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- From: bolwidt@fwi.uva.nl (Erwin Bolwidt)
- Subject: Re: A new (very simple) bot solution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.005416.12582@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:54:16 GMT
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- bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman) writes:
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- >spidy@acca.nmsu.edu (Da Spidy-Mon) writes:
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- >>Making it so that only one IRC session is used by only one LOGIN is still a
- >>good idea. I mean, most of the BOTS that are on the net are dead bots. No
-
- >No its NOT! Its a very bad idea. It has been said before, but this
- >would mean people will run more and more hacked clients which
- >fake the username. It also means, I could EASILY put up a user@host
- >pair for any arbitrary address, and thus succesfully locking that
- >person out of irc. Then we'll get the same shit with user/host
- >that we now have with nicknames.
- >*luser* can you please kill n3tl0ser, he's using my address.
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- I agree with Cor Bosman it's a bad idea.. if any developer went crazy and
- added such code to the server release, i'd be the first to change my server
- to add a dot and a serial number to the username. It's so simple... why
- are people always trying to police other peoples lifes instead of coming up
- with real solutions?
-
- Erwin Bolwidt
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- Erwin Bolwidt "Yes!" `O-O'
- <erwin @ mars.let.uva.nl> (_U_)
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