Re: Question
  By: Eric Oulashin to Lee Lofaso on Thu Apr 30 2020 18:55:00


 Ol>>>> Obviously "Daniel" cannot be real. He has not even a Real Name (TM)
 Ol>>>> or a node number.

 D>>> Are you pulling my leg?

 LL>> Only when I mistake it for a fire hydrant.

 EO> I think you're replying to the wrong person. I didn't write the message
 EO> you quoted, and I rarely read the FIDONEWS echo..

they were trying to draw you out to find out if you are a real person or not
because someone took offense(?) with something (political) that one of your
users (Daniel) wrote...

so it started with just his use of only his first name instead of his first and
last real name in his postings followed by a note that he wasn't listed as the
sysop of the BBS he was using...

that's another problem that many in here have glombed onto, too... they think
that every poster is the sysop of the board they post from... this because BBS
users are a rare commodity these days and most of the posters in here are
sysops... plus the huge fact that so many in non-US locations haven't had users
in like two decades which is/was generally blamed on the cost of local phone
calls so they pushed folks more and more to being point systems and thus
operators and we come full circle on the "all posters are operators" fallacy...

so anyway, just another fidonet-style spat that someone stirred up... kinda
like what we've seen in years past that many of us had thought was finally over
with :shrug:


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