TID: InterEcho 1.19 6E030205


MSGID: 1:19/33.0 2a80425a 
Mark,

ML>sure they'll go BBS hopping hoping to find another BBS with the same echo...
ML>back in the day, it was harder than today... if you lived somewhere with a l
ML>of BBSes it was as easy as it is today in that you could call all of them fo
ML>a
ML>local call... doing the hopping thing to get around a ban was one reason why
ML>sysops started talking to each other to be able to block users that were doi
ML>this... today many systems are available via telnet or ssh or similar so
ML>today's users can hop all around the world looking for BBSes with the echo
ML>they
ML>are blocked from...

  I know that the GatorNet Network has a "Sysop Blacklist Echo", but that's the
only "blacklist specific echo" I've seen. I guess the rest of them just deal
with it in their specific "Sysop echoes".

  Sadly, it's the small minority of users who make things difficult for
everyone else. It hasn't changed in the 25 years I've been a Sysop.

Daryl

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