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. > > -- > James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > _______________________________________________ > vanilla-list mailing list > vanilla-list at us.netrek.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com