Hei Brian
A bot can be many things but here I think that is meant 'internet bot',
so here it's a abbreviation / nickname for 'robot' - a sort of a machine
that collects item, give automatic answers etc. and on the bad side a
'bot' also can be quite unfriendly by collecting mail adresses for use
to send spam and scam mails.
According to wiki the explanation is this:
"An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a
software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet.
Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally
repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human
alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an
automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web
servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file
called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server
that the bot is supposed to obey or be removed.
In addition to their uses outlined above, bots may also be implemented
where a response speed faster than that of humans is required (e.g.,
gaming bots and auction-site robots) or less commonly in situations
where the emulation of human activity is required, for example chat
bots." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot>
Cheers, Erik Richard
Brian Ferguson wrote:
>> Thanks for this forum link. It looks good. I am listed as #7!!! Wow. 2002.
>>
>> However I wondered what the following means:
>>
>> <Registered users: brifer
>> <http://nisus.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17>, Exabot
>> [Bot], exegete77
>> <http://nisus.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4321>,
>> Google [Bot], Yahoo [Bot]>
>>
>> You can guess me, but who/what are [bot]'s?
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