On 23 Dec 2020, T.J. Mcmillen said the following...
 
 TM> Yeah but it still fails to "show" ansi 95% of the time .... sometimes it 
 TM> works, most it doesn't.  I'm at a loss.  I hate having that crap in
 TM> Net2BBS turned on, but there are so many morons pinging port 23 (for
 TM> what, I have no idea) ....

If you're running on Windows, maybe check out this poweshell script to block
some of the problem areas:

https://www.gregsitservices.com/blog/2016/02/blocking-unwanted-countries-with-w
indows-firewall/

I blocked the usual suspects (China, Russia, Korea, Iran) but I was also
getting hammered from Italy quite a bit too.  Not enough to warrant blocking
just yet, but enough to take notice.

Jay

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