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Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by autoexec »

jchw wrote: post #3

I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human: > 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved: > Looks like you are not a human Good to know.

I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by bmacho »

autoexec wrote: post #21
jchw wrote: post #3

I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human: > 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved: > Looks like you are not a human Good to know.

I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.

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Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by onion2k »

seb1204 wrote: post #7

Why not just turn it off and say we need money to turn it in again?

That might work, but the second order effect would probably be companies trying to do the work of time synchronisation themselves in case it happened again. That would lead to fragmentation and incompatibility.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by mjhay »

bmacho wrote: post #22
autoexec wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.

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Is there a problem with fraudsters donating to OSS projects?

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by dietr1ch »

bmacho wrote: post #22
autoexec wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.

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Well fraudsters need to have their time in sync for their business right? Who are you to deny their donations?

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by op7 »

autoexec wrote: post #21
jchw wrote: post #3

I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human: > 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved: > Looks like you are not a human Good to know.

I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.

Then when too many of the fradulent payments get charged back then your payment processor drops you
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