Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To : Dumas Walker
From : Jas Hud
Date : Tue May 10 2022 06:41 pm
|03Quoting message from |11Dumas Walker |03to |11Jas Hud
|03on |1110 May 22 16:02:00|03.
> DW> I once had to change the javascript source to get the news program to do
> DW> something that IREX did. I did not submit it upstream because I did not
DW> kn
> DW> how at the time. I also didn't now how to code javascript but was able
DW> to
> DW> figure it out.
DW>
> well i dont know if you can count changing the javascript as modifying
DW> source.
> is it? i'm sure nick will say the opposite of whatever my opinion is.
DW>
DW> I would look at it this way... it was javascript that controlled one of th
DW> features of the system (the newserver) that likely would not have been
DW> there to change if the project was closed source. If it had turned out to
DW> be part of the C source, I could have tried to modify it there also.
DW>
yeah i edited that one to just filter out certain usenet spammers.
but now there's filters that work so well in a way i didn't even realize.
i probably didn't even need to do that and could have blocked the ip and it
would have looked for the ip when importing. i had no idea it worked that
way. i thought the ip blocking was for when people connected to your servers.
it extends to ips listed in newsgroups and emails.
... We're entering the Bond-Age, in more ways than one.
