Is there a bot on this forum: "StephJones".

Lakesailor said:
Now that really is worrying. I've been following that.

We are all of the same World, but Worlds apart.

These people move amongst us. :eek:

One of them has decided how many posts per year you are allowed to do.
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And you my fine little inland friend, are WAY over your limit.



 
mcframe said:
I know why you're here, Photodog.
I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer.
You're looking for an ensign.
I know because I was once looking for the same thing.
And when it found me, it told me I wasn't really looking for it.
I was looking for an answer.
It's the question that drives us, Photodog.
It's the question that brought you here.
You know the question, just as I did.

After this, there is no turning back. You wear the red ensign - the story ends, you wake up on your boat and believe whatever you want to believe. You wear the blue ensign - you stay in YBWland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...
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Ahhh.. You too!
 
zikzik said:
Maybe being tracked or not relates to which ISP we use?
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If you use an ISP, you're being tracked.

Your computer or iPad etc. will be assigned an IP address by the DSL router supplied by the ISP, it is in a defined range (you can set it in the router), and this is local to the network in your house.

Your router then gets an IP address from your ISP when it connects to the internet - this is the one that every site you visit sees and very probably logs.

The router links the internet (WAN or Wide Area Network) to your LAN (Local Area Network) using NAT (Network Address Translation).

This allows your WLAN devices to access the internet using the address supplied by the ISP, and enables all the return traffic to end up on the right computer.

It is this ISP supplied address which identifies you - you can find out what it is in your router logs or here http://whatismyipaddress.com/
The ISP has a range of addresses assigned to them, and they log who uses what address when.

So yes, it's all tracked and traceable if you use a standard configuration.

Further reading ......

http://whatismyipaddress.com/internet-anonymity
http://whatismyipaddress.com/hide-ip
http://whatismyipaddress.com/change-ip
http://whatismyipaddress.com/proxy-server

But please read the risks section ....

http://whatismyipaddress.com/proxy-risks

But that's enough of the boring stuff, I've got a geek gene which is hard to suppress :o ... now where's that rabbit hole?
 
A quick search on google finds her as a username on several other fora, motorcycles, snowmobiles, cars etc. Always on-line and viewing the index.
AND I've been visited fairly recently. So now she knows my innermost secrets can I expect a late night visit:cool:
 
I didn't. Not really worth the bother. There are bots crawling the net all the time, into places that mainstream bots won't go if the robot.txt tells them not to ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard )
Anything they glean is what you have already made public, so anyone could do that anyway.

It's interesting, but not really that important in the general internet scheme of things.
 
Twister_Ken said:
Sounds like link-building/traffic-building to me. You're all helping him/her/it achieve the objective.

BTW, has anyone reported this to the mods?
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Yes, I reported it to Richard. Whatever is going on, this is clearly an attempt to circumvent the "Robots" settings on this site (and, I guess, others). Robots such as Google's indexing service are required to obey instructions set by site owners; people aren't. So, whatever is going on isn't in the range of things that YBW wish to permit. I suspect that robots aren't permitted to index profile pages, which would make sense.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Yes, I reported it to Richard. Whatever is going on, this is clearly an attempt to circumvent the "Robots" settings on this site (and, I guess, others). Robots such as Google's indexing service are required to obey instructions set by site owners; people aren't. So, whatever is going on isn't in the range of things that YBW wish to permit. I suspect that robots aren't permitted to index profile pages, which would make sense.
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You did and apologies for not getting back to you I was on a dodgy wireless

Natalie is looking into his now as I don't do technical I am purely soft furnishings...that's marketing to you and I

Cheers
 
Boo2 said:
The whois lookup for that domain is given as wired2000.com who say they are "an online marketing company which provides innovative advertising for businesses through various search engine optimization (SEO) strategies."

Seems to me a bit deceptive to pretend to be a NY undergrad, are any of the mods interested in this ?

Boo2
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And he/she/it has been looking at all your profiles. Be careful what you put in there if you're in the least bit bothered about your privacy.

In the meantime: Ghostery.
 
RichardShead said:
You did and apologies for not getting back to you I was on a dodgy wireless

Natalie is looking into his now as I don't do technical I am purely soft furnishings...that's marketing to you and I

Cheers
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Did anything conclusive come from Natalie's investigations ?
 
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