Subj : Re: Oprah Pay
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ron L.
Date : Fri Nov 22 2024 08:29:52

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

 AT> Do they have a dictionary of phone numbers though? (Probably!)

We did back in the day.  War dialers were common.

A while back, I set up a BBS on an old Raspberry PI setup that I had.  It was
an experiment to test out some ideas.  Part of the experiment was that I needed
to access it from work - so I opened it to the Internet on the router and set
the port to something weird.

Keep in mind that at no time did I advertise this BBS.  I did not post my IP
address and say that there was a BBS here.  Nothing.  But one day someone
logged in as a new user.  So I took care of that - actually a couple of times
because the guy couldn't understand things.

But, lo and behold, my experiment ended up on the Telnet BBS list! By then, I
had ended the experiment and the BBS was no longer there, so no problem for me.
 I let the maintainer of the Telnet BBS list what happened and asked him to
remove the BBS entry.

But, still, some people seem to have no time other than stick their noses where
they don't belong.

.... Honesty pays, but not enough for some.
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