Well that didn't work LOL. Earlier when I limited the Guests viewing permissions, I kept one forum open for them to view.... my MonteCarloSS.com News forum. I looked at my Who's Online list and this is what I see:

https://montecarloss.com/Guests.jpg

All those different IPs are now looking at one thread from 2006 in that News forum! It's like a swarm of bees. They all have differing User-agents.. some Windows based, some Linux, some Mac OS.

I then opened Guests back up to read threads and the flood gates opened once more, amassing 1200+ 'Guests' in the first 10 minutes.

For now.. I'm going to cut Guests off again from reading. Don't know what else to do.

Stress the system until it breaks. Hey.. it works for Spacecraft.. why not here?

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