[Opensim-users] Hypergrid

[core]

The proper etiquette in this situation would have been to clearly
identify a bot that slinks about the hypergrid through gates provided BY
the bot's creator as 'friendly' - and make this fact and the bot's
intentions/purpose publicly known.  It's the sort of transparency that
is inherent in OpenSim's basic design (and philosophy) and should be
understood and embraced by the larger development community.

For the properly paranoid - rather than disabling hypergrid , remove the
gate.  No more spybot.  The 'hurry, everyone barricade the doors and
shutter the windows' approach is archaic and counterproductive.  Just
keep things open and up front as they should be and we'll move forward
faster.

- core/jason

On 12/16/2011 5:16 PM, M.E. Verhagen wrote:
> You banned a bot avatar wich apparently is doing nothing ?
>
> Yeah imagine that the bot has strange intensions. Could but true.
>
> In fact a hypergrid enabled grid has an open door, that means they can
> hypergrid to your grid withouth having an account on your grid.
> But no one i forcing you to enabling the hg. You could disable it so
> that no bad bots can enter your grid withouth having an account on
> your sim.
>
>
>
>
> Op vrijdag 16 december 2011 schreef Jigs (Jigs at westernprairies.net
> <mailto:Jigs at westernprairies.net>) het volgende:
> > From: Shaun Erickson <ste at smxy.org <mailto:ste at smxy.org>>
> >
> > "Actually, kiddpiko had told me, more than a year ago, as I recall,
> when I
> > figured out what it was, to not tell anyone. No idea why, but I
> think it's
> > silly to keep people in the dark."
> >
> > I see, I did eventually peg it for some kind of bot, but with unknown
> > intentions. Now you and hopefully hypergates see the negative results of
> > doing this.
> > I'm not a "paranoid" type but having owned regions in SL and dealt with
> > many griefer types and script kiddies, I do tend to carry over the
> > "guardiness" connected to seeing avatars from a foreign grid with
> strange
> > names- either griefy sounding ( iKi11U at ll  would be a good example) or a
> > pornstar sounding name- lets face it, a name like Sweet.JaneX has a
> > definite ring to it in that direction... landing on my regions
> repeatedly
> > over months, doing odd things, and then vanishing at every attempt
> to make
> > contact.
> >
> > Hopefully they will change this after reading my email about this.
> >
> > I reactivated the HG ability in one instance, but not the gate
> itself, at
> > least at this time.
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