Subj : Re: Rougue bot
To   : Atreyu
From : apam
Date : Tue Nov 09 2021 08:58 am

 > And as both an FTN developer and Sysop of a busy Hub system I have
 > suggested to James to ignore such asinine requests.

....

 > "When bots go wild" has never been a prevalent problem, its the sole
 > problem 
 > of one incompetent Sysop. It is not the responsibility of an author to
 > sit
 > at the console writing all sorts of code, wasting all sorts of
 > man-hours to
 > fix the incompetence of one Sysop.

It might not happen very often, and the problem might be caused by one
incompetent Sysop, but it's everyones problem, at least everyone who got
~8000 of the same message in their base.

It's not a hard thing to keep a file with a rolling log of message content
hashes along with a time received, and acting accordingly.

It's also not fixing the incompetence of one sysop, it's building
resilient software, that can handle the incompetence of one sysop.

 > How do I handle it here? I don't. I let the mail flow, use the "Next"
 > key 
 > to skip crap I don't want to read and let others flame that
 > incompetent Sysop.

Ok, so press next 8000 times. I don't think anyone is flaming that
incompetent sysop, as people make mistakes.. but it would seem that 8000
of the same message coming through at several a minute, would be
something software could be built to handle, especially at the hub level.

Andrew
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