Yes, by putting a robots.txt file in the root of your site, but some people want their forum to be spidered as they want the posts to show up on google for example. How else would we find all the posts in the macromedia forums for example.
I used to run Fusetalk myself on cfdeveloper, until I discovered it was the sole reason for the server keep crashing. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Crider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2006 14:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: fusetalk Isn't there a way to prevent that spider from hitting it? -----Original Message----- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: fusetalk It has a LOT of features, but I have not found it to be very user friendly for users, and it has a tendency to kill coldfusision if it gets hit by a spider. There are just lots of annoying little things. Like the fact that by default any forum category only shows threads for the last 30 days, and if there are none, it give the message that the forum is empty, which is misleading. The user has no idea he has to modify his preferences to show older messages in order to see anything, so this he never comes back as he thinks it is an inactive forum. Plus I found a lot of the advanced features just did not work properly, and I had to modify code. Every customer I have installed it for has had problems, doesn't understand it, and was not happy with it. The average forum requirements are much more basic in my experience, so if you really want a CF based forum, I would use galleon, or http://www.rinium.com/ Or just forgo CF and use one of the more popular ASP or PHP forums. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Jason Crider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2006 14:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: fusetalk Was going to ask what everyone's experience with fusetalk has been, because I have a live demo with them in 45 minutes. Just went to their site...www.fusetalk.com and noticed they are having a bit of trouble with a hacker. What's the experience been for everyone with fusetalk 3, if you've used it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240079 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
