Hello, mark.

Wednesday August 13 2014 at 20:19, you wrote to me:

 ml>  On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

 SD>> Do any of you sysops have problems with callers from sdf.org?

 ml> in what manner?

Actual human callers.  I've had several call my system today and leave
"dead" accounts.  That's nothing new; I expect that from time to
time, but not all from a single system and within a tight time frame.  I do
offer guest access to my BBS (Maximus has a guest account built-in) so it's
not like anyone has to create a fake account to take a look around the BBS.

The only SDF caller that bothered to act like a human was the one that I
actually gave full access to but I'm keeping tabs.  He whined that I asked
"too many questions", so I responded that he should have used the
guest account if he didn't like it.  I think a lot of these calls are from
young people who are used to the anonymity of the Web and not the
close-knit community of a BBS.

I've seen other sysops over the years have problems with various
"users" of sdf.org so my hackles went up a bit when they
connected.  I mean, if I'm really worried about it, I can block sdf.org's
IP address(es) at my firewall to stop the system cold, but I'd just
wondered if others had had any problems besides automated ones.

Later,
Sean

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