# Administrators, look out for this site.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 24, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647 "2001-07-24T17:58:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647/1 "2001-07-24T17:58:03Z")

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You might need to block the server at [http://www.boardreader.com/](http://www.boardreader.com/) . Their system not only harvests boards’ members’ email addresses, it also downloads every single message from the forums it monitors, wasting bandwidth. So far they only have car sites indexed, and I think they are all UBB and easyboard forums, but I thought you might like to know.

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647/2 "2001-07-25T05:00:59Z")

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Or, to make it easier, should you decide to look out for it, their IP address is 209.115.17.19.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647/3 "2001-07-25T12:15:16Z")

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Well, I don’t know if the SDMB is going to, but **I** just blocked their IP range on my site. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647/4 "2001-07-25T13:21:35Z")

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Thank you for the heads-up mblackwell.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/administrators-look-out-for-this-site/73647/5 "2001-07-25T13:41:51Z")

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Duly noted. Thank you very much.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator