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TomC said:jactac said:Tom,
Why can we see a Bot "Reading Private Message" if the Bot cannot access it ?
This forum only allows registered members to see any postings, so those 'Bots' must be registered users to read it.
To get those bot-users out of 'normal' user-statistics the forum software has this users built-in. That's why you see their names, but cannot click on them.
And, you probably guessed it, they are able to access the link to read their own(!) private messages. That's what you noticed.
jactac said:TomC said:jactac said:Tom,
Why can we see a Bot "Reading Private Message" if the Bot cannot access it ?
This forum only allows registered members to see any postings, so those 'Bots' must be registered users to read it.
To get those bot-users out of 'normal' user-statistics the forum software has this users built-in. That's why you see their names, but cannot click on them.
And, you probably guessed it, they are able to access the link to read their own(!) private messages. That's what you noticed.
So these Bots are humans pretending to be a robot :crazy:
This place is getting freaky. Give me a sheep any day. :lol:
JWT said:I do miss the opportunity to buy discounted genuine Gucci handbags directly from the forum
jactac said:So then,
Can we assume our mail is safe from anyone other than who it is intended for :eusa-think:
OO58RON said:jactac said:So then,
Can we assume our mail is safe from anyone other than who it is intended for :eusa-think:
hanswuk said:jactac said:So then,
Can we assume our mail is safe from anyone other than who it is intended for :eusa-think:
mrizzle said:It's actually just the pictures I sent of myself. It's ok though...I'll share them...
I feel better now I've shared.
jactac said:Dolly has scuppered all of my chances of true love with you, I'm distraught at the thought of never being able to express myself publicly, whilst at the same time fear that my messages are be intercepted by Derek
bigmac3161 said:Must have been cold in Aberdeen?
OO58RON said:hanswuk said:jactac said:So then,
Can we assume our mail is safe from anyone other than who it is intended for :eusa-think:
jactac, are you worried about something.....?
hanswuk said:OO58RON said:jactac said:So then,
Can we assume our mail is safe from anyone other than who it is intended for :eusa-think:
jactac, are you worried about something.....?
I would love to claim to understand that. However anybody that knows me would know that to be a lie :lol: Hope you got your answer jactac :thumbup:Evil Derboy said:The forum software platform that this site is build on identifies popular search engine crawlers (which are a kind of "bot"). The forum software allows these bits to reach certain HTML addresses and the content contained therein.
This process is what allows search engines to index the site and allows users to find us when they search on Google, Bing etc n
Every page on this site, including the private messages page has an HTML address so when a web crawler is indexing that page the forum software reports it as if it were a user. This is why you're seeing googlebot is reading private messages. However this site is built on PHP which renders the HTML content. In other words the forum will show "googlebot is viewing private messages" meaning "USERNAME is viewing their own messages" but in truth what is actually happening is "Googlebot is indexing a blank page called private-messages.html with no content in it because Googlebot is a search engine crawler and has private messages switched off, so the forum is not displaying any content to that user".
I'm a simplifying a bit but you get the jist.