So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was 1978. The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get yours..

Heliarc

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Heliarc wrote to All <=-

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me
is was 1978. The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the
radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked
around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again
what's you hanfdle honey I told her handle was HusTler ans the
name stuck. Ho did you get yours..

Heliarc

Steven

I don't use an alias, but I'm a little confused by your post...

Is it Hustler, Heliarc, or Steven?



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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Heliarc to All on Wed Apr 17 2019 11:02 pm

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was 1978. The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get yours..

Heliarc

You say you use HusTler (and I've seen you post with that), but you're posting this message with the handle "Heliarc".. ;)

In 1994 I was thinking of a handle to use when I was starting my own BBS. I never thought I was really good at coming up with handles, but I started thinking of ways to combine a couple words and thought of "Nightfox". I thought it sounded okay and started using it.

Nightfox

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Heliarc wrote to All <=-

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"??

I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the
lesson after class.



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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Heliarc to All on Wed Apr 17 2019 11:02 pm

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"??

Back in 1995 or 1996, my family had the Internet for a while and I was floored with Yahoo!. Then my dad created a Yahoo! E-Mail account for me and just stuck with usng my name, using "jagossel". I hadn't been very good with names, so it just stuck with me all this time.

When I started to get back into the BBS scene in 2016, I still used "jagossel"; however, I was comfortable with my full name being out in the open in some Telnet packets, and I liked the name of a stsff member who help make one of my kids' TV Show, J. Chris Wall, that I decided to us the same format myself for real names on BBSes: J. Adam Gosselin.

So, that's it in its boring nut shell. Feel free to come back and re-read this message when you are struggling to get some sleep. <grin> Goes great with a business news anchor's voice.

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Nightfox to Heliarc on Fri Apr 19 2019 09:55 am

You say you use HusTler (and I've seen you post with that), but you're posting this message with the handle "Heliarc".. ;)

I remember a t-file stating with some importance, and with great CAPS, that when logging onto an elite board for the first time that you didn't know the sysop, you should NEVER USE YOUR REAL HANDLE.

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Apr 19 2019 11:27 am

True story.......back in the day at times it was quite the cat and mouse game at least for scene I was involved with back in the day..

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So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was 1978.

On this board, I came up with it from the Kentucky Headhunter's song by the same name.

On my MagickaBBS, Possum Lodge South, I came up with Blue White as a play
on the name Red Green. Unless you've seen the Red Green Show, you probably won't get it. :)

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I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the
lesson after class.

I had to do something similar in a BASIC class in college... I was really pissed when I got my grade, too. :(

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Fri Apr 19 2019 08:39 pm

I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the
lesson after class.

I had to do something similar in a BASIC class in college... I was really pissed when I got my grade, too. :(

To tell you the truth. I only knew most users by their handle back in the day. That was to "protect" us from the law. The only time we traded real names was when we met face to face. I know some BBS SyOps require "real names". I'm still conflicted about that. Even though I'm no longer involved in "Illegal" activites I still think it's inappropriate for someone I don't know to ask me for my "real" info. If anyone can remember the old CB days (Citizens Band) radio, everyone used a "handle". I don't see any diffrence with the internet. It's just another network where you need to keep your guard up. That's just my opion....I could be wrong??
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Dumas Walker to HELIARC on Fri Apr 19 2019 08:38 pm

on the name Red Green. Unless you've seen the Red Green Show, you probably won't get it. :)

oh yeah, i loved that show.
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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 20 2019 11:50 am

Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Fri Apr 19 2019 08:39 pm

I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the
lesson after class.

I had to do something similar in a BASIC class in college... I was really pissed when I got my grade, too. :(

To tell you the truth. I only knew most users by their handle back in the day. That was to "protect" us from the law. The only time we traded real

was it really about hiding or that being on a bbs was a different type of environment and we just chose names. back then there wasnt such a push to use your real info [really so online services of today can have credible information of you to sell]
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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 20 2019 11:50 am

To tell you the truth. I only knew most users by their handle back in the day. That was to "protect" us from the law. The only time we traded real names was when we met face to face. I know some BBS SyOps require "real names". I'm still conflicted about that. Even though I'm no longer involved in "Illegal" activites I still think it's inappropriate for someone I don't know to ask me for my "real" info. If anyone can remember the old CB days (Citizens Band) radio, everyone used a "handle". I don't see any diffrence with the internet. It's just another network where you need to keep your guard up. That's just my opion....I could be wrong??

On one hand, I totally agree, it's normal and accepted to use a handle. On the other hand, I don't really see why I should be afraid to use my real name, unless I had something to hide. If I needed protection from the law, as you've said, then perhaps I really did something wrong, and I don't really think it's good to run from the law. As the old song said, "I fought the law, and the law won". (Side note: When I was a kid, I once thought the song said "I fought my dog, and my dog won".) And when you do things like apply for a loan, etc., then yes, there will be people you don't know asking you for your real info. That's normal too.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 20 2019 11:50 am

To tell you the truth. I only knew most users by their handle back in the day. That was to "protect" us from the law. The only time we traded real names was when we met face to face. I know some BBS SyOps require "real names". I'm still conflicted about that. Even though I'm no longer involved in "Illegal" activites I still think it's inappropriate for someone I don't know to ask me for my "real" info. If anyone can remember the old CB days (Citizens Band) radio, everyone used a "handle". I don't see any diffrence with the internet. It's just another network where you need to keep your guard up. That's just my opion....I could be wrong??

In my last reply, I forgot to mention some message networks (such as FidoNet) traditionally have required real names.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to Hustler on Sat Apr 20 2019 09:50 pm

In my last reply, I forgot to mention some message networks (such as FidoNet) traditionally have required real names.

sort of. a 'real sounding name' is the way they normally do things.
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HELIARC wrote to ALL <=-

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@MSGID: <5CB7E8AF.760.dove-general@havens.synchronetbbs.org>
So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is
was 1978. The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey
I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get
yours..

Heliarc

First - if it's HusTler, why did you sign it Heliarc? LOL

Second - back when I was on the CB, I was Jim Dandy. I don't
know why - maybe because I was a kid and one of my older
brothers used to listen to Black Oak Arkansas and I had
heard the song. :-)

Several years later BBS's came along. I was a HUGE Quantum
Leap fan, so I came up with LEAPER. A few people 'got it'
right away but most had no clue, and most of them didn't
care - LOL

Fast forward a few years and our internet provider was a
local place we would dial in to, but most of our stuff
was BBS based. I was at work and my wife was setting up
AOL at home. When I came home she told me my login was
jimmylogan (first name and middle name) so that kind of
stuck. Now when I create an account ANYWHERE that's the
first thing I try to use, so if you run across that name
somewhere it's probably me. :-)

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)





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NIGHTFOX wrote to HELIARC <=-

In 1994 I was thinking of a handle to use when I was starting my own
BBS. I never thought I was really good at coming up with handles, but
I started thinking of ways to combine a couple words and thought of "Nightfox". I thought it sounded okay and started using it.

That's it? Not a nickname before hand or a 'night owl, but crazy
like a fox' ? :-)




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POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote to HELIARC <=-

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"??

I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the lesson after class.

Now that's cool! I saw your name before and thought it had something
to do with the programming language... :-)




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JAGOSSEL wrote to HELIARC <=-

So, that's it in its boring nut shell. Feel free to come back and
re-read this message when you are struggling to get some sleep. <grin> Goes great with a business news anchor's voice.

Film at 11!




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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: MRO to Hustler on Sat Apr 20 2019 05:10 pm

To tell you the truth. I only knew most users by their handle back in

was it really about hiding or that being on a bbs was a different type of environment and we just chose names. back then there wasnt such a push to use your real info [really so online services of today can have credible information of you to sell]
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Oh yea. It was about "hiding". My board was a "software distrobution" board. I was a "hub" for a "group" located in germany. They did not pay for the calls to the board to upload the software so yes, we were "hiding". Back then my board rang off the hook. People wanted what the BBS offered. Other then nostalgia I'm hard pressed to give a "reason" to call a BBS. There's nothing on my board that can't be found on hundreds of other boards. But we all still use a "handle". So how did you come up with yours? Why not use your "real name"?

Heliarc

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Steven

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Heliarc to MRO on Sun Apr 21 2019 10:09 am

nothing on my board that can't be found on hundreds of other boards. But we all still use a "handle". So how did you come up with yours? Why not use your "real name"?

my real name's last name is too long. and it's hard to type for other people. i even use an alias sometimes in real life as long as i'm not doing financial business.

sort of like the arab 'steve' at the gas station
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was it really about hiding or that being on a bbs was a different type of >environment and we just chose names. back then there wasnt such a push to use >your real info [really so online services of today can have credible >information of you to sell]

Maybe it was the part of the country I was in but, back in the late '80's
when I first started BBSing, the only boards in my area that were handle
boards were mostly running on Commodore or were running WWIV. Just about all the other boards were real name boards, so I got used to that.

I moved out of that area into an area that did not have a local BBS scene
to speak of. All BBSes were long distance from me. I did not really
notice the shift to mostly handle BBSes until I started using telnet to
connect to other boards.

Mike

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Dan Clough to Heliarc on Fri Apr 19 2019 07:36 am

I don't use an alias, but I'm a little confused by your post...

Is it Hustler, Heliarc, or Steven?

Depends on what BBS I'm writing from. I don't restrict myself to a single board or single net for that matter. That said I'm HusTler, Heliarc and Steve.

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Jagossel to Heliarc on Fri Apr 19 2019 02:06 pm

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"??

Back in 1995 or 1996, my family had the Internet for a while and I was floored with Yahoo!. Then my dad created a Yahoo! E-Mail account for me and just stuck with usng my name, using "jagossel". I hadn't been very good with names, so it just stuck with me all this time.
So, that's it in its boring nut shell. Feel free to come back and re-read

Sounds interesting to me. I'd like to make a little book with BBS handles
and their "Story". I think the handles BBSers use are cool and have a story to tell. That's just my opinion.. I could be wrong. ;-)

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: MRO to Heliarc on Sun Apr 21 2019 10:13:00

Back in the 90's I used the handle "qtfemme" but I'm too old to be "cute" anymore ;)

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Quoting MRO to Nightfox <=-

sort of. a 'real sounding name' is the way they normally do things.

That's all I ask for is a "Real Name" I could care less what your name
is I just don't like getting netmail from fightonet idiots because
then I have to go on a giant rant calling them names until they ban
me.

Shawn


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Quoting MRO to Heliarc <=-

sort of like the arab 'steve' at the gas station

Friend of mine at the local convience store. His name tag says his
real name which no english speaking only person can get the accent
right. He goes by "Moe" but told me to call him "Name" which is as
close to his correct name as a stupid white boy like me can say. LOL

Shawn

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Tiny to MRO on Sun Apr 21 2019 08:23 pm

Quoting MRO to Nightfox <=-

sort of. a 'real sounding name' is the way they normally do things.

That's all I ask for is a "Real Name" I could care less what your name
is I just don't like getting netmail from fightonet idiots because
then I have to go on a giant rant calling them names until they ban
me.

i dont care what their real name is and i want a real email address so they can get their passwords when they forget them.

i'm curious about locations, that's about it.

is your bbs public now?
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Heliarc to All on Wed Apr 17 2019 11:02 pm

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was 197 The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get yours..

My handle was my nickname from about 1986. My friends started calling me "Diamond Dave" in honor of David Lee Roth of Van Halen fame.

The name stuck and I used it when I started BBSing in 1991. Still my BBS handle to this day.

In fact, I named my BBS in honor of it.

*** Diamond Dave ***
Sysop - Diamond Mine Online BBS
bbs.dmine.net:24

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05 am

First - if it's HusTler, why did you sign it Heliarc? LOL

Because I enjoy being difficult? lol I use a lot of BBSes. Sometimes my acount gets deleted or I forget my pw so I create another acount with a differnet alias. There's really no method to my madness.

Second - back when I was on the CB, I was Jim Dandy. I don't
know why - maybe because I was a kid and one of my older
was BBS based. I was at work and my wife was setting up
AOL at home. When I came home she told me my login was
jimmylogan (first name and middle name) so that kind of

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and

That's a great story. You use an alias at a resteraunt? I never thought of that. Although I'd probably miss them calling my name and lose the table.

Heliarc

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Quoting MRO to Tiny <=-

is your bbs public now?

Always has been? Just had some internet issues for a while that
caused it to not always answer.

Shawn

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HusTler wrote to Dan Clough <=-

I don't use an alias, but I'm a little confused by your post...
Is it Hustler, Heliarc, or Steven?

Depends on what BBS I'm writing from. I don't restrict myself to
a single board or single net for that matter. That said I'm
HusTler, Heliarc and Steve.

I see. Well OK then.



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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Heliarc to All on Wed Apr 17 2019 11:02 pm

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was

I went through 3 "handles" in my life, and like you, my first came from the CB Radio. In my case it was the late 80s, and I ran a pirate radio station and was heavily into rap music, so my handle was "The Fresh Prince". I used the "real name" of "Will Smith" when doing pirate radio things.

The 90s rolled around and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" became a thing, CB Radio started to die off, and I discovered BBSes. for a very breif time I went by the chick-magnet handle of "G-Dogg", as "The Fresh Prince" was just too many letters for most chat clients. Around the time I set my first BBS up (named "The Dogg Pound") my musical tastes changed quite vastly. I started taking martial arts with a friend, and during a conversation about how much I hated my handle, and how I wanted to change it but couldn't come up with anything unique, he suggested "Tengu". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu)

It stuck for a couple years. The BBS became "The Demon's Lair", and I spent quite a lot of time on IRC (EFNet specifically).

Some jerk must have decided he liked my name on EFNet, as he stole it. He also had a more permanent connection, so I Would always wind up being "TeNGu_" instead of "TeNGu".

So I decided to re-name one final time, and became "DaiTengu" (roughly translated to "Big Tengu" or "Major Tengu". More information about it is in the Wikipedia article I linked (just skim for it) That was probably in late '95 or so. I've stuck with it ever since.

DaiTengu

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: HusTler to Dan Clough on Sun Apr 21 2019 12:32 pm

Is it Hustler, Heliarc, or Steven?

Depends on what BBS I'm writing from. I don't restrict myself to a single board or single net for that matter. That said I'm HusTler, Heliarc and Steve.

That might make things confusing.

Nightfox

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: HusTler to Jagossel on Sun Apr 21 2019 12:41 pm

Sounds interesting to me. I'd like to make a little book with BBS handles and their "Story". I think the handles BBSers use are cool and have a story to tell. That's just my opinion.. I could be wrong. ;-)

I think the story behind my handle is boring, IMO. :P

Nightfox

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Tiny to MRO on Sun Apr 21 2019 08:23 pm

That's all I ask for is a "Real Name" I could care less what your name
is I just don't like getting netmail from fightonet idiots because
then I have to go on a giant rant calling them names until they ban
me.

Shawn

I'm not sure if it's your editor or if it's intentional, but all your message lines are indented a few spaces.

Nightfox

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Heliarc to JIMMY ANDERSON on Sun Apr 21 2019 08:51 pm

Because I enjoy being difficult? lol I use a lot of BBSes. Sometimes my acount gets deleted or I forget my pw so I create another acount with a differnet alias. There's really no method to my madness.

I think there's usually a way to reset your password if you forget it. (Side note: Keep track of your passwords so you don't forget them)

Nightfox

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Tiny to MRO on Mon Apr 22 2019 12:51 pm

Quoting MRO to Tiny <=-

is your bbs public now?

Always has been? Just had some internet issues for a while that
caused it to not always answer.

Shawn

it's not picking up now unless you changed the port.
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Nightfox to HusTler on Mon Apr 22 2019 09:19 am

Is it Hustler, Heliarc, or Steven?

Depends on what BBS I'm writing from. I don't restrict myself to a

That might make things confusing.

Yea it does. Somedays I have no idea who I am! ;-)

Hustler
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MARISAG wrote to ALL <=-

Back in the 90's I used the handle "qtfemme" but I'm too old to be
"cute" anymore ;)

Marisa

Nice. :-) And you're only as old as you feel. Some days I'm VERY
old! LOL



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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05 am

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

The Angels pitcher?

digital man

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On 04-21-19 10:13, MRO wrote to Heliarc <=-

my real name's last name is too long. and it's hard to type for other people. i even use an alias sometimes in real life as long as i'm not doing financial business.

We Aussies have an easy solution for that, we're really good at shortening lengthy names into nicknames. :)


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On 04-21-19 11:09, Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-

Maybe it was the part of the country I was in but, back in the late
'80's when I first started BBSing, the only boards in my area that were handle boards were mostly running on Commodore or were running WWIV.
Just about all the other boards were real name boards, so I got used to that.

Most of the boards I was on used software such as RA, Maximus, etc, which accepted both a real name and a handle (like Mystic and Synchronet today), and the appropriate one was used, according to echo configuration. We wanted at least a "real sounding" name. This was mainly because we carried Fidonet and wanted users to pass muster there. But then we were also a mainstream messaging BBS and not doing any warez.


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On 04-22-19 09:20, Nightfox wrote to HusTler <=-

I think the story behind my handle is boring, IMO. :P

My current one? Just ask the ACMA (or qrz.com). :D


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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Vk3jed to MRO on Tue Apr 23 2019 07:40 pm

my real name's last name is too long. and it's hard to type for
other people. i even use an alias sometimes in real life as long as
i'm not doing financial business.

We Aussies have an easy solution for that, we're really good at shortening lengthy names into nicknames. :)

I just saw a video recently with Conan O'Brien on an Australian talk show, and the host was teaching him some Australian slang, and they talked about that. :) And is it true that AC/DC is nicknamed "acadaca" in Australia?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Vk3jed to Dumas Walker on Tue Apr 23 2019 07:49 pm

wanted at least a "real sounding" name. This was mainly because we carried Fidonet and wanted users to pass muster there. But then we were also a mainstream messaging BBS and not doing any warez.

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but later I realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for warez BBSes to crack down on.

Nightfox

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Digital Man to JIMMY ANDERSON on Tue Apr 23 2019 01:04 am

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05 am

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

The Angels pitcher?

the reference is from the tv show burn notice. Bruce Campbell's character was a spy and he came up with that alias on the fly when a sports magazine was the first thing he saw when looking around in haste.
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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Tue Apr 23 2019 09:06 am

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but later I realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for warez BBSes to crack down on.

i think they were just asking incase you had hidden areas.
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HELIARC wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and

That's a great story. You use an alias at a resteraunt? I never
thought of that. Although I'd probably miss them calling my name and
lose the table.

Start out at Taco Bell or places like that until you get used to
hearing it. :-)

Any idea where the name Chuck Finley came from? :-D




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NIGHTFOX wrote to HUSTLER <=-

Sounds interesting to me. I'd like to make a little book with BBS handles and their "Story". I think the handles BBSers use are cool and have a story to tell. That's just my opinion.. I could be wrong. ;-)

Well I have one more... When we lived in Memphis there was an 'adults
only' BBS. It wasn't porn, but was subjects that today would not be
on regular television channels, but still easy to see on Netflix, etc.

Anyway, I was very active in BBS's all over, and didn't want the two
'personas' to cross, so I came up with a new name... Now that I'm
typing this I'm not so sure I want to share it after all. LOL

I think the story behind my handle is boring, IMO. :P

Let us be the judge? :-)




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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Tue Apr 23 2019 09:06 am

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but later I realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for warez BBSes to crack down on.

Could have been. There were no "torrents" back then so the feds went after
the SyOps of the BBS users were downloading from. I shut my board down
because the software just got too darn big to DL over a phone line. Before the software went to CD's they were sold on 3 1/2 floppies. The "good stuff" would take 14 disks. Then it went to 21 disks some 30. It was nuts. Downloads would take 8-10 hours. CD's took a day.
This was before cable came to my neighborhood. If they tracked you down they would confiscate your computer and whatever software/hardware you had. If you were 18 or over they might press charges. If it was your first offense, they would take your "stuff" and just give you a warning. So...Yea.. they might have been "watching you". ;-)


Hustler
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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Apr 23 2019 03:15 pm

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some
callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get
access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I

i think they were just asking incase you had hidden areas.

I thought it was odd because they said they had heard it was a warez BBS, but I never ran a warez BBS or advertised it as such.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Nightfox on Tue Apr 23 2019 05:54 pm

access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I
didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but
later I realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for
warez BBSes to crack down on.

Could have been. There were no "torrents" back then so the feds went after the SyOps of the BBS users were downloading from. I shut my board down because the software just got too darn big to DL over a phone line. Before the software went to CD's they were sold on 3 1/2 floppies. The "good stuff" would take 14 disks. Then it went to 21 disks some 30. It was nuts. Downloads would take 8-10 hours. CD's took a day.

I never had anything quite that big for download on my BBS. Shareware & freeware stuff back then was usually only up to a few disks max, or maybe split up into a few ~200KB zip files max.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Nightfox on Tue Apr 23 2019 05:54 pm

Could have been. There were no "torrents" back then so the feds went after the SyOps of the BBS users were downloading from. I shut my board down because the software just got too darn big to DL over a phone line. Before the software went to CD's they were sold on 3 1/2 floppies. The "good stuff" would take 14 disks. Then it went to 21 disks some 30. It was nuts. Downloads would take 8-10 hours. CD's took a day.

that's messed up what they did to rustie and eddie.
raided those old folks.
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Apr 23 2019 10:59 am

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Digital Man to JIMMY ANDERSON on Tue Apr 23 2019 01:04 am

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05 am

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

The Angels pitcher?

the reference is from the tv show burn notice. Bruce Campbell's character was a spy and he came up with that alias on the fly when a sports magazine was the first thing he saw when looking around in haste.

Ah. "Fin" must've been on the cover of that sports magazine. He was a great Angels pitcher and was once married to that nutball, Tawny Kitaen. Used to see her games often.

digital man

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On 04-23-19 09:04, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I just saw a video recently with Conan O'Brien on an Australian talk
show, and the host was teaching him some Australian slang, and they
talked about that. :) And is it true that AC/DC is nicknamed "acadaca"
in Australia?

Yeah some people do use that nickname. :)


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On 04-23-19 09:06, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some
callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get access
to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but later I
realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for warez
BBSes to crack down on.

Yeah, that's certainly a possible tactic. I did knows a warez BBS, but stayed out of that scene myself. Messaging was too interesting. :)


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DIGITAL MAN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05 am

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

The Angels pitcher?

No - the old television show Burn Notice. :-)




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MRO wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

The Angels pitcher?

the reference is from the tv show burn notice. Bruce Campbell's
character was a spy and he came up with that alias on the fly when a sports magazine was the first thing he saw when looking around in
haste. ---

Ding Ding! We have a winner!

And then of course if he needed to be a lawyer or financial kinda
guy he'd wear a suit and be "Charles Finley." :-)




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MRO wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

When I ran my original BBS in the 90s, occasionally I'd have some callers saying they heard it's a warez BBS and asking how to get access to the warez. I wasn't running a warez BBS and told them I didn't carry that. I was always wondering where they heard that, but later I realized they may have been from law enforcement looking for warez BBSes to crack down on.

I didn't even know what warez was for a long time. :-)

Way back in the day I worked next door to a sysop and since I had
never met anyone in person from the BBS, I walked over to see him.
I wanted to bring a gift, so I copied a Buick Golf game that I
had gotten in the mail as a promo. He got a call from the other
sysop while we were talking and he told the other sysop to 'give
him access to the other stuff.' Boy was I surprised when I got
home! LOL




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Quoting MRO to Tiny <=-

it's not picking up now unless you changed the port.

Didn't change anything. You may have got blocked in the IP filter
somehow? I'll vnc over and reboot the machine just in case it
crashed. Try port 2023 for the MagickaBBS it's the one I'm actually
trying to modify. ;)

Shawn

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Nightfox to HusTler on Mon Apr 22 2019 09:20 am

I think the story behind my handle is boring, IMO. :P

Mine comes from the fact years ago I was trying to think of a handle, looked down at my feet and saw I was wearing a pair of Reebok DMX sneakers -- so dmxrob was born.

That was a size 11, teenage boy -- today I'm a size 13, mid-40s guy ;-)

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to MRO on Wed Apr 24 2019 12:40 pm

I didn't even know what warez was for a long time. :-)

I've known people who prounounced it "wah-rez". I'm not sure if they just didn't know what warez was or if they were trying to make fun of it or something.

Way back in the day I worked next door to a sysop and since I had
never met anyone in person from the BBS, I walked over to see him.
I wanted to bring a gift, so I copied a Buick Golf game that I
had gotten in the mail as a promo. He got a call from the other
sysop while we were talking and he told the other sysop to 'give
him access to the other stuff.' Boy was I surprised when I got
home! LOL

That's cool. :)
There was maybe one warez BBS I had found back in the day. I tended to get hung up on when I was using that BBS though..

Nightfox

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Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

I was tutoring my FORTRAN class, because the professor didn't have a
clue how to teach, and so I'd walk my friends in the class through the lesson after class.

I had to do something similar in a BASIC class in college... I was
really pissed when I got my grade, too. :(

I got my only A+ in college in that class; mostly because a classmate
and I as our final project were "assigned" porting over some modeling
program from FORTRAN 66 to FORTRAN 77 that I'm sure he was being paid
to do...



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MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

sort of. a 'real sounding name' is the way they normally do things.

I think I told the story about my primary net's handle back in the
dialup days. He ran the othernet on his "real name sounding" handle,
and had a BBS for his business using his real name. Both had Fido node
numbers. He passed echomail from his Fido BBS to his othernet BBS and
got a nastygram from the echomail coordinator saying that the other
handle should pay his fair share of the cost recovery program...


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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Marisag to All on Sun Apr 21 2019 12:39 pm

Back in the 90's I used the handle "qtfemme" but I'm too old to be "cute" anymore ;)

No? Maybe you went from cute to beautiful and didn't realize it? ;-)
HusTler
The Man, the Myth, the Legend

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: dmxrob to Nightfox on Thu Apr 25 2019 11:30 am

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
Mine comes from the fact years ago I was trying to think of a handle, looked down at my feet and saw I was wearing a pair of Reebok DMX sneakers -- so dmxrob was born.

That was a size 11, teenage boy -- today I'm a size 13, mid-40s guy ;-)

So you're a BiG Man that wears Rebok sneakers? Did I see you in 7-11 ?? ;-)
HusTler
The Man, the Myth, the Legend

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to JIMMY ANDERSON on Thu Apr 25 2019 09:46 am

I didn't even know what warez was for a long time. :-)

I've known people who prounounced it "wah-rez". I'm not sure if they just didn't know what warez was or if they were trying to make fun of it or something.
There was maybe one warez BBS I had found back in the day. I tended to get hung up on when I was using that BBS though.

So that means you purchased all your software. What kind of copywrite protection did you have to deal with? Does anyone remember "Type the word on the 6th page first paragraph of your manual"???
HusTler
The Man, the Myth, the Legend

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Heliarc to All on Wed Apr 17 2019 23:02:07

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was

I got mine in 1982.... C64 time. With my friends thinking about what handle should fit me. They said HAWKEYE as I had specific view for details like a hawk. Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called Hawkeye. So I double liked the handle and used it always in the scene. Even now again in the retro scene. A lot of friends of those time are still friends, not all active in retro/computing but some are.
HAWKEYE

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Hawkeye to Heliarc on Thu Apr 25 2019 11:45 pm

Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called

Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

digital man

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Apr 24 2019 12:07 am

Angels pitcher and was once married to that nutball, Tawny Kitaen. Used to see her games often.

oh, OJ simpson's girl on the side.
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Tiny to MRO on Thu Apr 25 2019 08:54 am

Quoting MRO to Tiny <=-

it's not picking up now unless you changed the port.

Didn't change anything. You may have got blocked in the IP filter
somehow? I'll vnc over and reboot the machine just in case it
crashed. Try port 2023 for the MagickaBBS it's the one I'm actually
trying to modify. ;)

Shawn

i am emailing you my ip addy to your gmail address.
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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Digital Man to Hawkeye on Thu Apr 25 2019 15:40:34

Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called

Indeed... sometimes other characters said during interviews Hawkeye was too popular. Other characters are nice too but he is my favorite. Still is. Now doing a lot with helping professionals in medical care with communications, awesome.
HAWKEYE

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Nightfox on Thu Apr 25 2019 03:07 pm

Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to JIMMY ANDERSON on Thu Apr 25 2019 09:46 am

I didn't even know what warez was for a long time. :-)

I've known people who prounounced it "wah-rez". I'm not sure if they ju didn't know what warez was or if they were trying to make fun of it or something.
There was maybe one warez BBS I had found back in the day. I tended to hung up on when I was using that BBS though.

So that means you purchased all your software. What kind of copywrite protection did you have to deal with? Does anyone remember "Type the word on the 6th page first paragraph of your manual"???
HusTler
The Man, the Myth, the Legend

An alternative to the manual was a map or poster that was too big to place on
a copier. I recall having a Star Trek game with a map with colored stars and text that wouldn't copy over easily

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Sun Apr 21 2019 08:37 am

MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

sort of. a 'real sounding name' is the way they normally do things.

I think I told the story about my primary net's handle back in the
dialup days. He ran the othernet on his "real name sounding" handle,
and had a BBS for his business using his real name. Both had Fido node numbers. He passed echomail from his Fido BBS to his othernet BBS and
got a nastygram from the echomail coordinator saying that the other
handle should pay his fair share of the cost recovery program...

oh yes. the cost recovery program.

i remember they were baiting me asking me what i thought of it.
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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Moondog to Hustler on Fri Apr 26 2019 08:40 am

An alternative to the manual was a map or poster that was too big to place on
a copier. I recall having a Star Trek game with a map with colored stars and text that wouldn't copy over easily

Let's not forget also the maps with the "decoder" red or blue piece of plastic you had to put over them! That would stop them! Of course, back then, it did slow us down a bit :-)

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Marisag to All on Sun Apr 21 2019 12:39 pm

Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: MRO to Heliarc on Sun Apr 21 2019 10:13:00

Back in the 90's I used the handle "qtfemme" but I'm too old to be "cute" anymore ;)

are you really a female or are you a g.i.r.l
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Digital Man wrote to Hawkeye <=-

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Hawkeye to Heliarc on Thu Apr 25 2019 11:45 pm

Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called

Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

Either him or Houlihan... ;-)



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should fit me. They said HAWKEYE as I had specific view for details like a hawk. Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called Hawkeye.

Great show. I liked it a little more when I was younger, though. The
later episodes sometimes feel too "preachy" for me. :)

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Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

Hot Lips!!! :D

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: Dan Clough to Digital Man on Fri Apr 26 2019 09:57 am

Digital Man wrote to Hawkeye <=-

Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias" How did you come up with it.
By: Hawkeye to Heliarc on Thu Apr 25 2019 11:45 pm

Funny thing is... my favorite character of MASH 4077 is called

Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

Either him or Houlihan... ;-)

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Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

Colonel Flagg was mine.


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Wasn't he everyone's favorite charactoer on MASH? :-)

Colonel Flagg was mine.

Lol, he was a real piece of work. :)

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Marisag on Thu Apr 25 2019 14:56:01

No? Maybe you went from cute to beautiful and didn't realize it? ;-)

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Hustler to Marisag on Thu Apr 25 2019 14:56:01

No? Maybe you went from cute to beautiful and didn't realize it? ;-)

LOL thanks. Sorry about the empty post...

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05:00

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

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Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Alias"
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to HELIARC on Sat Apr 20 2019 08:05:00

I've started using the name Chuck Finley at resteraunts and
such when they ask for a name, so that's kinda my alias, you
might say... Anyone know the reference for that? :-)

burn notice -=B-)

Exactly! I've never had a suit on when I need to do it, though,
or it would be Charles Finley, of course. :-)




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So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is
was 1978. The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey
I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get
yours..

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: Nightfox to Hustler on Sat Apr 20 2019 21:50:54

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...

a lot of systems took to posting that bulletin saying something like "according to blah blah, we monitor all activities, etc" which actually opened them up for more liability because they couldn't monitor every single post or file that came through... especially network posts when you might get 1000 or more a day...

i've had folks tell me they could catch the posts like that... my reply to them was just such a message that contained a hidden message for those that knew how to find it... once the hidden message was pointed out to them, they realized and kinda backed off that stance...

PS: yes, i know this post is old... i'm just catching up on this area... using ssh from the linux terminal command line with DM's new unicode translation stuff... works pretty damned well, too! :) my next stop, once i finish reading these next 900 or so posts is the advertisement area with all the ANSI posts... i'm curious to see how they work... my initial screens looked great so i don't expect much trouble :)


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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.

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Re: Re: Your BBS "Handle" "Al
By: poindexter FORTRAN to wkitty42 on Tue Jul 09 2019 10:37 pm

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.

i had some asshole who runs a bbs sign up for my newsletter and then report it as spam directly to my isp. like he took the extra mile. all of a sudden stuff doesnt work right. it works half okay because i dont use their dns servers. ISP tried some trick to get my attention. they could have called me but they didnt.

anyways, i called them up when i figure it out and i said 'i'm fine with running servers for personal useage, right? i dont run a busines' they say 'yes sir'

then i said, go look at my websites and see they are not even on the same ISP as you and see what they are for.

they unlocked my account and made it so some fuckwad cant do that to me again. hi foxriver.net
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On 4/17/19 10:02 PM, Heliarc wrote:

So how did you come up with your BBS "Handle" "Alias"?? For me is was 1978.
The CB craze was in full swing! I turnerned on the radio and some cuet girl asked me what my handke was. I looked around my room and saw a mgazine name HusTler. She asked me again what's you hanfdle honey I told her handle was HusTler ans the name stuck. Ho did you get yours..

Heliarc

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