Re: Boycot BBS

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

So fake it, I don't care.  The whole purpose of the BBS is nostalgia.  This 
is how the BBS existed when it was running at it's peak in popularity.  I 
would have to do a lot of modifications to it to take that stuff out and I 
don't really have the time.

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message 
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> Byron Desnoyers writes ...
>>
>> Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com> wrote:
>> > I tried typing new in and it went to asking for password, go unknow 
>> > user
>> > and failure.
>>
>> You may have to type new in all caps.  I had some success with that,
>> but it started giving me the third degree (name, address, gender, age,
>> etc., etc.).  While that sort of thing was excusable in the BBS era, we
>> aren't in Kansas any more ...
>>
>> Byron.
>
>     Agree. Someone logs onto your BBS, you happily accept their name
> and, maybe, an email address. You don't give them the 3rd degree.
>
>     Lost count of number of sites I've clicked off that wanted all
> kinds of personal info. The net is a big place. Someone visits your
> site, you darn well better be nice to them.
>
>
> Rubywand