Subj : So Roy Witt is your hero?
To   : Ross Cassell
From : George Vandervort
Date : Sun Dec 01 2002 05:44 pm

Hello Ross!

Saturday November 30 2002 16:53, Ross Cassell wrote to All:

<SNIP> RC> * Originally in FN_SYSOP
 RC>
 RC> Hello All!
 RC>
 RC> We have been through this before with Roy.
 RC>
 RC> I saw a user posting on my BBS come in via TELNET, I didnt see the log
 RC> on sequence, but I saw him enterring messages that resembled the Roy
 RC> Witt Vernacular. I knocked the user off, apparently not in time for
 RC> him to have gotten 4 messages into the MODERATOR echo... I am not
 RC> gonna just come out here and just tell you he did it, I will post the
 RC> proof.
 RC>
 RC> All my TELNET nodes create a SPY file, it creates a record of every
 RC> keypress made by a user. I also have a LOG file. Roy Witt logged on as
 RC> a DAN CEPPAHOLE, which many of you should remember as how he always
 RC> referred to Dan Ceppa as..
 RC>

Hmmm..
I ran a public Access BBS for over 18 years,
and one of the configuration options that I imposed,
was that all validated new users, were given "Read" privilages,
and ONLY got "Write Privilages" to local message area,
and required Sysop intervention, before given "WRITE" privilages to any Fidonet 
Echo topic that left my system, with my originline..

that solved a lot of potencial problems with
<Brain Dead or Wittless> characters logging on and gaining instant write 
privilages under any name..

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Regards,
George Vandervort - QuickPro & Fence_Post Moderator

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