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What does this Mean ???

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Can Google Bot really Login and Use PM System ?
If the bot is viewing an address that includes /private.php it is considered to be using the Private Messaging system.
It is likely that because the bot is not logged in (therefore not having rights to use the Private Messaging system) that they will be looking at an error message telling them they need to log in.

I don't think guests/bots can use the PM system at all, correct me if I am wrong.
Oh my god. Now don't tell that you really thought that google bot is sending a private message to the users Smile
Not really....But that seemed a bit unusual to me..lol
Yup they all use the pm system....
They are actually seeing the "No Permission" page even though it reports them as Using PM System. If you want to block robots from accessing those pages, you can use a robots.txt

See: http://community.mybboard.net/robots.txt for an example.
DennisTT Wrote:See: http://community.mybboard.net/robots.txt for an example.
Why don't MyBB releases come with that robots.txt file?
MrDoom Wrote:
DennisTT Wrote:See: http://community.mybboard.net/robots.txt for an example.
Why don't MyBB releases come with that robots.txt file?

Because some people may want the bots to communicate with their users. Shy
yeah... I was wondering few days ago that it's really fun talking to bots like google, MSN, and yahoo. They're all dumb though..
May i just ask how can i remove certain bots like ask.com and tridant and just keep mayor ones like msn, google and yahoo
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