Blocking residents vs objects

[Paul Hexem]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you block a resident, shouldn't all their objects, past and future, also get blocked?

I seem to have found a spammer making a new object every week that sends a message, despite the resident themselves being blocked.

[Henri Beauchamp]

If you get that message on login, it might be the result of a race condition between the queued offline messages retrieval and the mute list retrieval/initialization; the mute/block feature is entirely a viewer-side process (only the mute list is stored serve-side on log off, and sent to the viewer at its request, after login), and all viewers are not created equal in this matter...

[Paul Hexem]

5 hours ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

If you get that message on login, it might be the result of a race condition between the queued offline messages retrieval and the mute list retrieval/initialization; the mute/block feature is entirely a viewer-side process (only the mute list is stored serve-side on log off, and sent to the viewer at its request, after login), and all viewers are not created equal in this matter...

No, this is well after login. 

[Henri Beauchamp]

19 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:

No, this is well after login. 

Then this is abnormal (and likely a viewer bug)...

However, do make sure the spammer did not just register a new avatar under a slightly different name (which is a common occurrence among spammers/griefers accounts).

[Paul Hexem]

23 minutes ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

Then this is abnormal (and likely a viewer bug)...

However, do make sure the spammer did not just register a new avatar under a slightly different name (which is a common occurrence among spammers/griefers accounts).

It's a store spammer. It looks like they're creating a new object every week.

[Henri Beauchamp]

Fixed in this commit for Maint-U viewer. The bug was related to the new capability-based offline message retrieval (it did not affect the old method based on UDP messaging)...

[Paul Hexem]

On 6/21/2023 at 1:10 PM, Henri Beauchamp said:

Fixed in this commit for Maint-U viewer. The bug was related to the new capability-based offline message retrieval (it did not affect the old method based on UDP messaging)...

Oh. That's interesting. Weird that it'd be related to the offline retrieval.