On 2018 Apr 19 14:08:06, you wrote to me:

 >> sites shut down because of that... one recent one that comes to mind,
 >> not related to fidonet, is a landclass database used to generate shape
 >> files for creating scenery meshes for a simulator... someone went in
 >> and was scraping the shape files via a script and burned up all the
 >> bandwidth so the guy shut down and removed the download capabilities so
 >> no one can get the shape files any more... they're not needed if one
 >> can query the database directly but that's rather frought with peril
 >> these days...

 GB> That sounds suspiciously like what transpired with FlightGear and
 GB> those "FGMEMBERS" assholes...

exactly!

 GB> (I host all their CI infrustructure with the exception of the
 GB> scenery...)

que? "CI"??

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it wrong...
... I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called?
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