Mail is not such an issue, the main part is tell spam, hence the title Tell & Mail
Each day in 16 - 18 hours of game play (a few breaks in this period naturally) I have received on average upto a 20 - 30 + odd tells as has the whole guild i am with.
This is not an uncommon occurance and can be verified with anyone who does play long hours.
With that being said, please don't shoot me as I am only relaying the following information ...
Currently people create macros to /tell platsellername message to basically annoy them ...
There is also a program now in beta release designed for eq2 & vg which I believe is against the eula which is a tell bomb messaging agent in which you enter the plat seller's name and it will firstly send them a message something along the lines of Since you spammed me, enjoy the return spam, /reports playname then it uses the /log with a tail -f style function to monitor the log file and continually spams them 2 tells per second until the time index stamp of the log file of tells to that player ceases to increase.
From what I read, next update has an auto function to scan the log for keywords, like thepowerlevel and gmworker etc which you can run while alseep or on a second computer to automatically bomb them /sigh
This is going to make one HUGE impact on the chat server sub-system which is already buggy as it is. I do not wish to see people using such programs to do such things, though can appreciate and understand where the annoyed person(s) who are writing and using this program come from.
Please SOE do something before this does become a problem for all of us.
I do not wish to play a game that takes 10 seconds to send 1 tell through because it is being overloaded by a couple of dozen of peeved off peeps taking action into their own hands to bomb back the plat sellers, even though I do respect their wishes to do so and know where they are coming from.
I myself have had enough of theire continued harassment to the point of wanting to leave the game as have MANY others have already done. So much for the aggressive stance of players running such businesses out of korea.
If SOE was serious, they would take some form of action ..
1) ban the Class C of anyone caught selling plat in tells in such a way IP xxx.xxx.xx#.ban the # range, anyone effected by such a ban should be qualified before being able to be effectively let through by the log in server.
2) Implement an intelligent spam (Specifically from gold sellers) sub routine within the chat server sub-system to capture and/or filter out such harassment.
Facts are the facts, it is not just an annoyance, it is straight out harassment.
~ Shadowsniper
PS. Program is being released under the GNU Prject as Freeware when released from what I can see of it.
