Subj : Twit filter
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Jan 12 2022 10:52:01

Hello Daryl,

Tuesday January 11 2022 22:33, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 DS>   Most BBS packages have one. Since 1992, I've run GT Power, Virtual
 DS> Advanced (VADV32), and now Synchronet. They have a "trashcan file"
 DS> where you can put things like obscenities (I've known individuals who
 DS> would rather logon with vulgar names than their real name), and if
 DS> they try to provide that name, they're told "it's in use, or not
 DS> allowed" (more likely the latter if it's vulgar).

Thankfully, that is something most BBS software I have run over the years has something like that.  I should add that functionality into MBSE as well as a twit filter because ... like the old saying goes, there's an asshole in every crowd but Fidonet seems to have more than its fair share. <G>

 DS>   My wife and I had the privilege to meet Sean several years ago, a
 DS> few years before she died...and I've never had a problem with him.
 DS> He's also a fellow amateur radio operator...so we have that and our
 DS> BBS's in common. And, his CHEEPWARE software has some neat stuff with
 DS> it...my programming ends at setting the clock on the microwave
 DS> oven...I guess I'll starve to death if I forget how to do that. <G>

Thanks for the flowers and it was a pleasure meeting you and Janice even though how we wound up meeting wasn't exactly fun for me.  At least that breakdown happened near Little Rock and not somewhere in eastern Oklahoma.

 DS> ... I'm not deaf...I'm ignoring you.

How appropriate.

-- Sean

.... A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
--- GoldED/2 3.0.1
 * Origin: Outpost BBS Sysop Console (1:18/200)

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