Greetings, gentlemen,

On Sun 2038-Mar-14 09:48, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> Apparently 555-1212 is Directory Assistance in the US and Canada.

 MvLe> Ah I see. I suppose that should be rejected back in the day when
 MvLe> people actually took phone numbers seriously. These days nobody
 MvLe> cares :) 

 ac> I don't think anybody really cared much back then either :)

ml> uh, yeah... they did too... how were/are they supposed to be able to
ml> verify a caller without one? consider a caller who forgets their
ml> password...

Which I saw happen back in my busy system days.  IN fact,
had a disgruntled local sysop who we found out was using his users'
passwords to log onto other local boards in their
names.
Yes we had some folks used the same password on every local
board they called, despite warnings not to do this.

ml> it hasn't been all that long ago, guys... POTS is still alive and
ml> well and active ;)

INdeed it is, and although I didn't ever run a cbv I did
voice verify my callers, still do, when necessary.

IN the case of disgruntled former teenage sysop I mentioned
earlier, one of the things that caught him out was that he
was hand entering log on information for one guy, where it
used to happen quite regularly when he'd log on, as he used
a log on script, iirc from Telix.

Regards,
           Richard
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