Hi MRO,

On 2024-05-16 06:13:16, you wrote to me:

 >>  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.

 MR> are you a sysop? you can use your twitfilter to block them.
 MR> that's the best way to do it. as a sysop you decide what you have on
 MR> your system.

It's the responsability of the originating systems sysop what they allow to be send into the net from their system. Certainly if they have the means to control it. It's rediculus to make it everybody elses problem...

 >>  MR> it's up to the sysop to police their own bbs. you can't do it all
 >>  MR> for 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).

 MR> Are they spammers bots or real people? i thought they were real
 MR> people.

Without access to the logs of the originating systems it's hard to tell...

 MR> having people blocked by default from posting is something that should
 MR> be a sysop decision, not a default bbs setting.

Whatever the default is, it is still the sysops decision, how he sets this setting.


Bye, Wilfred.

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