[sldev] [VIEWER] Re: New viewer released with logging of the owners of speaking objects and their location

[Kamilion]

On 9/4/07, Brandon Husbands <xotmid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why would you want logging, the slurl thing already sucks... Now people
> will know where your updaters are and grief them... What's next,
> attachments reporting?
>
> I am curious why you would want to have it show the IM data.
> That kind of sucks, and its spamtastic.

(Quote edited for clarity)


Perhaps you should have read Dale's blog.
http://daleglass.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/silencing-the-voice-of-god/

>From the Blog:

Silencing the Voice of God

Yesterday I had a lot of fun tracking down a spammer.

Sesh Kamachi IMed the Linux group asking how to find a location of an
object that keep spamming messages. I gave him a tool I made for the
purpose, which shows the last speaker's name, owner (if it's an
object) and location. Sesh reported that this didn't work, so I came
there to check it out myself.

My theory was that perhaps this was some object he owned that used
llOwnerSay. Just in case, I decided to hang around for a while.
Finally I got the message:

    [2007/08/08 17:51] VoG: Very early in the morning, the chief
priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole
Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and
handed him over to Pilate."Are you the king of the Jews?" asked
Pilate."Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. The chief priests
accused him of many things. So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you
going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of." But
Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed. Now it was the
custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested. A
man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had
committed murder in the uprising. The crowd came up and asked Pilate
to do for them what he usually did. "Do you want me to release to you
the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate,knowing it was out of envy that
the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. But the chief priests
stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead. "What
shall I do, then, with the one you call the

Turns out, this thing sends IMs to a list of avatars (I'm so lucky
that they added me to it!), so objects listening for chat can't hear
it. There's no good way of tracking this down with the standard tools
or any scripts residents have available (though Lindens can).
Fortunately, Linden Labs released the source to the viewer, and that
makes it possible to do some really useful changes to the viewer.


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Now I don't know about you, but as a non-religious person, it would
drive me up the wall to be spammed with drivel like that.

Now we can track it down.