>>>Any college or ISP unix server that isn't running identd is pretty much
>>>hosed by this.
>>>
>>>I'm not saying you can't run it, but a lot of college players tend to play
>>>from the same machine. I firmly believe that any public access unix system
>>>should be running some form of identd.
>>
>>The only problem with this is in the linux one there is a faily large bug
>>that lets you crash the server. (there might be a patch by now). I don't
>>know if this applies to other Unix o/s.
>
>Even if it crashes, you simply don't get a response. I highly doubt it'll
>crash, since that could be a security exploit.
>
>>Also as far as I know there is not one avalible for VMS (which I have to
>>run though to get to the net) which unfortuatly is still used by alot of
>>universitys (well defently here in the UK).
>
>There is, my University's OpenVMS runs one. (telnet miavx1.muohio.edu ident)
>
I will try to get my uni to run one..
>>My personal opinion is that the email address option is the best bet and
>>that is what we do on terminus. (term.ml.org 4000).
>
>Then you visit Hotmail, Yahoo, AltaVista, etc, etc ...
>
Then like us at terminus you don't accept these eather by code or staff.
This has worked on talkers for years so why not on muds?
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