Subj : Anyone connected here anymore?
To   : mark lewis
From : Gene Buckle
Date : Thu Apr 19 2018 14:08:07

  Re: Anyone connected here anymore?
  By: mark lewis to Janis Kracht on Wed Apr 18 2018 10:00 am

 > sites shut down because of that... one recent one that comes to mind, not
 > related to fidonet, is a landclass database used to generate shape files for
 > creating scenery meshes for a simulator... someone went in and was scraping 
 > the shape files via a script and burned up all the bandwidth so the guy shut
 > down and removed the download capabilities so no one can get the shape files
 > any more... they're not needed if one can query the database directly but
 > that's rather frought with peril these days...

That sounds suspiciously like what transpired with FlightGear and those
"FGMEMBERS" assholes...  (I host all their CI infrustructure with the exception
of the scenery...)

g.
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