on 08 Feb 2021, ryan said...
I think distortion's implementation of the 'esc' challenge is that any /other/ keypress will result in a dropped carrier, right? This is
probably pretty effective.
Yep. The other implementation I referred to gives the user x keypresses (I think it's 10? it's been a while since I wrote that script) before disconnecting them, so it's a bit less brutal and probably still just as effective.
I have the dual esc/dual tab config with a 15 second timeout. It's probably annoying but I'm the only person that logs into my board anyway and I fear change. So it's here to stay. muahaha.
Ha! Yeah, well, I think most BBS people wouldn't blink at being asked to hit escape twice, of course. It's the newcomers who I think would be most
affected. I'm probably making this sound like a bigger deal than it is, I'm just explaining my own thought process for why I did it the way I did it.
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