Subj : Captcha
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 31 2021 12:26:15

  Re: Captcha
  By: MRO to Lord Blackfair on Sat Jul 31 2021 02:33 am

 > anyways, those bots will not solve your capcha. they will get confused and
 > sit on the connection.

Yup. Truth be told, you could just print "Hit ESC now to continue" and disconnect if the ESC key (or whatever key you like) isn't hit within a few seconds. No bot is going to hit the ESC key - problem solved. You don't really *need* to display/prompt for a random anything since nobody is going to build a BBS-specific bot (they just aren't a target of interest).

If you're running a recent build of Synchronet with a recent login.js, it'll disconnect dumb terminals (those not supporting ANSI or any other emulation) very quickly when no input is sent and that disconnect time is configurable.
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