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Old Salt
Posts: 461
Location: Medina, OH | Subject: Guests? Who Are They?
Curious. Rght now there are 15 folks online: 7 registered; 8 guests. Assume some guests are submariners checking out topics. While I used to be naive, not anymore. "Research" one reason for guests. Anyone have other thoughts? Surely not Ivan! . |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
Lurkers, like me...who just sit and read the posts.
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Senior Crew
Posts: 186
Location: Chunky, MS | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
I'd guess that at least half of them are spiders/web crawlers/bots. These are the things that do the dirty work for search engines. Some are also email harvesters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler |
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Admin
Posts: 2297
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
If you don't log onto the bbs and come in and just read... then you show up as a "guest" |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 892
Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
Then there are some of us that are registered users that occasionally check the board traffic without logging in. No log in required to read, only necessary if responding. Appreciate your continued participation! Thus, at times, I may be a guest.
As you may be well aware, some of my posts/responses may not be truly "submarine related", but they come from a career submariner. I know that Gentry understands where I'm coming from. We sometimes feel the urge to get "off topic" and it finds its way into this venue...
Example: This string isn't directly submarine discussion > ? > ?
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
I only log in when I want to make a post and then log back out at once. 99% of my time looking at this board is as not logged in.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1269
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
Then there are those like me who NEVER log off.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
I stay logged on also. I hate to write down different passwords to the various sites. My memory is getting short, sorta like-------. Damn, another brain pharte. |
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Old Salt
Posts: 461
Location: Medina, OH | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
Roy Ator - 2008-07-28 8:57 PM Then there are some of us that are registered users that occasionally check the board traffic without logging in. No log in required to read, only necessary if responding. Appreciate your continued participation! Thus, at times, I may be a guest.Roy, thanks. In case you don't know, When I get your message from webmaster, here's what it looks like, Is this due to editing tools? <font size="3">Then there are some of us that are registered users that occasionally check the board traffic without logging in. No log in required to read, only necessary if responding. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Appreciate your continued participation!</span> Thus, at times, I may be a guest.<br /><br /><font size="2">As you may be well aware, some of my posts/responses <span style="font-weight: bold;">may not</span> be truly "submarine related", but they come from a career submariner. I know that Gentry understands where I'm coming from. We sometimes feel the urge to get "off topic" and it finds its way into this venue...<br /><br /><font size="4">Example: This string isn't directly submarine discussion > ? > ? </font><br /></font></font>
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 892
Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas | Subject: RE: Guests? Who Are They?
Yes, these are Hyper Text Machine Language (HTML) editing tools. Underneath this reply block, there are four options, the second one is to Disable HTML. And if I recall correctly, in your User Control Panel there are some 'viewing' options as well.
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Guests? Who Are They?
