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Post by Brian on Apr 14, 2010 23:00:21 GMT -8
This is a spin-off of the Montrose Peace Vigil message board's "Guests are welcome!" thread. Last year, I started to note the board's more exotic visitors, which for me means any IP address outside of Southern California. We had repeat visits from Moscow and Beijing, along with hits from Canada, Australia, South Korea, Finland and one from Japan with the National Institute of Information and Communication listed as the Internet Service Provider. We had no unknown visitors outside of the U.S. during the first two months of 2010, but look who's dropped by since: - Moscow, Russia
- Extrema, Brazil
- Dural, Australia
- L'viys'ka Oblast, Ukraine
- La Raincy, France
Also in the past six weeks, the board has received visitors from Texas, Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts and two different carriers in Colorado -- which might be explained by the persistent bots of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. As I write this, four of the 13 guests in the past 24 hours on the homepage's Info Center are search engines. All humans on earth are welcome to post here as guests. Just click on "reply" in any thread.
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Post by Brian on May 17, 2010 23:33:06 GMT -8
Thanks to all of the members of this message board who keep coming by and posting here regularly! We had only two international visitors in the past 33 days, but the first bears a name in Zurich, Switzerland that's apparently known worldwide. Usually, the IP locator service I use shows the Internet service provider as the organization when I run a search, unless the computer is being used at a big company, for instance. But until this month, never an individual's name. There are half a million results from Google for him: martin-krafft.net/I'm old, so I've never heard of the Debian operating system. Dr. Krafft is young, so he's unabashed about publishing personal information all over the Web, including his impressive resume. I'm surprised he has any time at all for a blog. We may never know how he came to the Montrose Peace Vigil's address, yet I enjoy his worldview expressed in the first two entries: madduck.net/blog/Not far from Zurich, we also had a guest from the city of Karlsruhe in westernmost Germany with the longest ISP name to date, Kabel Baden-Wuerttemberg GmbH & Co. KG. My favorite hit, however, was from Peace Action West in Oakland. Come back! I promise to donate more.
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Post by Brian on Jun 19, 2010 23:17:59 GMT -8
The Montrose Peace Vigil message board has enjoyed the company of a search engine with an Internet Protocol address in Moscow nonstop for the past 11 hours, constantly dipping into each of the six departments on our homepage. That IP address was also online with us repeatedly every day from May 19-31 except for one, then only three days inbetween. In my two years as a message board administrator on ProBoards, I've never seen one IP address pop up that much. Every source I've found online identifies it as a spider, which catalogs and updates webpages, functioning as a librarian for the Internet, with no reports any harm coming from that number. We haven't gotten this much action from the many recognizable domestic bots searching our posts for keywords to use in advertising, not even close, so I assume that our content interests someone in Russia -- and perhaps the search engines in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Ostersund, Sweden that have also visited in the past 24 hours. We've also had several unknown guests, no doubt human, from cities in Southern California and Internet Service Providers like SBC since my last traffic report. Please feel free to post anywhere -- or just say "hi!"
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Post by Brian on Jun 28, 2010 23:01:12 GMT -8
Update on our constant robotic guest from Moscow: That IP address kept appearing for another four days, making it six days in a row, but has been absent since June 24.
Just in the past week, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board has received visitors from New Delhi, India, and Maasdijk, the Netherlands, as well as Houston, Texas, and Windermere, Florida.
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Post by Roberta on Jun 29, 2010 11:51:14 GMT -8
Update on our constant robotic guest from Moscow: That IP address kept appearing for another four days, making it six days in a row, but has been absent since June 24. Interesting timing given the trip down memory lane back to the Cold War in this morning's headlines. Are we being monitored for possible employment as information collectors by our former adversary? Some of us have college bills looming and wouldn't necessarily say no ;>)
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Post by Brian on Jul 19, 2010 23:42:33 GMT -8
After a 16-day absence, my favorite IP address in Moscow has hung out on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board for seven of the past ten days -- the search engine from Yandex, the Google of Russia: www.yandex.com/?ncrnd=8178I searched for "Montrose Peace Vigil," and the first three citations, in order, were for the Glendale Peace Vigil website's mention of us, our message board itself and the page on Yoko's ImaginePeace.com with the posts, photos and links about our Bed-In tributes last year. Like Google, Yandex offers cached pages -- here's one of our homepages from last March: hghltd.yandex.net/yandbtm?qtree=iWFxw6RRtYG1qq3B7HUubS8tWg4q2zT4kScl48xRJpfVekS0pL3oieL7Eya3%2BPJ07cRRR4wYhMl7VDVDWaVLFIRvOQnol%2FhS%2FCKvABr9hFROb1U8W8AxCoy2bKsBUMAPlVAmE6YB0npcSGd9f3cOrGME00pxBhc0jPCq7Uq7i%2B%2BHl5QjYiRVrOxqdVz5PsAU3fUjQJM06PJvjGEi8YZvUcf0hOKLsZFVi0E1wtd5ZG6ExQzWdZH4ZGXXRX4GDza2B%2F02LQbnAur1%2BaI4DokVDuyY5UGxbIRqS3%2F%2BWoC%2BCZUdzRWQcnoJyUBC5NAOjkPKb7JhuqLrVi2gedEYvDkXdc4bG14k0bw%2Fi6ItLahlYDfauupdbKPUqUqGDea0jZmnk4K8MMaYMcA%3D&src=F&text=montrose%20peace%20vigil%20message%20board&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmontrosepeacevigil.proboards.com%2FBest of all is the Russian language translation of the message board. Jeanne and I have Russian names, but the software doesn't know what to do with sharonw, anni or Montrose. I right-clicked on "Translate" and opened the screen in a new window when the link to this board appeared after my search. Edited to add: That second link expired. But you can right-click on "cached" to get our March homepage after you search for "Montrose Peace Vigil" on Yandex.
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Post by Brian on Aug 16, 2010 23:01:05 GMT -8
Coincidentally or not, I haven't seen the bot from Yandex, Russia's premiere search engine site, since I posted my last Traffic Report on July 20. But it was soon replaced on our daily guest roster by Googlebot IP addresses by the dozens, visiting our message board hundreds of times in the past four weeks. You may have noticed on the homepage's Info Center that the board has been averaging about 12 guests daily -- eight or nine of them typically are Google.
Type "Montrose Peace Vigil" on Yandex and the board still appears second on the search, right after a link about us on the Glendale Peace Vigil's website. On Google, our message board places fourth. Karen's 2007 photo of our protest downtown in JPG Magazine is first.
Recently, we've also had visitors -- most likely human -- from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Detmold in Germany and Waukegan, Illinois.
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Post by Brian on Aug 26, 2010 23:22:59 GMT -8
The Montrose Peace Vigil message board hit a peak of 19 guests in the past 24 hours on Thursday, which might be a record. Only three of them were Googlebots. Instead, we had visitors with IP addresses from these cities, most within a three-hour period: - Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine
- Hyderabad, India
- no city, Brazil
- Wemmel, Belgium
- Rekkem, Belgium
- Pecs, Hungary
- Madrid, Spain
- Viterbo, Italy
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
Until I started running IP addresses on a search engine that registers the robotic ones, I assumed most were human beings who happened by here because of links generated by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and other so-called crawlers that catalog keywords and pages or place ads based on what we write. But all of the above have been identified as content spammers, which post links on message boards to pornography or pharmaceuticals, mostly, the same stuff you get via e-mail. Apparently, our little message board is big enough to attract them but not busy enough to invite posts.
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Post by Roberta on Aug 28, 2010 20:36:34 GMT -8
[quote author=admin board=general thread=129 post=2299 time=1282893779
But all of the above have been identified as content spammers, which post links on message boards to pornography or pharmaceuticals, mostly, the same stuff you get via e-mail.
GROSS!
Apparently, our little message board is big enough to attract them but not busy enough to invite posts.
GOOD, LET"S HOPE IT NEVER DOES. [/quote]
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Post by Brian on Aug 31, 2010 23:00:16 GMT -8
Roberta's reaction to the prospect of content spammers posting their links on this message board is understandable. But Anni and I can delete them as soon as we see them -- the way we hang, probably before anyone else would read them. In the past five days, there was only one identified content spammer, from Novosibirsk in southern Russia, visiting us.
Yet we've had five possible humans as unknown guests since my last post in this thread -- from Somerville, Mass., Erlanger, Ken., Houston, Tex., and Sunnyvale and Orange, Calif.
Six of the 13 guests in the past 24 hours were Googlebots. They've been here everyday for months. After reading a story in the L.A. Times business section last weekend, I wonder if they're part of the research an Internet genius is conducting in Google's quest to mount a challenge to the dominance of Facebook.
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