Subj : Back to the BBS - The ret
To   : Ed Vance
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Dec 20 2020 08:08:00

Hello Ed!

** On Saturday 19.12.20 - 21:54, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:

 EV> I can't recommend BBS's to anyone still going to Public
 EV> Schools because some people write foul words in their
 EV> messages.

I haven't come across that very much. However, places in  
newsgoups and even 8chan and 4chan were rife with it.

From a technical standpoint, I liked the way 8chan operated.   
It looked easy to set up your own "board" and manage users.

I just read that 8chan rebranded as 8kun, but it looks like  
the whole operation is nolonger found.


 EV> There is a lot of very good information in BBS Echo
 EV> Conferences. I save many messages to refer to later. I
 EV> edit some messages after I saved them, to make them G
 EV> Rated.

Reediting them is a lot of work!


 EV> If I ran a BBS it would lose most of the Users because I
 EV> would check messages written by my Users and Edit out any
 EV> foul words before they left my BBS.

It would be easier just to twit them out.  By censoring the  
messages you are still rather enabling the problem from your  
visitors.

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