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NITKILL.EXE version 1.1 6/5/89
Michael W. Cocke
The Hacker Central BBS (201)334-2555 300/1200/2400 8N1
Imagine if you will, a user who persists in leaving the kind of
messages that guarantee legal problems. Messages relating to
software piracy. Obviously you can always lock him/her out of
the board. Now take the problem one step further.... into the
NIT zone.... Say you're a hub on an echo mail system... say
this user hasn't managed to get thrown out of all the other
systems on your echo mail network.... what do you do?
You get NITKILL (or in my case, WRITE nitkill)
NITKILL is designed for operation from your event or from the
batch file that your echo mail transfers run from. Just put
NITKILL after your mail transfer operation is finished and before
board reentry occurs. NITKILL will scan all of the message bases
that you tell it to and delete ALL messages that are to or from
up to fifty selected users.
NITKILL ignores all messages that aren't either to or from your
selected problems. NITKILL will kill a message so dead that
Sysop function #4 won't even bring it back. (I recommend that
you create a 'safe' copy of your message file before running
NITKILL - Ex: copy msgs msgs.saf) but NITKILL has been tested on
my own board and functions properly.
NITKILL operation:
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NITKILL requires two configuration files, both MUST be in the
current directory when you call NITKILL.
NITS is the name of the file containing your list of names.
These may be in upper, lower, or mixed case.
Firstname <space> Lastname
Firstname <space> Lastname
The names should be EXACTLY as they appear in the message header.
NO TRAILING BLANKS and NO BLANK LINES!
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MSGBASES is the list of message bases that you need to launder.
These MUST have the full drive:path\filename specified!
case is irrelevant. There may be as many of these as are needed.
d:\pcb\main\msgs
d:\pcb\c\msgs
etc.
I hope none of you ever have to put up with this kind of stupidi-
ty, but isn't it nice to know that you aren't alone, and that
there are tools to help you?
P.S. I thought seriously about leaving the name of my particular
nemesis hardcoded into this program, but decided against it.
That would be stooping to the level that this kid seems to be on.
Michael W. Cocke
6/5/89
P.S. NITKILL has been tested for use with PCBoard 14.x, If you
have a different version, DO NOT USE NITKILL as I have NO idea
what will happen.