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- UDL.DOC ver 1.0 Reveals those who take and do not give!
-
- With the help of some friends, I wrote this program because I got VERY tired
- of seeing users on Terrapin Station BBS login and go to the file system and
- take files for their entire alloted daily limit. If I had my way, the BBS
- would DYNAMICALLY allocate access levels that would be solely dependent on
- the users upload/download ratio to that point.
-
- i.e. -- if your ratio was not acceptable, your access for this session would
- be lowered, either denying further downloads (until some upload
- activity had occurred) or simply limiting your time allowed this
- call.
-
- Well, I didn't feel like messing with the RBBS code, so I (we) wrote this
- program to generate a bulletin called TAKERS. It creates a dated list of
- users who TAKE files. It is invoked with:
-
- UDL arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4
-
- where arg1 = lowest upload/download ratio to be considered
- arg2 = upload/download ratio to be flagged as in danger (arg2 >= arg1)
- arg3 = lowest user security level to be considered
- arg4 = highest user security level to be considered
-
- These command line arguments allow flexibility for your special needs. Just
- type UDL to see the programs defaults. You must at least supply <arg1>, i.e.
- the upload/download ratio, for the program to run. You are limited to
- 1000 lines in the bulletin, and the program should abort with ERROR MSGS if
- you go past this limit.
-
- Special thanks go out to Jerry Wallace for the users structure and basic
- input mechanism and to Bob Ray for the sorting routine.
-
- You can find all of us on TERRAPIN STATION BBS -- 612/623-0152!
- Terrapin is a BBS for programmers and techie types, running 24 hours a day
- using MultiTech 2400 baud (MNP error correcting) modems. Registration is
- required, and the sysop is concerned about user contributions to the system,
- whether they be $$ or files.
-
- Written in C using the Manx Aztec compiler version 3.20c by
- Howard Ekman -- sysop Terrapin Station BBS.
- 18:20:23 3/24/1986