Hello, Eric.

Thursday January 27 2011 at 20:38, you wrote to me:

 EO> But why block entire countries when legitimate users might come from
 EO> these places?  Hackers are everywhere, probably even in your own
 EO> country..  If you wanted to be totally safe, you could block the
 EO> entire world if you wanted.. :P

In the 15 years I've run my BBS, I have never had a user from Egypt, Peru,
China, Taiwan or Jamaica.  Have you had users from there connecting to your
BBS?  No?  I didn't think so.

In fact, with the shutdown of the Internet in Egypt, the attacks have nearly stopped.

But I'm still putting countries into my firewall to block them.

Later,
Sean

... An unbreakable toy can be used to break other toys.
--- GoldED/2 3.0.1