lwo said:

Why doesn't this site block access unless you are a member. Seems pretty pointless and potentially harmful.

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I would agree, except for the fact that many new people come here looking for answers to their questions, especially in the mushroom hunting forum.  There are tons of posts from new users that couldn't tell a galerina from a cubensis.  It's good that these lazy users who don't register can still have access to information that could save their life 

Ythan said:

If you look at the IPs of the anonymous users you'll see a lot are very similar (for instance right now there are at least two dozen IPs that start with 66.196.90.*). These are web crawlers indexing our content for various search engines. The ones in my example come from Inktomi but you'll also frequently see spiders from Google, MSN, Alexa and AskJeeves. Nothing suspicious and no cause for concern.

Peace,

-Y

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BLAST_420 said:

yea it did but look at what is going on every site based in canada having to do with marijuana has been shut dow, nex they will target any site having to do with drugs due to pressure from the assholes in the white house

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