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. > > > > -- > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > vanilla-list mailing list > vanilla-list at us.netrek.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list >