10-12-2006, 10:35 AM
Ave Andrew,
these 'bots' are programs which automatically search the internet for information. Some are the good guys (collecting news and contents for search engines like google). The bad bots are spies, aiming for personal data like e-mail addresses (which will be at least spammed later with advertising or other worse things...). There also are bots who do not read but write. Bait-postings or again - advertising of a special kind. A lot of guest books suffer from that plague...
these 'bots' are programs which automatically search the internet for information. Some are the good guys (collecting news and contents for search engines like google). The bad bots are spies, aiming for personal data like e-mail addresses (which will be at least spammed later with advertising or other worse things...). There also are bots who do not read but write. Bait-postings or again - advertising of a special kind. A lot of guest books suffer from that plague...
Greetings from germania incognita
Heiko (Cornelius Quintus)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Heiko (Cornelius Quintus)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?