Are snooper users all violating the rules?

[Anubis]

"Anyone using a non-authorized client to connect to this
network may have their IP temporarily banned."


I am actually wondering if all the snoopers programs are "non-authorized" clients. I am not scared of it and couldn't care less if my IP would be temporarily banned (dynamic anyway), but I would like to know if we are all violating this rule by using snoopers. xD

[Prankster]

Or other IRC clients, if we are already there.

[Anubis]

I mean if T17 would care about this, and I am sure I have read this sentence back in like 2002, wouldn't they ban some people? Ppl are even exaggerating this as I have seen countless "Chelsea" clones probably from the same IP and snooper client, so I guess they would notice that but didn't take action. Which leads to my final question: Why is there a rule, that the host (T17), doesn't care about?

[darKz]

Maybe because T17 have abandoned this game 10 years ago? Just a wild guess.

[Anubis]

Last time I read how great Team17 still supports this game, somewhere on Reddit. ^^

[Muzer]

But they don't really, aside from the admirable job of keeping WormNET functional; for the most part they just let other people support it.

[Prankster]

But they don't really, aside from the admirable job of keeping WormNET functional; for the most part they just let other people support it.

That must be a conspiracy theory. I heard they published a w:a 3.0 version lately!

[StepS]

Lol. An "unauthorized client" is a client which is actually banned. One of examples is "WormKit2" - a ProSnooper hybrid which was leaked without author's permission, so it's banned, and joining WormNET with it will get you a ban for 60 seconds.
There are a bunch of others, of course, and I don't know all of them. Sometimes on WormNET you can see "Local kill by ChanServ - unauthorized client detected." This could be also due to DroneBL entry, but I'm unsure

[Bonhert]

@up: So we don't violate rules after all?
You killed all the fun, thanks  .

[KoreanRedDragon]

An "unauthorized client" is a client which is actually banned.

Nope.

[StepS]

An "unauthorized client" is a client which is actually banned.

Nope.

you know, I'm not on WormNET since 1999, so I'd like to hear your own explanation on "Local kill by ChanServ (Unauthorized client detected.)", which occurs pretty often nowadays.
your post doesn't prove or deny anything when it isn't informative

[rU`]

As far as I know, an unauthorized client kill is often caused due to the nickname being invalid.

For example, Administrator or Administrador (Spanish) are invalid names, those are the ones that are set by default when you first install the game.

I've seen "Administrator - local kill by ChanServ" many times. I guess it works like that so that it forces you to pick a nickname.

Other than that, I don't know what an Unauthorized Client stands for.

edit: similar names don't work either! Just tried to join Wormnet as Administratorr`` and ChanServ killed it. xD

[LeTotalKiller]

edit: similar names don't work either! Just tried to join Wormnet as Administratorr`` and ChanServ killed it. xD

It detects everything containing "admin", actually. (Same goes for "help", it seems.)

[Muzer]

As far as I know, an unauthorized client kill is often caused due to the nickname being invalid.

For example, Administrator or Administrador (Spanish) are invalid names, those are the ones that are set by default when you first install the game.

Only if you're stupid enough to use the administrator account on a day-to-day basis (the default nick is your username)

[StepS]

wrong! That gives "Invalid nickname".
Still no response from KRD