Re: Re: Problematic
  By: Scott Adams to Sam Alexander on Thu Sep 07 2006 01:50 am

 >  -=> Quoting Sam Alexander to Sean Dennis <=-
 > 
 > 
 >  SA> What we used to do with the local boards was to block someone on all
 >  SA> systems if they were turds.  If someone logged into a board and acted
 >  SA> up,  their name or any information about that user went to all the
 >  SA> other boards  in the area via an areawide Sysop echo, and the user was
 >  SA> banned from  everyplace.  I'm sure other popular BBSes would comply if
 >  SA> you sent out a  similar message or at least threatened this on th e
 >  SA> user.
 > 
 >      Wow that bought back some memories.  In Jax we did that as well
 >      a sorta "bad user" list shared among the entire city of sysops.
 >      Worked quite well especially for door users who had like 18
 >      accounts in BRE on one board.

It did work well as I found out once.  When I was around 11 or 12 (new to 
BBSing) I stumbled upon the password for the adult area of a local board 
and under a friend's account (who was over 21) I would show-off the area to 
friends.  These pics were black  and white and the women not even nude, but 
to a 12 year old, it was gold!  I mistakenly accessed the area under my 
account once and freaked when the sysop went into chat asking where I'd 
gotten the password from.  Within 24 hours I was banned from more then half 
the boards until I wrote an apology letter, which I did.  

What's funny, now almost 20 years later, my wife works with the wife of 
that Sysop, and though I've talked to him many times about BBSes at events 
with my wife's work, I've never had the nerve to ask him about that 
incident.  He might remember me being 'that kid', but dunno.  Just too 
funny none the less.

Sam

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