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 Message 15196 
 Michael J. Ryan to Alonzo 
 Re: Donations 
 11 Jan 23 19:05:54 
 
INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3
REPLYADDR tracker1@roughneckbbs.com.remove-this
REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP
MSGID:  9b4b2b6b
REPLY: 1:124/5014.0 4e5b4e46
PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
On 1/7/23 06:48, Alonzo wrote:
 > My board doesn't get any real callers, but I get a constant barrage of
 > people trying to break in.

Most likely automated scripts... Not sure how difficult it would be...
but you could simply drop any terminal connections that don't detect at
least ANSi support.  Since the automated scripts most likely don't.

This may of course limit a handful of real users with older terminal
appliances.

IIRC, Synchronet's login.js does this by default now.

--
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com

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