Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to MRO on Thu May 16 2024 11:42 am

 >
 >  MR> also this guy wasn't overly harmful or damaging to the network.
 >
 > There have been multiple posts in different echomail areas, by "different"
 > users, from different systems, for weeks now, all with the same content. I
 > find it annoying.
 >


are you a sysop? you can use your twitfilter to block them.
that's the best way to do it. as a sysop you decide what you have on
your system.
 >  MR> it's up to the sysop to police their own bbs. you can't do it all for
 >  MR> them.
 >
 > Of course. And as I said above, I'm not asking to limit the sysops options,
 > just change a default setting in new installations. It's probably an easy
 > change, and can prevent new inexperienced sysops, from having their systems
 > abused by these kind of spammers (or bots).
 >

Are they spammers bots or real people? i thought they were real people.
having people blocked by default from posting is something that should be a sysop decision, not a default bbs setting.
---
 þ Synchronet þ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::