Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:07:18 -0500 Message-ID: <57BC74E8.6596@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:08:08 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Google and CraigsList think I'm a "bot". References: <57BBF730.576E@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-lN5jrM9IYv/w+aNsXO+uF3GAf04Nv8zvB7IeZRNhIbcuTN+kaxFaCGz6r29nhS3MLzI2FdHnxWNf7yp!grN6WwfRLxoGBM2BoO6nLp7kuoG1iFVCnzbPMZZmvg3i0uU5sp+YvmTE71JLFV3JpCpzdzks750O!P1hLMtqR+qA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2181 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:594321 comp.os.linux.advocacy:366353 Jeff-Relf.Me wrote: > > MsStarmaker wrote: > > For example...i do a harmless search and i get this from Google: > > " Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. > > Please try your request again later. " Why did this happen ? > > It happens to me too. > CraigsList recently banned "me" ( my IP address ) for 24 hours. > > Thirty or so people are using "my" IP address; > so Google and CraigsList think I'm a "bot". > > An IP address is _not_ a person. If Google thinks you are a bot, how could they be wrong? Maybe you are a bot. Is Jeff-Relf.Me a person, or a computer simulation of a person? Cause there is all kinds of strange persons with strange names inside my computer. Are they persons, bots or computer simulated persons? And what are they doing in my computer????