Guestling

Spiders interest in East Sussex

[RHaworth]

I have written a little add-on for Wikipedia which enable a grid reference (the British geographical co-ordinate system) to link to a map sources page. I started to log the calls made to it and when I looked at the list by popularity I found that Guestling, an insignificant villge in East Sussex was coming high on the list.

To my shame, it actually took me a little while to realise that all this traffic was from bots who had seen the "guest" bit and were heading off in the hope of finding e-mail addresses.

(Note that the most popular location is "Beckingham Palace" - the home of Posh and Becks!)

[edited by: incrediBILL at 11:31 am (utc) on Jan. 22, 2009]
[edit reason] removed links, see TOS #25 [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld RHaworth and you're right that the word "guest" draws the attention of email harvesters looking for email addresses in guest books and also spam bots trying to post junk in a guest book.