-=> KK4QBN wrote to mark lewis <=-

 KK> Just as easy to zip it up and call it a new BBS door or some other cool
 KK> application you would want someone who keeps a constant 24/7
 KK> connections.. thats one reason I just completely decided to halt
 KK> uploads all together.. that photo.scr replicates itself also.. it's
 KK> really a mess if something activates it before virus scanner gets to
 KK> it.. my old xp machine could'nt keep up with running the whole load of
 KK> the BBS and a resident scanner too, so I completely done away with
 KK> uploads, then the BBS outgrew the old XP machine. It got to where it
 KK> would take 5-10 seconds to pull up a message on the website (that was
 KK> the main culprit of processing usage). it does so much better on my new
 KK> configuration.

Uploads to the sysop is the middle ground solution.  You can always move legit
files from there to wherever, if someone uploads something useful to other
users.  As for scanning, I have no concerns about the BBS (are there any
Linux/ARM viruses in the wild?), but having a virus scanner would be useful for
protecting users, if I was to handle a large number of files.  Will have to see
if ClamAV or similar is available for the Pi. :)

Doing away with uploads is a reasonable policy these days, given that the
Internet is a much bigger file repository than our BBSs could ever be.  Just
worth keeping around a few harder to get files. :)


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