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  • Re: Time Warp BBS (Temp)

    From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Bob Roberts on Sun Jan 10 04:50:00 2021
    On 01-08-21 19:13, Bob Roberts wrote to Bucko <=-

    I cringe when I think about the BBS I ran in the 90's and how invasive
    the questions were to sign up. Address, Birthday, Gender? Why the
    hell did anyone need to know that to login to a BBS?

    I pruned my new user questions a bit. :)


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  • From Melkor@21:4/171 to Shitty on Sat Jan 9 20:57:22 2021
    Re: Re: Time Warp BBS (Temp)
    By: Shitty to Bob Roberts on Sat Jan 09 2021 06:01 am

    Why the hell did anyone need to know that to login to a BBS?
    That's a good point. It's safe to assume that BBS SysOps back in the early days were sexual predators. I'm glad I always gave them fake info!
    My personal experience from back then is that 1. There were more females involved in bbsing then there are now. 2. There was a more diverse age range then there is now.
    So on my BBS back then I had a female co-sysop and she moderated a message area that was for females only. If you answered the questions correctly and were a female you got access to that area by it setting the proper flag. Also was in an adult (18+) message network so if you answered the age question correctly you had access to those areas. So there were some valid reasons for those questions back then.
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  • From Shitty@21:1/197 to Melkor on Sun Jan 10 02:12:36 2021
    answered the age question correctly you had access to those areas. So there were some valid reasons for those questions back then.

    For porn purposes? lol

    It's funny to think about it now days because many of us know that's how
    dating sites work. They need to know gender, age, etc.

    But some early 90s sysops need to know which porn genre to give us access to!

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