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random_hypocrisy
May 23rd, 2009, 12:55 AM
(707 members and 7659 guests and 113 Spiders)

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-grubby
May 23rd, 2009, 12:56 AM
Oh noes! We have arachnids on the forums!

Tibuda
May 23rd, 2009, 01:02 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1154617
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1101016
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122148

CharmyBee
May 23rd, 2009, 01:02 AM
googles, msn and jeeves poking around and indexing.

random_hypocrisy
May 23rd, 2009, 01:06 AM
googles, msn and jeeves poking around and indexing.

Ok, I see. Thanks.

lukjad
May 23rd, 2009, 01:08 AM
Oh noes! We have arachnids on the forums!
Must be the BT Stalker group. ;)

random_hypocrisy
May 23rd, 2009, 01:09 AM
Must be the BT Stalker group. ;)

BT Stalker group?

etnlIcarus
May 23rd, 2009, 07:30 AM
I'd make a joke about there being an arachnid-people/linux conspiracy theory but I'm actually kind of concerned someone would take it seriously.

CJ Master
May 23rd, 2009, 07:41 AM
Only thing I'm curious about is how the forum identifies the difference between guests and spiders.

lisati
May 23rd, 2009, 07:45 AM
Only thing I'm curious about is how the forum identifies the difference between guests and spiders.

Arachnids generally have more legs. I'd guess that the forums monitor what's being read by which IP address, and can, if it chooses, do some kind of reverse DNS lookup.

hansdown
May 23rd, 2009, 07:56 AM
Arachnids generally have more legs. I'd guess that the forums monitor what's being read by which IP address, and can, if it chooses, do some kind of reverse DNS lookup.

How true.

CJ Master
May 23rd, 2009, 08:06 AM
Arachnids generally have more legs. I'd guess that the forums monitor what's being read by which IP address, and can, if it chooses, do some kind of reverse DNS lookup.

Not sure what a "reverse" DNS lookup is, but it'd still probably put way more strain on the servers then we need.

rudy.b
May 23rd, 2009, 08:09 AM
Only thing I'm curious about is how the forum identifies the difference between guests and spiders.

Spiders will generally identify themselves in the user agent field in the HTTP header, e.g. 'Googlebot' instead of 'Mozilla', 'Opera' etc. I'm guessing that's what the forum software uses to distinguish them.