Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Re: C Origins
From:    Shitty
Date:    Wed May 27, 2026 01:46

@VIA: ALCO
 Ni> I think an inactivity timeout is still very important these days.  These
 Ni> days, it's fairly common for botsto connect to a BBS via telnet, and
 Ni> without an inactivity timeout, they could just sit there and tie up the
 Ni> node.  Itwould be likely that bots could connect to all nodes on your
 Ni> BBS and tie them up so that users would be unable to log in.The
 Ni> inactivity timeout helps prevent that.

That makes sense, but it sounds like a BBS software shortfall. They shouldn't tie up a node until the user is authenticated. Wouldn't that fix it?

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