Terry Olsen wrote:
* Crashing BBS's There were only a couple times where I had the impulse to crash a BBS.There was one time I had the impulse to crash a BBS and I did. It was called Mike & Matts Tavern, later called just The Tavern. It was a GBBS system. Mike had made it a refuge for Jon Fether, where he launched his flame wars. "FutureNet Sucks, TeamNet Rules, BoycoT Sucks, Xenon Knight (Knight with a moon) sucks", you get the picture.During all this, my account was deleted from The Tavern. I dialed in one day and couldn't log in. So I tried to log in using Fether's account (and his password that he used on my BBS). I got in and found that he had Sysop access.I went back to Merlin and whipped up an ACOS external that wrote zero's to every device starting in slot 7, drive 2 and working down from there. Tried it out with a few floppies and it worked nicely on my computer. I then logged back in to The Tavern and replaced the Blackspring Full-Screen editor external with this little gem and logged out. The BBS would keep running fine as long as nobody tried to use the Full-Screen editor.The next day, I tried to call The Tavern and it just rang & rang. I don't remember if he ever came back online after that, but some time after that Mike announced on another local BBS that he was quitting the BBS business.This was done in total blackout. I never told even my closest allies that I had done it.
As the FBI kicks in your door!!! --The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2006 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.