On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:37 pm, Patrick McFarland wrote: > Unfortunately, yes. And several more have been flooded in the past few > hours. However, I don't think banning Tor (or as lilo puts it, "Temporary > ban") is the answer. It is not up to opers to ban Tor, because channels > themselves can deal with Tor users on their own. Why hamper legit users > when maybe one or two are actually causing problems?
Floodbots cause a lot of problems, though. It's not just in the interest of said channels getting flooded, you see. A floodbot on an IRC network creates a lot of waste traffic for all servers which receive the messages those bots send out. A temporary ban is probably the best solution in this case, and while it does hamper a few legitimate users, it also keeps the network afloat. Maybe Tor should look into the problem of malicious users. > imo, Tor is very important for free software. In my opinion, it is very unimportant for free software. It's important for people who can't IRC for whatever reason. Thank you. -- Bryan D. Stine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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