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« on: May 22, 2007, 02:43:19 AM »

There is a nasty "robot" from the domain http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/ that is using up to 6.45 GB of bandwidth per day.  It doesn't appear to honor our "robots.txt" file that tells them what to link.  It hails from a range of IP addresses owned by PSI.NET out of Washington DC.  I have blocked the entire range of IP addresses starting with 38.99.*.*, so if you know of anyone who has had trouble connecting to messing-about.com, that may be the reason.

There is no solution to the problem.   Search engines are now banned from messing-about.com and my sister sites via the use of the robots.txt file, and I will continue to restrict IP addresses from robots that don't honor the robots.txt file.
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2007, 10:57:24 AM »

Frank,
Is this related to the loss of being able to save a topic thread anymore?  I discovered this was gone last month.
Thanks,
Greg Luckett
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2007, 05:28:17 PM »

No, it wouldn't affect that.  I may have wiped that one out with one of the upgrades the software requires, but I don't recall when I did it!  

Some of the features are "add ons" that I have to add back in whenever there is an upgrade.  We did have a "Save Topic" and a "Print Topic" button a while back, didn't we?
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2007, 06:22:54 PM »

Quote from: "Frank Hagan"
No, it wouldn't affect that.  I may have wiped that one out with one of the upgrades the software requires, but I don't recall when I did it!  

Some of the features are "add ons" that I have to add back in whenever there is an upgrade.  We did have a "Save Topic" and a "Print Topic" button a while back, didn't we?


Yes, I think you are correct.  I had also forgotten the "Print Topic".  Laughing
Will we be able to get the "Save Topic" back?
Thanks. Smile
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