To: Rick Smith
  Re: Internet spam
  By: Rick Smith to Jas Hud on Tue Sep 26 2023 05:28 pm

 >
 >  JH> do you know what bots are?
 >
 > Of course I do, I was just pointing out that it was wrong of me to shut off
 > web access as a new user or a bot could do the same damage via telnet if
 > they really wanted to..
 >
 > Regards,
 >

you're just pointing out that you do not know what happens on your system nor do
you know what measures to take to prevent attacks.

There are things you can do to prevent spam bots from creating accounts via your
web and then posting.

The same is true to your telnet end (which is less likely to have this issue)
 >  a bot could do the same damage via telnet if
 > they really wanted to..

bots don't have wants.

I don't entirely blame YOU, i blame the synchronet developers.  years ago I said
it's not a good idea to have our msg bases open up on the web and be defaulted
to be readable by bots.   they agreed but said it was 'cool' so kept it.

Despite that, the fact is, we are responsible for our own systems.  We should
know them and know how to prevent attackers.
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