Subj : Re: +++ Day
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Oct 19 2025 06:53:10

  Re: Re: +++ Day
  By: Daryl Stout to phigan on Fri Oct 17 2025 12:22 pm

 DS> When I was running GT Power under dial-up 30 years ago, a fellow Sysop and
 DS> ham radio operator had logged on. We were in chat, and I decided to play a
 DS> joke on him.

 DS> He stepped away from the console for a few minutes, and I typed in NO
 DS> CARRIER -- to make it look like we had gotten disconnected. Shortly
 DS> thereafter, he disconnected!!

I used to use RemoteAccess to run my BBS in the 90s, and at the time, I often used IceChat to chat with users.  IceChat had a sysop feature where it could create fake line noise, generating random characters at random locations on the screen.  So if you didn't want to chat with a user anymore, you could start doing that and say there's line noise so that they'd go away. :P

Nightfox

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