Subj : Re: Bug in Renegade's Renemail
To   : Nick Andre
From : Gene Buckle
Date : Tue Jun 26 2018 02:30 pm

  Re: Re: Bug in Renegade's Renemail
  By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Tue Jun 26 2018 03:09 pm

 > If a non-ANSI user calls here, I know that 99% of the time its a script-kid.
 > So I added a CAPTCHA; meaning, type the phrase you see. If you answer wrong,
 > your IP address is blacklisted in the NET2BBS "kill" file. A blacklisted
 > system is trapped and disconnected before the BBS loads. I write a
 > seperate process that resets the kill file once a week in the case of a
 > false-positive.

Nice solution!  I just tweaked Synchronet's logon.js (login?) to terminate the
connection if the user name was any number of ones that the skids typically
use. (root, admin, etc..)

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