Re: [Fgs-bs] Status and stuff

[Desired Username]

--- tps12 <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Desired Username wrote:
> > GUI).  Not checked in, partly because I'm not sure
> > where to put it.  I was going to try to hook the
> goban
> 
> I don't know if it has a place to go in the server
> CVS. Maybe a test/
> directory... Also, is it, like, a C library? Or a
> Python module or
> something?

I agree that it doesn't really fit in the server CVS
(unless it did admin stuff...).  OTOH, I'd hate to
send people somewheres else to get the only client
that works with our server.  But I guess we could make
a separate project for that.  Python and Tkinter are
Free, right?

> > Also, a thought.  If users can be banned from a
> room,
> > do we even need a "ban from server" option?  Did I
> > already ask this question?
> 
> I don't think we reached a decision before. I know
> there was a question of
> responding to DoS attacks, but my view is that
> that's something best
> handled by IP tables or whatever, and doesn't belong
> in the server code.

Right, I wasn't thinking it would be.  But the DoS
question came up in response to your saying that we
would "waive the right to ban any user for any
reason".  In a sense that would be right, but
practically speaking if they are blocked at the IP
level they are banned from their account.  

I'm trying to come up with a way to say this: "'The
community' can censor you and even toss you out of a
particular room but you can only be blocked from the
server entirely if you launch some kind of
DoS/exploitation attack."

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