Members on-line

[Jon Nazareth]

In the members on-line list, what is a robot?

Jon

 

[Pugsley]

It'll be a Google 'Bot' or similar searching the pages to index the content for searches. Either that, or we have some very hi-tech members

 

[adrian]

Correct - it's one of the automated scripts from google and others that scans the forum to index the pages for their search engines, you might also hear them referred to as spiders. There are a few that are quite intrusive and scan for email addresses etc. There are settings on the forum to limit what they can do which hopefully are enabled if I've managed to get the settings correct.