Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : MRO
Date : Thu May 16 2024 06:13 am

 Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
 By: Wilfred van Velzen to MRO on Thu May 16 2024 11:42 am

>
>  MR> also this guy wasn't overly harmful or damaging to the network.
>
> There have been multiple posts in different echomail areas, by "different"
> users, from different systems, for weeks now, all with the same content. I
> find it annoying.
>


are you a sysop? you can use your twitfilter to block them.
that's the best way to do it. as a sysop you decide what you have on
your system.
>  MR> it's up to the sysop to police their own bbs. you can't do it all for
>  MR> them.
>
> Of course. And as I said above, I'm not asking to limit the sysops options,
> just change a default setting in new installations. It's probably an easy
> change, and can prevent new inexperienced sysops, from having their systems
> abused by these kind of spammers (or bots).
>

Are they spammers bots or real people? i thought they were real people.
having people blocked by default from posting is something that should be a sysop decision, not a default bbs setting.
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