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  15     <B>Mark Hetherington</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] Suggestion">markh at eurodltd.co.uk
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  19     <I>Fri Mar 23 00:46:00 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i> &gt; Maybe emulate the system used for Car radios etc. After the
  35 </I>&gt;<i> first failure of
  36 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; 3 &quot;suspend&quot; the nickname for 1 hour, then 2 hours then 4 hours
  37 </I>&gt;<i> etc until it
  38 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; is ultimately locked out entirely and an admin has to take
  39 </I>&gt;<i> steps to restore
  40 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; the nickname to the user after sufficient authentication.
  41 </I>&gt;<i>
  42 </I>&gt;<i> A problem with this is that people then just try to identify to
  43 </I>&gt;<i> every nick there is, causing them all to be suspended and then no
  44 </I>&gt;<i> one can use NickServ...
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  46 Only possible if they know the nickname(s) and by limiting the list commands
  47 users cannot get to and try them all. Generally nickname attacks are against
  48 specific individuals for a reason not just to do it.
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  50 Mark.
  51 CTCP Networks.
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