Subj : Re: hackers
To   : Kidd Wicked
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jan 20 2023 04:56 am

On 17 Jan 2023 at 10:39a, Kidd Wicked pondered and said...
 
 KW>   And not to beat a dead horse on this subject. But if bbs's were
 KW> totally open and no logon credentials, You would have to have 1000+
 KW> nodes to account for the bots taking up nodes.

No one cares about BBSes.  Seriously.  Statistically speaking,
the total number of BBS users is in the noise around 0% globally.

BBSes are basically useless for botnets or whatever; most bots
mindlessly try to run a few commands and automatically disconnect
if they don't work.  Listen on a nonstandard port if the noise
bothers you, but the idea that bots are going to suck up BBS
capacity is unsupported by evidence.

For that matter, node limits and timeouts are an anachronism.
I suspect they survive in the "modern" BBS era simply because
that's how things have always been done.

 KW> And if privacy is your
 KW> issue. FREE email account that is not linked to you. FAKE real name. VPN
 KW> which if you were smart you would already be using. FREE SMS via TEXTr
 KW> to validate a number to gain access. There, now yow can try before you
 KW> buy, yo yo yo!! the pirate way of life for me!!

Harder to link to you, perhaps, but that's different than "not."

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