It seemed best to post it here.

Pest Exterminators, or PE, is a team that eliminates pests from the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 listservers. You can be in a clan too, as we're not a clan, but a team!

NEWS:

Wednesday, 12th April 2006
No-one applied for leadership so I remain leader. We're still alive and taking members. A heads-up to HTML experts as we need a webbie and I have no HTML experience.

Things we hope to add soon:
* Member Campaign
* A Site. This'll hopefully be done when we have around 7+ members.
* Report Now! Campaign

NOTICES:
URGENTLY REQUESTING NEW MEMBERS!
PE is in urgent need of members. Anyone can join.

MSN CONTACT NEEDED
Members, we need contact! Add pinkfurby@hotmail.com to your MSN list ASAP please. MSN is necessary for meetings, reports and the sort.

HTML HELP NEEDED
We (OK, I) need help with a webbie as I have no HTML knowledge. Apply here.

PROMOTION OF PROGRAMS:
Coming Soon.

MEMBERS
Current Pest Exterminators are:
ShadowRabbitRR
Black Ninja (contact needed)

Report offences via PM to myself. Report serious offences to Monolith and/or Nimrod.

NIFTY REMINDERS:
Don't forget to wear the PE tag online members!

Have a nice day!
~Shadow

And remember, these are our listservers. If we want to protect them we can't just sit here! Join and/or help Pest Exterminators today to make them enjoyable for everyone!

*signs up*

Remember to wear the PE tag, I forgot.

But welcome to Pest Eliminators UNKNOWNFILE!
*pins PE badge to UNKNOWNFILE's chest*

I like this stuff. Good entertainment

Good luck with your team.

It's XD, not RAD.

And what about those of us incapable of using UF's JJ2 patches? That's not very nice.

Like? You just have to get SNESTool to install them.
And XD's dead. It's RAD, AJazz doesn't go by AJazz XD. It's AJazz RAD.

You should of been at the takeover last night.

I've put together a mircscript which I call "NetMon" which currently connects to a specified server and logs TCP data for 30 seconds then quits. Here's the code. Packets not included.

/*
NetMon source code
(C)2006 Peter S. Conway
*/
alias spy {
  if ($1 == $null) { /echo -t Specify the server you idiot. | halt }
  /echo -t Opening spy to $1 $+ ...
  /set %ip $1
  /sockopen spy $1 10052
  /write Log_ $+ %ip $+ .txt Log initiated at $date $time EDT by UNKNOWNFILE
}

on 1:SOCKOPEN:spy: {
  bread joinpack.bin 0 9 &info
  sockwrite spy &info
  bread netmon_sendname.bin 0 16 &info
  sockwrite spy &info
  bread somepack.bin 0 16 &info
  sockwrite spy &info
  bread sayhi.bin 0 93 &info
}

on 1:SOCKREAD:spy: {
  sockread &summat
  /bwrite Log_ $+ %ip $+ .txt -1 -1 &summat
 /echo -t Data recieved from server.
}

on 1:SOCKCLOSE:spy: {
  /echo -t Connection dropped from server. Be sure to save the logs!
}

So, any suggestions?

@Shadowthing: Like those of us not using an x86 archetecture. Duh.
And considering that I saw ThaSpaz and Adeel/Orbitz going around today with XD on their names, I could only guess that XD was the name they went by. AJazz is... weird, anyway, so I don't think he's the best example.

TCP data? Like the packets that come through?

I am really having trouble with the NetMon. It needs to warn the server not to kick the slot its in, as it spawns a "ghost" to player 32 as of this writing. Hopefully I can fix that soon.

Umm, this list servers aren't in any danger. It's just individual game servers that you're looking out for. Two different things.

I dunno, RAD was crashing everything and making only one server: RAD Takeover.

lol @ this
Nice script, UF. Try using a normal joining packet ;o Then it shouldn't get into slot 32. Or better yet, take the packet used in jforce, so you don't have to see the player joined message.

'Takeover'? JJ2 is not a country. You cannot invade it. And if you can, putting 'PE' after your name isn't going to help anything. It just makes troublemakers feel special, which is exactly what you do not want. You're just helping them.

Just help assemble information on how to protect JJ2. Fuss doesn't help.

Is this a joke? =3

Originally Posted by ShadowRabbit

And remember, these are our listservers. If we want to protect them we can't just sit here! Join and/or help Pest Exterminators today to make them enjoyable for everyone!

Correction, one of them is mine, and one of them is Monoliths.

Secondly, if this isnt a joke I find it quite concerning.

Originally Posted by Nimrod

Correction, one of them is mine, and one of them is Monoliths.

There are other interpretations of 'our' than meaning 'our direct property'. It's "our" listservers in that the listservers run (should run) for the community's sake, their admins answer to the community, and they are used by the community's grace. Shadowrabbit wasn't claiming he held the property rights to your computers.

I'd happily sign up.

This is a nice idea! But I've got no time for joining it, sorry. But good luck with cleaning up the listservers!

Can I join???

So what methods will you use to eliminate the pests?

Can I become a vigilante vigilante and work outside PE's influence? ;o

You could become a Mercenary.

Black Ninja, you're in! Same to you Stijin!
@Nimrod: Everyone usesthem, so everyone should contribute.
@Monolith: Basically same as Nimrod, I guess ;p
@FQuist: Stop confusing me please. And it won't make troublemakers feel special. And this is not a joke. THIS IS REAL!

Are you dyslectic? My name clearly reads "Stijn", not "Stijin".

Stijn will get secret information for ZL.

I'm just curious, but how exactly do you plan on doing anything? You're not telling us anything except "WE MUST STOP THEM!!11!!!," and expecting them to vanish. You've got nothing to protect your own servers, or to provent people from doing anything.

It's like walking into the middle of a gunfight and expecting to come out unscathed.

What if I don't want to use UF's patches because before this topic I never needed them?

I doubted anyone needed them because nobody here besides me plays the stupid game online.

The lucky people who randomly message me do have a semi-final version of it, featuring more fixes and expanded memory to support large levels and music.

I never needed them because Nimrod already posted something that more or less protects me from lasers. Other fixes weren't really all too important (Why would you freeze a gemring in the first place?).

Originally Posted by Sonyk

I'm just curious, but how exactly do you plan on doing anything? You're not telling us anything except "WE MUST STOP THEM!!11!!!," and expecting them to vanish. You've got nothing to protect your own servers, or to provent people from doing anything.

It's like walking into the middle of a gunfight and expecting to come out unscathed.

Originally Posted by ShadowRabbit

We urge all Jazzers to use UNKNOWNFILE's 1.25 patches...

*cough cough*

There's no point to use UF's patch... you could just use Nimrod's filter (which has protections against ASD and stuff as well) or Project Cataclysm...

Is the only method of your group telling everyone about UF's 1.25 patches? Are there any other measures you intend to use?

Project Controller 4 to mute flooders... reporting serious offences... need I say more?

Reporting serious offences does next to nothing. Most people who are attacked don't run ApprehendJJ2, and even if they do, the IP of the attacker is usually dynamic.

And reporting their name is useless, since anybody can change their name at any given moment.

The IP of the attacker is more useful than anything.

This is a nice idea, but I fail to see how it merits a clan name. I mean, it's nice to have people spread the word about offenses, and stuff, but having a whole clan based off of it is a bit wasteful. I'd join if I wasn't on a clamn diet.

Originally Posted by Monolith

The IP of the attacker is more useful than anything.

Especially in reports, which is why we encourage use of ApprehendJJ2. For hosts, you can just press F9 twice and get the I.P's of the current players on the left side of their names.

"U N K N O W N   N E T W O R K   A D R E S S"

Originally Posted by Grytolle

"U N K N O W N   N E T W O R K   A D R E S S"

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