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- From: jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell)
- Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs !
- Reply-To: jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:40:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.054026.27606@cs.su.oz.au>
- References: <1ea59gINN5m4@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov18.125224.28316@ugle.unit.no>
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- In article <1992Nov18.125224.28316@ugle.unit.no> gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) wrote:
- |
- | /set exec_protection off
- | /on -notice nickserv /exec -msg echo help
- | /msg nickserv help
- |
- | Now watch him flood... (this one was tested on convserv because NickServ was
- | down when I tried it, but it should have the same effect on NicServ as on
- | ConvServ, or what?)
- |
- Gard,
- Ah it might help if you considered who is actually flooding.
- You are asking *serv for help.
- And then you are askign again and again and ...
- It seems to me you are flooding it with requests for help ...
- So if you get lots of answers back that is desirable, after all it is just
- recognising YOUR call for help.
-
- I do not think the authors of nickserv expected it to be abused,
- nickserv is older than this hassle with lame 'bots by lame people.
- It is probably possible to make tehm ignore duplicate requests from the
- same person in some time interval, but that could be a lot of code just
- to deal with sh1ts like ... you ? ... doing what you did.
-
- You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink.
-
- *sigh*
- Ernie
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