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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: walkin on January 03, 2008, 12:09:26 PM
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Can somebody please explain to me what is the purpose of using (stealing) someone's nick name. I can understand if they use my name around because of my credits, but when I find four (4) of them on my queue, I just don't know what to think. And there should be a way to prevent such practice. Putting their IPs in ipfilter helps only momentarily. Thank you and Happy New Year.
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Sorry, but I do not think you have understood very well. Could you explain? What is your specific problem?
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Some leecher clients use(d) a community and membership of this community was identified by a certain addition to the user name. e.g. "name [community]"
When another leecher copied the name, he was recognized as a member of the community and got a community bonus.
I don't think any leecher still uses this (very insecure) system, but obviously there are still some clients who try to exploit this. Says a lot about the author. ;)
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Thank you all.
Here is a bit more: I often find users on my queue list with my very unique nick name. It's not Franz or something that ten other people would use. Even that I think is not possible. Client details show that some use aMule 2.1.3 that I use, some have other clients. They have different IPs. This morning there were 4 users with my nick on queue. Two had secure ident: failed. I know that it's userhash that matters, but I still find it strange. I'm on Ubuntu 6.10 - Edgy.
Regards, walkin
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As already told, they are called nick stealer, and are considered leecher. aMule has not any anti-leecher system, so you cannot ban them, nor reduce their score. Me too, sometimes I found people that tried to steal my nickname, but I was on eMule, and they got banned (or stuff like this). You shouldn't worry about, anyway...