Well I think this thread was answered satisfactorily (thanks) and we now how to educate users as to how to report abusive hidden hosts. Don't you love it when things work and when comments or concerns get rectified :P May we all have a happy and healthy new year. stoney`
At 03:24 AM 1/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Wouldn't a time stamped log directly to cservice allow cservice to take action against people abusing hidden host? I note that X tracks my real ip/host, and has a valid e-mail address for me. I also note that cservice tracks IP's well enough that single users possessing multiple username's have to be very careful about who they authenticate as/what IP they authenticate from when supporting new channel registration. It seems that all the tools are in place to have cservice do a quick review of complaints/logs, and take action as they, the provider of the hidden host, deem necessary. They could remove the usernames of those abusing, 'blacklist' e-mail addresses of abusers/abusers domain's, etc. I believe all of this is already happening for user/channel registration. Although not ideal, it seems a small step to have cservice report to ISP's/admins if the complaints indicate that would be the proper course of action.
Py Fivestones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
