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| Yoni | BNLS no longer requires account registration. I will present this post in the form of a mini-FAQ. Q: What's BNLS? A: If you need to ask this, then this post is probably uninteresting to you. Go read the Fun Forum™ instead. Q: So there aren't accounts anymore? A: Actually, the accounts are still there. They're just no longer required. They are optional. Q: I thought accounts are only good for logging on BNLS. Why do they still exist if they're no longer required for that? A: Accounts have a little more functionality than that. They can be used to determine statistics, as in how many logins your bot has accumulated. Q: Will you make me a BNLS account? A: Probably not. Q: Why not? A: I don't wanna. Q: But I really need one because (reason). A: Contact me on Battle.net or leave me a private message. Q: I have an account. Will it be deleted? A: In a word: Probably. In detail: I'm going to purge the account list. If your bot is one of the popoular ones, I won't delete your account. If you use the statistical features, I won't delete your account. If you request that your account not be deleted, I might not delete your account. If your account has very little or no logins, I'll delete it soon (expect a follow-up to this post). Q: I am a bot author, and I use CleanSlateBot. Do I need to make any changes to my bot? A: No. Q: I want to use CleanSlateBot to create a bot. Can you make me an account? A: No. Q: Then what do I put in for username and password? A: Blank should work fine. Q: (Some other question with CleanSlateBot) A: No. Q: I don't use CSB. What changes were made to the BNLS protocol? A: The BNLS_AUTHORIZE (0x0e) + BNLS_AUTHORIZEPROOF (0x0f) sequence is no longer required. Note that if you use it, a response value for BNLS_AUTHORIZEPROOF (0x0f) has been added. It returns STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED, a new value of 0x01, if you ended up logging in anonymously (invalid ID or checksum). If you log in successfully, you get the old status code - STATUS_AUTHORIZED, which has the value 0x00. Q: Wait, so is it backwards compatible with the previous version of BNLS? A: Yes. Q: Yoni, will you marry me? A: No. More coming soon! See also the official protocol spec document. Edit: Typo / grammar. | June 28, 2004, 6:30 AM |
| Yoni | For the first phase of the purging, I decided to delete any BNLS account that had exactly zero logins to its name. In this phase, the following accounts were deleted: aafroger aax-BNLS aDDicT aFraiD aldee amplified Anodyne Aqua baroness BLAH_FREAK bnlsrob bnp brickbot ChronoBot coba1n Complex Conbot darktauren Defeat disease Dreamgun drivehapppy Erase Etheran eXXiLe_ g0dbot GDN HeXeD hism I3II3LE impulse jaquio Klonebot l2aven Laurion LivedKrad Lobo.iD Lodgebot mentalCo Mitosis Necrosis nslay Omega Pathofwar pileofcrap pr0phet Project RINCE Roost SasquatchBot scope senthyl ShoutBot sicchat SillyPuddy slaughter Smokey187 SoTP SWPro Tangela Thisistooboring tonline TwIsTs vkillerv Wolfchat Xerta xSCx This phase decreased the total amount of bots on the authlist from 280 to 213. 67 bot IDs (23.9% of the list) were deleted. Note: If for some reason you don't want your account to be deleted, tell me about it. (As I said in the previous post, if your account is of a popular bot or if you're using the statistics features, don't worry, it won't be.) If you see your account in the above list and want it revived for some reason, tell me about it. (I kept a backup of the entire list before purging, so I have all your passwords.) | June 28, 2004, 6:56 AM |
| Yoni | Note: Due to incompatibility with certain bots, I've swapped the values of the status codes STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED and STATUS_AUTHORIZED. STATUS_AUTHORIZED is now 0x00 as it was before, and STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED has the new value 0x01. The protocol spec and the first post in this thread have been edited accordingly. | June 28, 2004, 2:19 PM |
| Yoni | I've now deleted the accounts of the bots which haven't been active in the past ~4.5 hours and which have a total of less than 256 logins (why 256? Because it's a cool number). The accounts deleted now are: $talka 343132671 68695292 Archangel ArchonBot Atmalion BASICbot bg3killer BLiZZ BnetBot bnetmnky BNLCS BuddhaBot CatD CellRCBot ChewBot Chi CIAProductions co0kie coltz ConsumedBot CyB0Rg DarkenedMatter David DCLegnBot dead DeCa Devourer drive drivehappy Ekion eRb FalconK fapiko flabber Flux Force Freeware Fukc GoSuGaMING H2Hbot haze Holden integral Issues James2k3 KillaFrog Loada lobot LoGiC88 LoRdAcid MiniBot ModBot moof MsT networks Nodda4me Noodles OpticMouser PastaChat Path Phluxer PiMpChaT PlayBoy Polgara Rampage Raptor Reactor rhino scr SeedsofInsanity SentryBot SLM spam sty T5e5usuY tembot TheDeath theshoe159 thorbot Tubby vampgirl Vapor vegbot voodoo WaaaghTV war3pub wh0re Wolf woofer xwcx 4 more accounts (not listed above) were deleted for other reasons. This phase decreased the total amount of bots on the authlist from 213 to 117. 96 bot IDs (34.3% of the original list) were deleted. | June 28, 2004, 7:09 PM |
| Quarantine | Mine didnt delete yet. :) Im special | June 28, 2004, 7:12 PM |
| Yoni | [quote author=LW-Warrior link=board=17;threadid=7476;start=0#msg67615 date=1088449973] Mine didnt delete yet. :) Im special [/quote] I've now decided to delete all accounts whose password is identical to the username. That's awfully bad practice, guys! The following accounts have been deleted. emu nasty Warrior The number is down to 114. | June 28, 2004, 7:31 PM |