Re: biking
By: Moondog to Cougar428 on Thu Feb 09 2023 12:36 pm
Mo> Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could view
Mo> all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access because
Mo> we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked to play
Mo> games and talk dirty with other board members. We were concerned for her
Mo> safety with regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my
Mo> friend's next door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a
Mo> graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't want any part of here.
Mo> He said she was too crazy
Online safety is definitely a concern, and back when BBSes were in their heyday,
I'm not sure many people realized what was going on sometimes. When I was 13 (
1993), there was a local BBS I was using where another user had contacted me and
said she was a girl about my age and said "she" had wanted to meet up and do so
me stuff, but just a couple days later, I noticed that user's account no longer
existed on that BBS. I had a feeling the sysop(s) may have seen the message and
perhaps that person had done some other things to make it seem they weren't who
they said they were.
And before that, when I was 12 and first starting to use BBSes, there was one lo
cal BBS that had a matchmaker door. There was a girl my age I started talking t
o there and we ended up exchanging phone numbers. She called our house one day
and I talked to her for a minute (she did sound like a 12 year old girl) but at
the time I felt a little weird about talking to an unknown girl like that and I
didn't talk to her again.
Nightfox
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