Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan - and the future?
To   : k9zw
From : paulie420
Date : Tue Dec 03 2024 06:54 pm

 k9> It was before that, but I also pulled the plug about the time that sysops
 k9> started getting arrested for crap that users left on their BBSes.  

I kinda came along to BBSes JUST after that stuff was going on. (There was still many more busts after, but...) I came onto the scene in 1993 - when the in thing was more textmode than warez. (Altho that still existed!) 

I don't think it was ever a good idea to go after hordes of 18 y/o's who were highly intelligent albeit going down the wrong road... right when I got hip to the 'scene' it was the end of raids and whatnot. Altho I was involved in a few BBSes that were visited by three letter agencies.

I feel bad for the real ones, like Rusty N Edies - who weren't really pirates but their users had software that slipped through the cracks. They WEREN'T 18 y/o's and it really affected their adult lives.

They were the pioneers, caught up in a w0rld of shit. The man wanted to crack on piracy, hacking, phreaking and anything they didn't understand. Sure there was tons of bad stuff going on - but the vast majority was technology moving faster than the man knew how to understand.

Ugh. :P



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