[sldev] Funny what you find when you look

[Maya Remblai]

Wrong mailing list. Though I imagine most of the Emerald devs are on 
this list, it's better to contact them directly if you have a problem 
with something.

That said, I haven't had any trouble with Emerald, and a good portion of 
the people I see wandering around are also on Emerald. No one seems to 
have any trouble with this "spam", most users prefer Emerald for its 
greater speeds, in fact. As for a ToS violation, I don't think so, 
though I also don't see a need for that many messages being sent.

Honestly, LL's viewers have done things I consider to be far worse, and 
more destructive of my in-world experience. ;)

Maya

mal wrote:
>
> thought it would be intresting to see what all happens on the typing 
> stop part of ims... and when i did i found that the Emerald Client by 
> modularsystems.sl is flooding typing stop with messages this was 
> causing me alot of lag and now i know why. each user of the emerald 
> client is sending between 4-10 messages each time someone pops into 
> the sim or when the user teleports. now do the math and how many 
> messages per second is that if you have a full region of emerald users?
>
> this is uncalled for and i for one feel this to be a violation of the 
> terms of service honestly.... spam is spam no matter where or how it 
> is sent.
>
> anyone have a way to completely avoid typing stop message?
>
>  
>
> case IM_TYPING_STOP:
> {
> LLPointer<LLIMInfo> im_info = new LLIMInfo(gMessageSystem);
> std::string revised_text = im_info->mMessage;//collect the message
> LLUUID fromkey = im_info->mFromID;//grab the UUID of the person 
> sending this message
> std::string name = im_info->mName;//grab the name of the person 
> sending this message
> if(revised_text != "typing")//if the message is not typing cause if it 
> is it will spam people
> {
> string::size_type loc = revised_text.find( "typing", 0 );//make sure 
> just in case it does not even contain typing
> if( loc == string::npos )
>
> { send_improved_im(fromkey, "joeanyname here", "You have been detected 
> using TYPING_STOP hidden commands. Most popularly used by Emerald 
> Viewer to spam everyone in the sim. your name and uuid have been 
> logged for an abuse report.", IM_ONLINE, IM_NOTHING_SPECIAL, 
> LLUUID::null, NO_TIMESTAMP, (U8*)EMPTY_BINARY_BUCKET, 
> EMPTY_BINARY_BUCKET_SIZE); send_improved_im(gAgent.getID(), "Philip 
> Linden", "typing stop message from user with key: 
> "+fromkey.asString()+" name: "+name+" has been detected. 
> message("+revised_text+")", IM_ONLINE, IM_NOTHING_SPECIAL, 
> LLUUID::null, NO_TIMESTAMP, (U8*)EMPTY_BINARY_BUCKET, 
> EMPTY_BINARY_BUCKET_SIZE); }
>
> }
> gIMMgr->processIMTypingStop(im_info);
> }
> break;
>
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