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Watcher

Killed by watcher ? Here you can find the things NOT to do if you want to connect to Chat4All

What is Watcher?

We've installed a security system ("Watcher") to combat virus and drone connections. It works by awarding points for things in your details that look like a virus drone's nick, ident and fullname fields. This page is to help people who have been mistakenly killed as a virus drone get onto Chat4All with the minimum of hassle. To be killed by the service, your score must be above 7. Anything else, and the score will just be logged and you will be allowed to go on your way.

Points

To avoid being killed in the future here is a list of scoring systems used by the script so that you may adjust your details to get onto the network.

Negative Points

You get awarded for these connection details:

Nick contains a known dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

When symbols are removed, nick contains a dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

Ident contains a known dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

When symbols are removed, Ident contains a dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

Full name contains a known dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

When symbols are removed, fullname contains a dictionary word or human name

-3 points per word

Nick starts or ends with an alliance tag

-3 points

Nick is the same as ident

-3 points

Nick is the same as fullname

-3 points

Fullname is the same as ident

-3 points

Ident contains numbers

-3 points per number

Fullname contains numbers

-3 points per number

Fullname has symbols, e.g. $, !, ?.

-3 points per symbol

Ident contains a full stop ( . ), hyphen ( - ) or underscore ( _ )

-2 points per symbol

Fullname contains spaces

-1 point per space

Fullname has colour codes

-1 point per colour code

Nick contains numbers

-1 point per number

Negative scores are good, so try to get as many of these above points.

Positive Points

You get fined with positive points for these connection details:

Fullname ends with .com, .net, or .org

+ 5 points

Fullname starts with "sympatico.", "hotmail.", or "microsoft."

+ 4 points

Nick is only one character in length

+ 1 point

Nick is under 6 characters in length

+ 1 point

Nick is under 3 characters in length

+ 1 point

Ident is over 9 characters in length

+ 1 point

Fullname is under 13 characters

+ 1 point

Nick contains

• { (left curly brace)
• } (right curly brace)
• | (pipe)
• ` (backtick)
• ^ (caret)
• ] (right square bracket)
• [ (left square bracket)
• _ (underscore)
• \ (backslash)

+ 1 point per symbol

Nickname is over 50% symbols shown in rule 17

+ 1 point

Fullname is all letters with no spaces or symbols

+ 1 point

Ident is all letters, no symbols.

+ 1 point

Nickname contains NO numbers

+ 1 point

A reminder again that HIGH scores are BAD. So try to avoid any of these points...

EXAMPLES:

]]X|{|n{{ (EaPYAGW@1Cust159.tnt3.adl1.da.uu.net (Killed (Watcher (You have a scan score of 16 and 
are possibly an automated virus drone. 
Please read the following page for details of the scoring system and how to avoid this in the future: 
http://www.chat4all.org/manual-watcher_kill.html )))

}_u{b\{kW!PFHm@pcp05658396pcs.madsnh01.mi.comcast.net (Killed (Watcher (You have a scan score of 10
and are possibly an automated virus drone. 
Please read the following page for details of the scoring system and how to avoid this in the future: 
http://www.chat4all.org/manual-watcher_kill.html )))

]|[!RiT@203-217-92-226.dyn.iinet.net.au (Killed (Watcher (You have a scan score of 11 and 
are possibly an automated virus drone. 
Please read the following page for details of the scoring system and how to avoid this in the future: 
http://www.chat4all.org/manual-watcher_kill.html )))

still have questions? questions(AT)chat4all(DOT)net

Jay 18:33, 3 Dec 2004 (CET)
--FiXato 04:48, 11 Jan 2005 (CET)