>> I'm not familiar with that one.. I should do a grep for them to see if
>> they've hit over here as well 

> Yeah, it's called BaiduSearch or BaiduBot; I've seen both of them in
> my logs before.

 JK> Wow Baidubot is surely hitting on BBBS' webserver over here :(  Oh
 JK> well.. off to inet.bbb to get rid of them haha  

you could just deny them access to those links in BBBS that lead to places
like the messages, files and games... they are robots.txt friendly...

 JK> I mean, I really don't mind if they hit the main web server here.. 
 JK> but bbbs is limited to only those 7 nodes. 

i assume by that you mean that it is similar to apache in that there's
seven HTTP handlers that are allowed to run and you don't allow any more
than that??

>> Hey, last night I had the greatest chat with a user on my system..
>> he's from Zone 6 (he's in Tokyo) - and he wonders what happened to
>> Z6.. sad :(  Well, he is looking to get it going again.. Super I think
>> :)

> That's great!  It'd be nice to see Z6 up and running again.

 JK> Yeah really :)  He's got some friends who'll be coming in, and if
 JK> we count the z6 folks that we've got listed in Z3 right now, it
 JK> should make a good basis for reinstating that zone.

that might be a good thing... especially considering the reasons why Z6
went away last time it was operational...

)\/(ark