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In article <1992Apr1.172238.23329@nic.umass.edu> a0s5108@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly) writes:

   If Joe Random User has such a problem he should address it at his site.
   Umass had the problem of actually getting a telnet port for legitimate
   system needs.  The Ops Manager looked at who was using the ports for what

The CIRCA department here at UF had this problem as well, and the
sysop basically looked at which port was being used the most and shut
it down completely, since most of the users were going to this
specific mud. (I am not going to say which one it was because I know
the implementor is not looking to advertise.)

   and determined that the problem was muds.  Myself and a friend concurred
   with his analysis *as wizes of a mud we were playtesting* and agreed with
   his solution.  Our mud is gone.  (OK, I lied, Pid has it on 2 tapes, and
   I have it on 2 tapes.)  And telnet is restricted between 8am and 5pm local.
   You can only access the 'default' ports during these hours.  A reasonable
   application of a clock-lock algorythm in response to a definable reasonable
   problem.  I would have posted said solution to JRU and told him to contact
   our OpsMan for the actual fix.
   PS:  I don't even know if the OpsMan knew we had the Diku up.  He green
   lighted it in his living room over a few Coors in a vuage hypothetical
   sense and to the best of my knowlege the mud came up n times at n<10

   -Neal

Running a mud myself, I keep an eye out for places that may be abusing
their privileges to play. If I ever have a sysop mail to me
complaining I will have no problems shutting down access from that
sight, since I am not really in this for the players benefit but
instead for the programming experience (The players are just a nice
side bonus. You can't beat being able to hack *and* being able to
associate with other people at the same time.) Fortunately they
haven't cut off telnet access in the CIRCA labs completely, but I do
have to agree with what the sysop did, since I sometimes had trouble
getting onto the system from lack of port connections.
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