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   Gene Buckle to Nick Andre   
   Re: Bug in Renegade's Renemail   
   26 Jun 18 14:30:35   
   
     Re: Re: Bug in Renegade's Renemail   
     By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Tue Jun 26 2018 03:09 pm   
      
    > If a non-ANSI user calls here, I know that 99% of the time its a script-kid.   
    > So I added a CAPTCHA; meaning, type the phrase you see. If you answer wrong,   
    > your IP address is blacklisted in the NET2BBS "kill" file. A blacklisted   
    > system is trapped and disconnected before the BBS loads. I write a   
    > seperate process that resets the kill file once a week in the case of a   
    > false-positive.   
      
   Nice solution!  I just tweaked Synchronet's logon.js (login?) to terminate the   
   connection if the user name was any number of ones that the skids typically   
   use. (root, admin, etc..)   
      
   g.   
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