I am still checking to see what he might have posted from CCO yesterday. I am a little miffed he was even able to log on and create an account as the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file.

Well, huh, that name sounds familiar as a relatively-recent addition on my board, too.

But I think I have it set so that new users can't immediately post, and since his new-user message was underwhelming or non-existent, I didn't bother to upgrade the account, either.

But, honestly, I've mostly forgotten how I've set things, so time to go and see if he just didn't do something annoying on my BBS, or if he was unable to do much.

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Hopefully, that at least kept his posts from going out but I shall soon see.

...and to follow up on my previous message, possibly my setting post limits to s20g2 for FTNs stopped him.

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Hopefully that doesn't put off too many users, but does put off the spammers / scammers / awful people doing awful things.

Though I did tend to think that this corner of the online world was mostly away from that, because it's unusual technology with almost no return on time invested.

Always annoying when that doesn't turn out to be the case.

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Hello Adept,

On Tue, Apr 23 2024 21:03:48 +0000, you wrote:

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Hopefully that doesn't put off too many users, but does put off the spammers / scammers / awful people doing awful things.

Seems to me like a good plan. I would imagine if a user wants to post, they would probably write you and either ask for access to do so, or ask why they currently can't. ;)

Though I did tend to think that this corner of the online world was
mostly away from that, because it's unusual technology with almost no return on time invested.

Always annoying when that doesn't turn out to be the case.

This turd seems to be calling a bunch of BBSs to see which ones he can get away with what he's doing.. and with that said, it doesn't really seem like someone brand new to BBSing, if he can make his way through multiple BBSs to spam the same post over and over.

Regards,
Nick

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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On 23 Apr 2024 at 05:13p, Accession pondered and said...

Hello Adept,

On Tue, Apr 23 2024 21:03:48 +0000, you wrote:

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Seems to me like a good plan. I would imagine if a user wants to post, they would probably write you and either ask for access to do so, or ask why they currently can't. ;)

I have this type of set up at Agency, initial access does not allow posting only read access.

This turd seems to be calling a bunch of BBSs to see which ones he can
get away with what he's doing.. and with that said, it doesn't really
seem like someone brand new to BBSing, if he can make his way through multiple BBSs to spam the same post over and over.

Yes, I have wondered the same thing.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file. >

Well, huh, that name sounds familiar as a relatively-recent addition
on my board, too.

But I think I have it set so that new users can't immediately post,
and since his new-user message was underwhelming or non-existent, I
didn't bother to upgrade the account, either.

That is how I have it set on my Synchronet system. Here, he did post a new-user message and ironically (or not!) it included his paranoid rant!
<grin>




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That is how I have it set on my Synchronet system. Here, he did post a new-user message and ironically (or not!) it included his paranoid rant!
<grin>

I went back and looked, and, huh, yeah, single-line paranoid comment in mine. So I didn't change the security level, figuring I'd wait until there was a repeat visit.

Said visit never came, so I forgot about it.

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