Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p To : Dumas Walker From : MRO Date : Fri May 17 2024 03:46 pm Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p By: Dumas Walker to MSGRETIRED on Fri May 17 2024 10:09 am > > No I dont think we are that stupid. I will admit I had a spam user get > > access to my fidonet areas. I have since locked it all down. Maybe in your > > infinite wisdom, you could recommend a way to validate users so they can > > have access to > > Fidonet Message bases?? > > Back in time, I had a couple of users log on, act normal enough to get > access and then start spamming. "Pengo" logged on here as a regular user > and, had they not used the "Pengo" alias, I might not have caught on until > after they started spamming. > > Luckily, new users only have access to a few bases and, since they used the > "Pengo" alias, they are in the twitlist so no posts they might have been > able to make could go out through sbbsecho. > Well that bbs in norway where pengo was posting from, that sysop and all the other people are all the same guy. He even lied and said he blocked that person and when i was logged in there i saw that person login and they were in the msg areas. We got another case of crazy sysop syndrome. --- þ Synchronet þ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services ::: * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705) .