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King Harold
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Suspiciously bot-like new members?

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Those new members, with 0 posts, and female-bot-names, all with lowercase "usa" as location

.. just saying they're there ..

(or am I just being paranoid?)
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King Harold wrote:...and female-bot-names
Well, that sort of gives it away. :P
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benryves wrote:
King Harold wrote:...and female-bot-names
Well, that sort of gives it away. :P
Aaw, don't be so pessimistic :(
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even though they register, they can't post due built-in security... once in a while I delete all those pesky bot-members. don't worry :)
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No girls on the internets!
You know your hexadecimal output routine is broken when it displays the character 'G'.
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At halomods there is a type of user called "bot". Like there are members, moderators, admins and bots. MSNbot and Askjeeves hangout a lot.
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Post by King Harold »

Could that be the crawler-bots? (like google)
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I would assume so. I haven't seen any spambots there.
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Post by magicdanw »

Dwedit wrote:No girls on the internets!
Careful... :)
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