Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : Spectre
Date : Sat Apr 02 2022 12:51:00

 bo> The really jarring thing, as I found with FidoNet, is that I didn't know
 bo> that posts with my REAL NAME would be on the Internet.  I actually felt
 bo> violated and pissed off, and found this very, very poor form.  No, the

I'm going to start here with, I don't put my real name on anything that is
any form of online, BBS, FacePlant or anywhere else. That stems from
discussions about privacy all the way back at Yr10/Form 3 computer studies,
that kind of thinking seems to have gone completely by the wayside these days
though.

Fido has a history of wanting real names for access to its echoes though...
then it gets shady as to what can be done with the echoes by any particular
BBS.  I started with the theory of feeding FSX into a local news server and
from there to a local and limited forum on the TLP website.. this partially
eventuated but not being happy with the achievable result I scrapped it.  Now
someone else might decide its a great thing to pop it up on an open forum,
and then your name is out there for all to see.. but you had to use it for
FIDO in the first place.  I'm not sure there's a hard and fast answer there,
unless FIDO rule implemented regarding suitable use of the network/echo data.

Spec


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