[Opensim-users] List of banned viewers for config files?

[drwhiet at spacefriends.de]

Hi Akira,

Why are you banning Singularity ? 

Best regards
Wordfromthe Wise 

On 13.08.2012, at 00:25, Akira Sonoda <akira.sonoda.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Fleep,
> 
> First, banning viewers is not a good thing, especially not on osgrid, because osgrid is here for testing the OpenSimulator under real life usage and as far as i know OpenSim wants to support all of the viewers floating around.
> 
> Buuuuut ... it is really annoying to have a sim crashing when you have a party with some 15 to 30 people partying. Therefore I enabled on one of the 50 sims i am maintaining, the following rules:
> 
> AllowedClients="Phoenix|Imprudence|Cool|Singularity|Firestorm|0.6.3"
> BannedClients="Singularity 1.7"
> 
> Those should support most of the used viewers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akirasonoda/7769188218/
> 
> Firestorm is in, because many people use it. This is the riskiest part because with my avatar i crash ( or at least produce ACK timeouts for all viewers ) the sims all the time using the latest Firestorm.
> 
> If you have your own grid, then you can apply viewer restrictions on grid level.
> 
> Take care,
> Akira
> 
> 
> 2012/8/9 Fleep Tuque <fleep513 at gmail.com>
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone was willing to share their list of banned viewers used in the config files for Opensim?  I don't know what the latest and greatest bad viewers are (or really any of them since I don't use them!), but if anyone has a good list, I for one would appreciate the info.   
> 
> For the record, I understand that the banned viewer list in the config can be overridden by a savvy griefer, so it's not air tight security, but I figure any effort to combat it doesn't hurt..
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> - Chris/Fleep
> 
> 
> Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
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