Zach,

The clue check idea is good, but you shouldn't clue check anyone who is
sending messages.

-Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zach" <vanillatrek at yahoo.com>
To: <vanilla-list at us.netrek.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Vanilla List] Observers are at 2 ups


> How about using the clue-check code and modify it for this
> purpose. Set a reasonable idle time (say 15 mins) and after
> that ask something such as "Send 'FOO' to yourself to
> verify you are an active observer", if they don't answer
> perhaps wait 5 more minutes and say "This is your final
> chance to answer...etc." and if they don't pass the check
> at that point reset the slot. Also it can send a message to
> server god or some logfile showing who was idle. If they do
> it say 3 times in some period of time temporarily ban them.
>
> Zach
>
> --- James Cameron <quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote:
> > I've not seen any new players observe.  But it has been
> > changed to 5,
> > default of 2.  If someone can come up with something more
> > advanced,
> > like moving to ten for one minute after a lock, I'd be
> > willing to use
> > it.  The problem is we seem to have observers who log in
> > and walk away.
> > There's no idle timeout.
> >
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> > James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org
> > http://quozl.netrek.org/
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