef.
i promoted this a few weeks ago on our club forum after seeing your pics & reading your posts.
unfortunatly i couldnt manage to go as i was on the wallachia that weekend.
tomorrow will be my first time there, will let you know how we get on.
stewart
Remember not to park on the grass in front of the new houses the owners have been looking after the grass and have been great to divers with hot drinks ect and if there is no room in front of the mod building park in there driveway but not on the grass
dive granny
26-08-06, 22:07
Hi DG - yes guests are unregistered viewers, as the site is open to anyone who has internet access to view - but who are they? - my guess is odds & sods surfing net at random, or divers from who knows where.
Alex
Sorry Alex, I should have known I was stating the obvious to you more technically mided chaps:)
alexmaclennan
27-08-06, 06:42
No worries :) DG
Spiders and bots? Autoporn software :confused:
I thought it would be like minded individuals
I don't know what the world is coming to :(
Alex
It's about 50/50 on any website on the Net. Half of all visitors are bots. The most active is the Googlebot, which spiders Conger Alley about 800 times a month. Freaky, eh!
dive granny
27-08-06, 20:28
No worries :) DG
Spiders and bots? Autoporn software :confused:
I thought it would be like minded individuals
I don't know what the world is coming to :(
Alex
As I am not a technology buff, please tell me what spiders and bots are, apart from the obvious. :confused:
As I am not a technology buff, please tell me what spiders and bots are, apart from the obvious. :confused:
Automatic software that visits websites around the net and either records what's there or else tries to do something, like leave an entry in Stewart's teh guest book ;)
bot is short for robot, i think ...
spiders are so-called because they crawl around the "web". They are also known as "crawlers" for the same reason.
If you're interested, i've tweaked the system to distinguish in "Who's Online" between spiders and real people. So from now on, if you click on "Who's online" the list will show guests and spiders. Guests are now definitely real people.
If you're interested, i've tweaked the system to distinguish in "Who's Online" between spiders and real people. So from now on, if you click on "Who's online" the list will show guests and spiders. Guests are now definitely real people.
well done Gord, on my first attemt to view...
low & behold an MSN bot spider viewing.:rolleyes:
well done Gord, on my first attemt to view...
low & behold an MSN bot spider viewing.:rolleyes:
Yep a google and MSN spider on just now Tues 8.40 pm :D
bubblemaker
22-09-06, 16:55
Google Spider... MSN Spider... they're fine.. don't sound too bad...
Yahoo! Slurp Spider... what the hell is that??? it just sounds wrong!!!