[Freeciv-Dev] Re: authentication required (was: The guy from .algonet.se)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:23:52PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Reinier Post was heard to say:
> > > > > Well to be accurate, only one of the class C's they have for dailups 
> > > > > was
> > > > > blocked.  I have seen him on at least 3 class C's.  While I would like
> > > > > to see him go away as much as the rest of you, I think we need a 
> > > > > better,
> > > > > real solution for this kind of thing.  Ideas?
> 
> A lot of good ideas were said here about this problem.  As a former MUD
> administrator, i have some experience on the problems of nasty players
> wreaking havok on a game... :(

I haven't been following the discussion, but key-based authentication
isn't that hard to do... the disadvantage is that it does raise the
'barrier of entry' for new players...

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