> Seeing as how I've been missing in action for the past couple of
> months, I thought some people might be interested in knowing who's on
> my shitlist since the last time I posted. Here's the list of banned
> domains/IPs
>
[Snip list]

I think I recognize ihug!

> The bans are always added to the top first, so IP1 is the newest ban.
> As a matter of fact, the first IP is banned because the dumbass user
> from that net doesn't know how to setup a fscking FTP client. How hard
> is it to set retries to 45-75 seconds? Do you _REALLY_ think that in
> the time you're waiting for a retry that someone is going to connect?
> My god people, it's not that damn serious. It's not like my connection
> is going anywhere any time soon. If you really feel the need to hammer
> the life out of something, please spend your time flooding fserves on
> IRC instead of making me waste my time banning you, as well as making
> my FTP server block your connection attempt. The FTP server is set to
> block anyone who tries to connect more than 4 times in 30 seconds for
> 5 minutes. 4 times in 30 seconds is 7.5 seconds between retries on the
> average. You know, some servers ban you permanently for 2 retries in 1
> minute.

..........Can you explain to me why it's really important not to have
people try more then once to connect in a short period of time? It's just
a few bytes of data isn't it?

> With all that said, I'd like to shift gears a bit... I'd like to thank
> those users that have given back and uploaded stuff over the past few
> months. You know who you are. I hope to get yet another (or two) 60
> gig drive(s) in to replace my old 12 and 45 gig'ers that have been in
> this comp for some 2-3 years. I'm also in the market for a new
> connection. It seems that frame relay T1s are becoming very
> inexpensive (I've seen some at ~125$/mon). It sounds fairly steep to
> some, but considering that 3mbps/768kbps from my current ISP will cost
> something like 82$/mon, I much better get a non-capped 10mbps line
> (which some FR companies do provide). Wish me well in my hunt for the
> uber-connection...

Nice!
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