9th December 2005, 11:51 PM
We should explain the situation then. Many of the "guests" you may see visiting those ancient threads seem to likely be just google search "bots". Google has this spidery method of finding web pages to catalog in their massive shockingly fast database (relative to databases I've had the unfortunate "pleasure" of dealing with, no one ever listens to the guy suggesting they go "dynamic", though I do understand the frustration of making an old database "random access" if it is terribly confusing).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)