Subj : Re: Bot Checker
To   : paulie420
From : Alonzo
Date : Tue Jun 20 2023 11:09 am

I do it a different way. Instead of having people slap the ESC key, I have my BBS set up as an ANSI-only BBS and in the login I have a brief intro and ask people to press the number 1 on their keyboards. This logs them in as ANSI. The extra step of having to press the number 1 on the keyboard slows the bots down quite a bit.

Of course they still call and call and call, but most of them don't make it to the actual login screen. After 3 failed logins, the get banned. 

.... Tech support is just a busy signal away

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