[IRCServices Coding] Some IMHO usefull features

[Craig McLure]

heh, in that case, prevent registration with the same email twice? instead 
of allowing it, invite them to use /ns link ;) then Mr. Bush will only 
recieve 1 email.. and gets a nickname on an IRC Network if he wants it ;)

>From: "Marc-Andre A. Fuentes" <nothing at psychopat.org>
>Reply-To: ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net
>To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
>Subject: RE: [IRCServices Coding] Some IMHO usefull features
>Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
>
>maybe a blacklist of email could be usefull for mail domains like
>"whitehouse.gov"
>i don't think mr. bush would like to receive an auth code for another nick
>:P
>
>On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Craig McLure wrote:
>
> > >From: "Ekim Engin" <ekim.engin at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> > >Reply-To: ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net
> > >To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
> > >Subject: RE: [IRCServices Coding] Some IMHO usefull features
> > >Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 04:53:03 +0200
> > >
> > > > 1, Personally, I dont see the point in this. If you ban an
> > > > email block, they
> > > > will just find another 1. for example, you cant ban
> > > > *.hotmail.com on a
> > > > network, so the "stupid kiddies" will just use something like
> > > > that. Just
> > > > insert a largish reg delay, it would mean they would have to
> > > > change their
> > > > IP, or wait for something like 60mins before being able to
> > > > register again.
> > > >
> > >
> > >Huge proxy atacks, or even more DDOS atacks registering 1 nick per hour
> > >with 500 hosts is quite disturbing. Services is sending out many mails
> > >(to adresses that do not exist) and we get the bounces. I implemented
> > >this feature on an earlier version of ircservices with the result, that
> > >the complete "registration atack" stopped. I reopend the ban 2 days
> > >after, and the atack continued on same speed. Ist is based on a one 
>time
> > >initialisation, spreadign out through a common used but backdoored
> > >script. Once started it does the registering crap all the time. 
>Akilling
> > >(or glineing) just results in the user getting banned. After he/she
> > >comes back, the script continues registering. The only thing common to
> > >this atacks is it uses alwas the same mail adresses. So I thought this
> > >as quite usefull, it's just a suggestion after all.
> > >
> > > > 2) Once again, i dont see a point for this feature. It would
> > > > make channels
> > > > prone to opwars, and takeovers. although the SUSPEND command
> > > > does do what
> > > > you ask, but i am unsure if it supports wildcards.
> > >
> > >Suspend does prevent registering AND using of the channel, while my
> > >feature suggestion just prevents registering. We came up with this
> > >feature afer every single channel gets registerd with 
>#ttnet_channelname
> > >(the network is called TTNet). As it is our Network policy that 
>channels
> > >starting with #ttnet may just be registerd by our network stuff, it is
> > >quite annoying to stop/drop/suspend these channels all the time, while
> > >with this feature does allow us to prevent this from scratch.
> > >
> > > >
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> > Once again, i see no way of preventing 1. If the feature is added to
> > services, a script like the following will be created:
> >
> > alias spam {
> > :loop
> > set %nick $rand(0,999999)
> > set %email $rand(0,9999999)
> > set %pass $rand(0,9999999)
> > /nick $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(A,Z) $+ $rand(a,z) $+ %nick
> > /ns register %pass %email $+ @hotmail.com
> > goto loop
> > }
> >
> > Its not likley that you can ban hotmail, as in excess 20% of any IRC
> > Networks users usually have a hotmail accounts :P
> >
> > although i agree with Suggestion 2.
> >
> >
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