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Offline Jim Dale

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Hello and hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.


When I check who's Online there is always a fair few "Guests Registering for an Account", but they never become members of the forum.


Do you have any light you can shed on this please? Thanks as always.


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Re: Checking Whos Online - Always "Guests Registering for an Account"
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2021, 05:07:16 am »
Looks like they just bots trying to register.
You can lookup the ip's at https://www.ip2location.com/demo and see what they are.
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Re: Checking Whos Online - Always "Guests Registering for an Account"
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2021, 05:09:26 am »
Looks like they just bots trying to register.
You can lookup the ip's at https://www.ip2location.com/demo and see what they are.


Thanks, just had some concern that they may have been legit people trying to join up.

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Re: Checking Whos Online - Always "Guests Registering for an Account"
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2021, 08:02:03 am »
You will find they go away after a while and only occasionally appear

 

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