Subj : Captcha
To   : Digital Man
From : MRO
Date : Thu Aug 05 2021 21:43:26

  Re: Captcha
  By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Aug 05 2021 11:53 am

 >   Re: Captcha
 >   By: MRO to Lord Blackfair on Thu Aug 05 2021 09:20 am
 >
 >  >   Re: Captcha
 >  >   By: Lord Blackfair to All on Wed Aug 04 2021 10:35 pm
 >
 >  >  >  Got it running, had to tweak some things.
 >  >  > made it start before anything else. then load the login matrix as a
 >  >  > xtrn_prog.
 >
 >
 >  > so you have something for the bots to sit there and perhaps loop back if
 >  > they enter any input.
 >
 >  > and your users have to enter a long number each time.
 >
 >  > i would rethink that.
 >
 > If his goal is to experiment with/learn Baja, then he's achieving that. If
 > the goal is keep bots from tieing up nodes, there's much easier solutions.
 > If the goal is prevent bots from trying to authenticate with a username and
 > password (why?), there's easier solutions (e.g. just prompt for a specific
 > key, like ESC).
 >
 > Actually letting a bot send a username and password is a good way to detect
 > and auto-block them and that support is built-into SBBS:
 > https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:block-hackers

and in my case i block all the ones that fail my challenge code. so, eventually the .can file gets so huge it slows down synchronet.
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