I had the exact same experience hosting my own text adventure on a Telnet server! Endless bots trying to log into the "press 1 to start, press 2 to load" screen. My secret dream was that a bot would write some weird sequence of commands and accidentally play through my game, though we never got there. Telnet is the lingua franca of insecure IoT devices, so it's not surprising (though sad) that any FTP server will immediately become a juicy target for bots. Wrote a blog post about it here, of anyone's interested. https://benergize.com/2020/09/06/some-people-hate-it-oldscho...