Subj : Re: Acid-X BBS??? To : alt.bbs,alt.bbs.doors,alt.bbs.ads From : zero Date : Tue Jan 06 2004 05:59 pm On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:33:43 -0600, "Mike Snyder" wrote: >"zero" wrote in message >news:so1kvv0lht513eg183kcurgsk2itno46ls@4ax.com... >> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:00:27 -0600, "Mike Snyder" >> wrote: > >> For starters that door was downloaded with the crack bundled in. >> Door has been removed. > >Do you remember where it was downloaded? If not, any clues that might help >me look for it? > Off hand no , I did a google search for BBS and was some 15 or 16 pages in. That day I connected with a bunch of boards there on there and looked around. >> Back in the days (96-97) I've sent out many door registrations that I >> didn't get codes for but the checks got, I used postal money orders. I >> tried contacting the authors at first with no reply. I then started to >> go strait to filing complaints to all the cashed Money orders. Some >> got charged I guess, I didn't always get my money back or any >> paperwork back . My only records in those days are what I put in my >> BBS note book about the doors I registered or tried to register. >> BTW any copies of cashed money order checks are faxed and fade over >> time. > >You can undertsand though, how it was weird that instead of being asked to >follow through with the reg codes, The game was simply removed and my access >blocked... Sorry again, I blocked everybody's access threw that time to check threw my filebase for questionable files. > >> My comments to you are out of fustigation of those days. I didn't >> know you'll take it poorly, the one who cashed that check caught. It >> wasn't you. I'm sorry for my comment. I did delete the cracked game. > >Thanks. The shareware version, though, is still free. > Will download a clean copy. >> All the remaining doors on my board are legal registered by me. >> Sorry about the lower level, I needed time to look threw my filebase >> for that door file with the crack bundled with it along with anything >> that shouldn't be there, it's deleted too. > >Was there a file_id.diz or anything, showing where it was downloaded? I'd >like to track it back to the source, if possible. I don't remember seeing one. I'll have to check threw my trash bin. I don't think it's there anymore. > >> You may wish to look around at the present BBS world before you pass >> judgement on my, you'll find worse offenders than me out there. I only >> had a few cracked doors that are now deleted. > >I don't doubt it. I haven't visited many boards lately. I've been looking like the old days to see what's out there. Things aren't like they once were. > >> I'm not running a board that promote that sort of thing. > >My posts explain how I came to that assumption. My appologies if I jumped to >conclusions. >Good luck with the Acid-X board! I made a poor choice with that door. I should have followed up but in those days there was other more pressing things going on. > >Mike Snyder >Prowler Productions > .