Subj : Re: Most recent elisting of this area
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Jan 26 2021 14:32:04

  Re: Re: Most recent elisting of this area
  By: Charles Pierson to Alan Ianson on Tue Jan 26 2021 07:24 am

 CP> I believe that there were quite a few echos like that at some point. I
 CP> never really understood the 'real names' requirement for message areas,
 CP> since Aliases or Handles were such a big part of the BBS community, at
 CP> least in my area. But I accepted it.

Real names was a fairly big thing in Fidonet but not othernets so much. Fidonet doesn't require real names but the echo rules did in a lot of (most) cases.

There is no real name rule in any of the areas I moderate but I still use my real name in most fido areas because it is the norm in so many areas.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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