SD>Some of the users are just really rude.  "Why won't you give me access to
SD>your fileareas?" one person asked.  I replied, "You tell me who you
SD>are and I'll do it."  He never called back and I could care less.
SD>Thankfully, very few people are like that anymore.

  I have a bulletin online...which is a combination of
several...entitled "You Want To Be A Sysop?". It has:

1) Definition Of A Twit (does not necessarily reflect the opinions of
this Sysop, but it comes close!). From Grant Bierman, one of the first
users on the BBS, who designed the ANSI lightning animation I use at
logon. His mother, Lois, suggested the name "Thunderbolt" when it first
went online in 1992. I liked it so much, that it "stuck".

2) So, You Want To Be A Sysop??. From the original Little Rock area
FIDONet coordinator, Tom Ezell.

3) The Thankless Job. From Kris Lewis...he used to frequent the FIDO
message areas, and even moderated some of them.

4) The care and feeding of Pet Sysops. From Fred Hunt, who used to run a
packet radio BBS in the area.

  Sadly, none of these either logon, or are even in the area anymore.

  While some of these are funny...sadly, a good part of them are true.
As in the days of dial-up, and now with telnet, some users have no idea
what it's like on this side of the connection. If you want, I can email
them to you, or post them here...they are quite lengthy, though. I have
made them for all ages in content (some of the original aliases in the
examples were a bit vulgar).

Daryl

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