Subj : duplicate name
To   : mark lewis
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Thu Jul 06 2017 07:43:00

-=> mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity on 07-06-17 05:56 <=-

 ml>  On 2017 Jul 05 15:51:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> here's your problem... it is the exact same problem that bill
 ml>> mcgarrity had just a week or so ago... those "!" are negations which
 ml>> means that anyone with a name other than huawei is blocked... remove
 ml>> the two "!"... you also have juantech in there twice...

 ml>> where are you guys getting these names from?? how can two of you end
 ml>> up with the same problem like this??

 BM> It came from a login someone was using, that's why I orginally added
 BM> it not knowing the ! would create problems. Maybe that was the reason
 BM> they were using it, to get banned so the system would get buggy.

 ml> hunh? they used that at the name prompt? interesting... i haven't seen
 ml> any bot related attempts using anything other than numbers and
 ml> letters...

Yup and being someone else had it also, it just confirms it.  Maybe there is
light at the end of the tunnel if Rob would consider hard-coding any login name
starting with a ! not be allowed period and if the same IP does it say 3 or 4
times, their IP gets dumped into the IP.CAN file.  Just a thought.

 
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