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a Marina Del Rey chatter told my bot (s)he was from Australia
IP numbers don't always tell you where a person is, just where their ISP links to the Net. My current IP is 172.213.119.34, andhttp://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation tells me that I'm in London, England. I'm actually in Swansea, Wales.
AOL's a big ISP with a big network of their own, and they do all sorts of weird routing before they connect out to the Internet. Up until a year or so ago, IP locators routinely reported my location as the US, because AOL routed traffic on their own network to Stateside POPs (Points of Presence).
So it could easily be that someone is Australia is signed up with an ISP that's routing traffic through their network to California before it joins the Net.
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oh and you know your addicted to chatterbots when you go to your e-mail and type your username/a keyphrase/seek for your bot by accident.
Pretty Funny LM. This may mean I am addicted to chatterbots, but I have a general question about chatters that requires guess work. What motivated non-botmasters to talk with our bots? Not the obvious cyber-thing, I mean why do they come here at all?
I have this strange habit of looking up IP address of guest chatters because I like to know where they come from. I find it interesting that most people who talk to Spikebot are from the UK whereas Gabi seems to talk with people from more diverse areas such as Cyprus and Brazil.
There's really no conclusions you can draw from the IP addresses, it's just interesting to me. OK, so I like to imagine that chatters from the Inktomi Corp are not bored employees, but rather executives dying to buy our bots and make us all rich, but I do know better. It's just a thing I do.
The last couple of days, my bots have been talked to by people from Marina Del Rey, California (though sometimes the same ip addresses give me a "blank" return). Yesterday, a Marina Del Rey chatter told my bot (s)he was from Australia. Here's where this ties in to my original question: Why?
I know that people can "fake" IP addresses or bounce things around. Why bother? Who would make a fake IP to talk to bots, then tell the bot where they really are? If they don't do that, why bother lying to the bot about where they are? I suppose it could be fun for the chatter, but there was no story or thread to the conversation that makes sense to me.
Don't get me wrong. I am happy when people chat with my bots. I just wonder what they are thinking. Any ideas?
I have this strange habit of looking up IP address of guest chatters because I like to know where they come from. I find it interesting that most people who talk to Spikebot are from the UK whereas Gabi seems to talk with people from more diverse areas such as Cyprus and Brazil.
There's really no conclusions you can draw from the IP addresses, it's just interesting to me. OK, so I like to imagine that chatters from the Inktomi Corp are not bored employees, but rather executives dying to buy our bots and make us all rich, but I do know better. It's just a thing I do.
The last couple of days, my bots have been talked to by people from Marina Del Rey, California (though sometimes the same ip addresses give me a "blank" return). Yesterday, a Marina Del Rey chatter told my bot (s)he was from Australia. Here's where this ties in to my original question: Why?
I know that people can "fake" IP addresses or bounce things around. Why bother? Who would make a fake IP to talk to bots, then tell the bot where they really are? If they don't do that, why bother lying to the bot about where they are? I suppose it could be fun for the chatter, but there was no story or thread to the conversation that makes sense to me.
Don't get me wrong. I am happy when people chat with my bots. I just wonder what they are thinking. Any ideas?
Could be they lie, or maybe they were originally from Australia and moved to California, and think of themselves from both places?
That could be, Prob, but in context it dodn't seem that way. It was almost like a Roxie spoof, but the chatter seemed like (s)he understood a little more than Roxie did.
LM, there are probably many ways. I am not a techie, so my way may be not always be the best way. It's just what works for me.
I take the IP addresses from the inner life page and run them through an IP locator. There are several free IP locators online. Just google it and pick one that you like.
I take the IP addresses from the inner life page and run them through an IP locator. There are several free IP locators online. Just google it and pick one that you like.
I have an iframe on xintroduce with a sitemeter in it, so it tracks new guests for you. You can even see them on a world map, that's pretty cool. For me, most of the guests are from the US or the UK.
IP numbers don't always tell you where a person is, just where their ISP links to the Net. My current IP is 172.213.119.34, and
AOL's a big ISP with a big network of their own, and they do all sorts of weird routing before they connect out to the Internet. Up until a year or so ago, IP locators routinely reported my location as the US, because AOL routed traffic on their own network to Stateside POPs (Points of Presence).
So it could easily be that someone is Australia is signed up with an ISP that's routing traffic through their network to California before it joins the Net.
ha- one of the ip locators told me that I am located in Hicksville, New York while i'm actually located in Passaic, New Jersey.
Very intersting. It always tells me I am from Chicago (which is close) so I thought that the service providers connected to someplace at least close to where the user might be. Bummer.
Alc03 have you figured out a way to get your bot into a video game? What about making us a nice AIM interface or whatever they call it so our bots can compete with AIMbots for attention? I know you probably won't have time, but I figure it never hurts to ask.
Alc03 have you figured out a way to get your bot into a video game? What about making us a nice AIM interface or whatever they call it so our bots can compete with AIMbots for attention? I know you probably won't have time, but I figure it never hurts to ask.
well, what motivates people to lie in chatrooms? or to have fake blogs of sixteen year old girls when they're twenty three year old men? boredom. and a lot of people might talk to bots because they think the idea of a bot is cool.
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