In my last reply, I forgot to mention some message networks (such as FidoNet) traditionally have required real names.
that was for accountability... mainly to protect the sysops because there wasn't (and still isn't) a "common carrier" classification for BBSes... if someone did something illegal via your board, you were liable for it...
Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: wkitty42 to Nightfox on Mon Jul 08 2019 12:32 pm
that was for accountability... mainly to protect the sysops because there wasn't (and still isn't) a "common carrier" classification for BBSes... if someone did something illegal via your board, you were liable for it...
Yeah - some guy pissed off another guy, and he spammed Usenet with an all-caps slanderous rant to hundreds of newsgroups. The post from the BBS showed up in google's search results, and the guy wrote a cease and desist letter to my ISP.
Sysop: | MCMLXXIX |
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Location: | Prospect, CT |
Users: | 325 |
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