Member List Found

[Catmando]

Good morning,

I came across this yesterday, while looking at the "Who's Online" Status, I noticed there was a "guest" looking at a Forum "Members List".

I did not know from where they found this, but I figured I would post it.

If you click on Select sort method "Total Posts" and choose "Descending" order, you get the Top posters from Top to bottom. I'm actually # 11 on the list, behind Hal 9000!

((I'll say my goodbyes to everyone now, in case by posting this link I am forever banished from the beethoven bulletin board.))

Here's the link:

BBB Members List

[navneeth]

Wow! The earliest members are from 37 years ago, and one of them certainly has an Indian-Indian connection.

[Shapley]

That's pretty neat. I didn't know that was available.

Looks like there's been lots of bots in the past couple years, judging by the names.

[Nicole Marie]

Excellent! Now where the hell are all those people and why aren't they posting?!?!?!

[jamiebk]

Wow....who knew??

[piqaboo]

HI, good morning, your ladyship!

I see that if GC and TheGC were merged, or BJ@work with BJ, Haggis@work w Haggis, these guys'd rise fast in the verbosity rankings.

I wanna know how mmichaelson aka saxybuff is doing. Should I be making up a babyclothes care package? Lioness? etc. But I dont think we should let Dave post anymore. He was bad for the electronics

[Catmando]

Excellent! Now where the hell are all those people and why aren't they posting?!?!?!

Phew! I'm not in trouble. When I saw Nicole posting I saw my bbb life flash before my eyes.

[jamiebk]

I'd still be curious to know where the heck that link came from. I have searched all over this board and never found anything like that. How could a "guest" discover it and peruse? Perhaps a Techie. Excellent pick-up Cat!

[navneeth]

It's from the Chamber of Secrets.

[Trumpetmaster]

Excellent! Now where the hell are all those people and why aren't they posting?!?!?!

If they're not posting... Let's all hope they are listening to B.com!!!!

[Trumpetmaster]

Excellent! Now where the hell are all those people and why aren't they posting?!?!?!

Phew! I'm not in trouble. When I saw Nicole posting I saw my bbb life flash before my eyes.

[Serenity]

What a find! Look at the alphabetical listing. Hey, who used serenity with a number? Oh, that guy Nudewigvonb was kind of funny.......I'll have to play later.

[Catmando]

Some very interesting usernames indeed!

There is a BigJon Confused.

[BigJon]

Hmmm, who was I pissing off in Oct. of 2005?

[BigJon]

I'd still be curious to know where the heck that link came from. I have searched all over this board and never found anything like that. How could a "guest" discover it and peruse? Perhaps a Techie. Excellent pick-up Cat!

I administer a phpBB forum. From my experience, most guests listed are bots. phpBB is a very well known forum structure and the default location for most features gets crawled by the bots looking for vulnerabilities and places to create their spam.

Just scanning the list, I can see obvious spammers among the usernames. The goal of the majority of them is to place their website links in a place where Google will crawl them and extract the website link and count it towards pages rankings. It's a slimy business and one we fight all the time. The more people that use the forum, the harder the spambots hit it.

I'm assuming Chris and Sarge are keeping up with the latest phpBB techniques for thwarting the bots and the names that are in there are people who were registered before the bot defense were put up. My fellow admin has a tool that auto-removes the spammers if you are interested.

[treebeau]

For Piq (small boo):

I email Saxy every now and again. She is in her 25th week of pregger-nancy. Gonna have a girl and name her Kaylee. She blogs all about it at:
http://happymandi.blogspot.com/

Just for fun I ran a quick search and found that she posted the word "excited" at least 4 times in February.

I wonder what ever became of the electricuted/frozen bobcat. Would like to see a photo of that bad boy...stuffed of course.

Regards,
Tim B.

[jamiebk]

I'd still be curious to know where the heck that link came from. I have searched all over this board and never found anything like that. How could a "guest" discover it and peruse? Perhaps a Techie. Excellent pick-up Cat!

I administer a phpBB forum. From my experience, most guests listed are bots. phpBB is a very well known forum structure and the default location for most features gets crawled by the bots looking for vulnerabilities and places to create their spam.

Just scanning the list, I can see obvious spammers among the usernames. The goal of the majority of them is to place their website links in a place where Google will crawl them and extract the website link and count it towards pages rankings. It's a slimy business and one we fight all the time. The more people that use the forum, the harder the spambots hit it.

I'm assuming Chris and Sarge are keeping up with the latest phpBB techniques for thwarting the bots and the names that are in there are people who were registered before the bot defense were put up. My fellow admin has a tool that auto-removes the spammers if you are interested.

Whew...all this techno-talk is a bit beyond my meager web surfing knowledge. "Bots crawling websites looking to deposit spam" I guess Chris and Sarge are doing yeoman's duty on keeping this site clean because I rarely encounter a problem. More so, the BB usually works great. Thanks guys...er...keep the "bots" away...er...I guess

[OperaTenor]

I wonder what ever became of the electricuted/frozen bobcat. Would like to see a photo of that bad boy...stuffed of course.

Regards,
Tim B.

I thought the Bobsicle belonged to Ethan!

Someone else who I wouldn't mind hearing from again.

[barfle]

The earliest member I remember is Sir Stew, who used to host in the mornings. Lliam is the oldest non-employee I recognize, then serge utizberea (haven't heard from him in a while), shos, Jeff Dutton, and me (#153).

I also remember audiogirl, Mahler Maestro, violin, and many others.

It's as bad as looking at my old high school yearbook.

[bignaf]

interesting! lots of old familiar names.