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Giff me dat fill-em!:
Here is a typical example of what I see every time I log on to this hallowed site:
Currently Online: 13 Spiders, 5 Guests, 1 User (the one user, of course, is ME!)
BUT ... the 13 spiders consist of:
Yahoo! Slurp (11), MediaPartners-Google, MSNBot

Now ... since Dunrobin saw fit to display these creatures as online at our site ... WHY?
Why the HELL would Yahoo! (slurp?) want to be online at ThreeStooges.net 11 times at the same time?
And what'the hell is a SPIDER anyway? (and why do they want to know what I'm saying about Shemp or Moe? ... hhmmm ...)

Dunrobin:
Wassamatter?  Got a touch of arachnophobia?   >:D

"Spiders" in this sense are web-bots, automated programs that surf the Internet and index every page on the web for the Internet search engines.  Without them doing their job, surfing the web would be more like groping around a strange room in the dark.

Pilsner Panther:

--- Quote from: Dunrobin on March 28, 2006, 06:49:36 AM ---Wassamatter?  Got a touch of arachnophobia?   >:D

"Spiders" in this sense are web-bots, automated programs that surf the Internet and index every page on the web for the Internet search engines.  Without them doing their job, surfing the web would be more like groping around a strange room in the dark.



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The only arachnid around here at the moment arrived in a bunch of bananas from Cuba. Well, the customs inspectors can't catch everything.

 ::)

Giff me dat fill-em!:
Okay, so these spiders are "friendly" ... but why should some of them call themselves "SLURP"? It sounds like our site is being violated.           (eeewwww!)   [confused2]

Dunrobin:

--- Quote from: Giff me dat fill-em! on March 28, 2006, 11:11:55 AM ---Okay, so these spiders are "friendly" ... but why should some of them call themselves "SLURP"? It sounds like our site is being violated.           (eeewwww!)   [confused2]

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Now there you've got me - I have no idea why Yahoo keeps SLURPing this site, and I don't know what SLURP is supposed to stand for.  Somehow, I don't think that I want to know, either.

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