Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam that crap.

I've now made it so you have to be manually verified before posting in the network bases on happyland.

:(

Andrew
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Re: Sorry
By: apam to All on Mon Apr 15 2024 07:32 am

Howdy,

Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam that crap.

I've been curios to know how this is done (I've seen it often).

Was wondering if it was a bot/web post kinda thing, but to do it via a telnet login seems a lot of effort for that topic.


...ëîåï
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Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam that crap.

I've now made it so you have to be manually verified before posting in the network bases on happyland.

Ok, whatever it was I didn't see it... I searched for happyland as a
keyword to display all posts with that origin, but nothing untoward...

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Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam that crap.

I've been seeing this on various boards but thinking to myself it wouldn't happen here..

I've now made it so you have to be manually verified before posting in the network bases on happyland.

Back in the modem days the call back verifier kept all this at bay. I don't currently have any kind of verification process since I haven't needed one.

Maybe I'll have to start manually verifying callers so this doesn't happen.

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I've been curios to know how this is done (I've seen it often).

Was wondering if it was a bot/web post kinda thing, but to do it via a teln login seems a lot of effort for that topic.

No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

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Hello Exodus!

14 Apr 24 21:48, you wrote to Deon:

No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out
info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

Can you share the IP address, (Via netmail)?


Vorlon


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Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam
that crap.

I've now made it so you have to be manually verified before posting in
the network bases on happyland.

No worries - I have success with setting FTNs to s20 (or validated) and requiring email verification first. Most bots don't wanna do that step - altho I bet they easily could... hmmmm.



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Can you share the IP address, (Via netmail)?

95.24.14.11

No point of netmail.

... Time and distance are out of place here.

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Exodus wrote to Deon <=-

No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out
info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right
to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

What message base/echo was this spam in? Didn't notice anything here.



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No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out
info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right
to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

What message base/echo was this spam in? Didn't notice anything here.

They logged in here (a month or so ago), and posted in 10th Amendment FidoNet echo then logged off ... I was like whatever. Delete.

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Ok, whatever it was I didn't see it... I searched for happyland as a keyword to display all posts with that origin, but nothing untoward...

It was in the space and music sections

Andrew


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Re: Re: Sorry
By: Exodus to Deon on Sun Apr 14 2024 09:48 pm

No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

Yep, he even posted on the oneliners here... I also blocked their IP in my router.

95.24.14.11

Andrew
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Re: Re: Sorry
By: Exodus to Vorlon on Sun Apr 14 2024 10:30 pm

Can you share the IP address, (Via netmail)?

95.24.14.11

I blocked *.broadband.corbina.ru because of this disturbed person.
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Exodus wrote to Gamgee <=-

No, it's a person, they had to his esc twice, logon new, fill out info, name, age, forgot password question, etc. Then went right
to a random message base and posted crap. Blocked the IP here.

What message base/echo was this spam in? Didn't notice anything here.

They logged in here (a month or so ago), and posted in 10th
Amendment FidoNet echo then logged off ... I was like whatever.
Delete.

Ahhh OK, don't read that echo so I didn't see it.



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Sorry about the spam from my system. He logged in via telnet to spam
that crap.

I am still checking to see what he might have posted from CCO yesterday.
I am a little miffed he was even able to log on and create an account as
the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file.

Hopefully, that at least kept his posts from going out but I shall soon
see.



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Can you share the IP address, (Via netmail)?

95.24.14.11

Same one they used here. Real name Lesley Thompson.



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It was in the space and music sections

Oddly, the post in Music didn't get here, but the one in Space did. Oh
well, no real harm. ;)



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Re: Sorry
By: Blue White to apam on Mon Apr 15 2024 09:57:24

I am still checking to see what he might have posted from CCO yesterday.
I am a little miffed he was even able to log on and create an account as
the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file.

Hopefully, that at least kept his posts from going out but I shall soon
see.

OK looks like the only message he was able to post (at least in any areas I read here) was the new user msg to sysop. The twitlist appears to have done its jobs.
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Thanks, going to add.

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Ahhh OK, don't read that echo so I didn't see it.

I don't either, but I saw in the logs this "new" person posted, and I was like IN THAT ECHO? So I went and saw.

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Thanks, going to add.

!??!!? You didn't quote so I have no idea what you were referring to.

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Hi Exodus,

On Sunday April 14 2024, Exodus said to Vorlon:

Can you share the IP address, (Via netmail)?

95.24.14.11

Thanks... IP now in firewall... Not that my actual bbs auto exports, as
that's still a manual thing (Due to the way it's setup)....

He seams to be getting this crap out via synco system's... Wondering if most
of them are on autopilot? OR new users can post to echo's by default?



\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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Oh,
It was your release party victory. Keep on making!

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He seams to be getting this crap out via synco system's... Wondering
if most
of them are on autopilot? OR new users can post to echo's by default?

It is mostly synchro systems but not only. I suspect that is because
synchro and mystic are most popular more than anything. About the same
time he hit apam, he also got some out from a non-intel system that is
not running either of the above.

At first I thought maybe he had a script that worked with synchro prompts
but no longer think that.



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On 16 Apr 2024, Blue White said the following...

At first I thought maybe he had a script that worked with synchro prompts but no longer think that.

he has responded before when we trash talked him.. so it may well be fully manual

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At first I thought maybe he had a script that worked with synchro

prompts

but no longer think that.

he has responded before when we trash talked him.. so it may well be
fully manual

Now that you mention it, I do remember interacting with him/her/it after
the first time they posted, and they did respond. The response was odd
but it was a response.

Speaking of odd responses, someone did have an AI bot running on Dovenet
for a while that would attempt to answer questions about Synchronet, and sometimes it responded rather oddly. You could also converse with it, so
there is that. ;)


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I am still checking to see what he might have posted from CCO yesterday. I am a little miffed he was even able to log on and create an account as the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file.

Well, huh, that name sounds familiar as a relatively-recent addition on my board, too.

But I think I have it set so that new users can't immediately post, and since his new-user message was underwhelming or non-existent, I didn't bother to upgrade the account, either.

But, honestly, I've mostly forgotten how I've set things, so time to go and see if he just didn't do something annoying on my BBS, or if he was unable to do much.

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Hopefully, that at least kept his posts from going out but I shall soon see.

...and to follow up on my previous message, possibly my setting post limits to s20g2 for FTNs stopped him.

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Hopefully that doesn't put off too many users, but does put off the spammers / scammers / awful people doing awful things.

Though I did tend to think that this corner of the online world was mostly away from that, because it's unusual technology with almost no return on time invested.

Always annoying when that doesn't turn out to be the case.

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Hello Adept,

On Tue, Apr 23 2024 21:03:48 +0000, you wrote:

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Hopefully that doesn't put off too many users, but does put off the spammers / scammers / awful people doing awful things.

Seems to me like a good plan. I would imagine if a user wants to post, they would probably write you and either ask for access to do so, or ask why they currently can't. ;)

Though I did tend to think that this corner of the online world was
mostly away from that, because it's unusual technology with almost no return on time invested.

Always annoying when that doesn't turn out to be the case.

This turd seems to be calling a bunch of BBSs to see which ones he can get away with what he's doing.. and with that said, it doesn't really seem like someone brand new to BBSing, if he can make his way through multiple BBSs to spam the same post over and over.

Regards,
Nick

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On 23 Apr 2024 at 05:13p, Accession pondered and said...

Hello Adept,

On Tue, Apr 23 2024 21:03:48 +0000, you wrote:

New users can read, but not post, on my BBS, unless it's local.

Seems to me like a good plan. I would imagine if a user wants to post, they would probably write you and either ask for access to do so, or ask why they currently can't. ;)

I have this type of set up at Agency, initial access does not allow posting only read access.

This turd seems to be calling a bunch of BBSs to see which ones he can
get away with what he's doing.. and with that said, it doesn't really
seem like someone brand new to BBSing, if he can make his way through multiple BBSs to spam the same post over and over.

Yes, I have wondered the same thing.

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the name he used -- Pengo -- is in the twitlist.cfg file. >

Well, huh, that name sounds familiar as a relatively-recent addition
on my board, too.

But I think I have it set so that new users can't immediately post,
and since his new-user message was underwhelming or non-existent, I
didn't bother to upgrade the account, either.

That is how I have it set on my Synchronet system. Here, he did post a new-user message and ironically (or not!) it included his paranoid rant!
<grin>




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That is how I have it set on my Synchronet system. Here, he did post a new-user message and ironically (or not!) it included his paranoid rant!
<grin>

I went back and looked, and, huh, yeah, single-line paranoid comment in mine. So I didn't change the security level, figuring I'd wait until there was a repeat visit.

Said visit never came, so I forgot about it.

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