From: Wind-Walker Area: RPSTOVAL To: Gerald Del Campo 31 Aug 92 21:16:02 Subject: Re: BBS Freedom of Speec UpdReq quoting GERALD DEL CAMPO To: JONATHON ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ GDC}> JB> stop & read the electronic mail security act of 1986 GDC}> JB> sometime. and then read the subsequent legislation GDC}>Is it available in ascii? downloadable from the Turtle Shell 404-814-9159 GDC}>This is true only to the extent that SOME people are GDC}>incourage to bullshit BBS and other free speech avenues. they could always leave blank lines --- i personally am more interested in what the caller is interested that where they wsork, or the rest. << anyway, if i was that interested, its just a few phone calls to find out where they work, and a few more phone calls to verify employment --- regardless of where they are employed. >> GDC}>Some people, on the other hand, could loose their jobs if GDC}>their governmental employees found out they had any occult GDC}>interest what-so-ever. Possible. but then i have also come across some who were paid a bonus due to their interest in the occult. << a lot of boils down to how good you are on your job, as to whether your "occult interest" will help or hurt your career. GDC}>Where is (404)? atlanta ga GDC}>Again, like I mentioned to Phil, how do THEY know YOU are GDC}>not some government funded BBS who wants names and GDC}>addresses. The trust thing has to go both ways. True, they don't. But over half the boards here require one to mail in a copy of one's drivers licence for access --- including the occult ones << which appear to be down permanently. << & i'm not just refering to adult chat lines that have that requirement >> GDC}>I agree that we need more truth and integrety in society. GDC}>It is the mistrust perpetuated by 'the powers that be' that GDC}>sometimes makes it difficult to tell the truth in the first GDC}>place. & those who get paid to lie, that create even more of a problem. 93 wind-walker * SLMR 2.1a * Breast size times I.Q. is constant. 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Wind-Walker Area: RPSTOVAL To: Frater Ehubi 2 Sep 92 18:46:12 Subject: Bbs Freedom Of Speech UpdReq quoting FRATER EHUBI To: PHIL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FE}> In what sense did BBSs begin "around 25 years ago"? I FE}>would date BBSing as we recognize the term to around 1980. In 1975, Steve Jobs made a modem for the Apple 1 that computer is generally considered to be the first commercially available pc. before that there were modems hooked up to mainframes. these were hooked together in ARPNET back in the sixties and seventies. ARPNEt later de-evolved into the internet. I would feel that calling ARPNET then would be akin to calling a bbs today. 93 jonathon * SLMR 2.1a * Commercial radio, commercial radio, commercial r 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Wind-Walker Area: RPSTOVAL To: Scott Brush 5 Sep 92 03:59:24 Subject: Greetings UpdReq quoting SCOTT BRUSH To: GERALD DEL CAMPO ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ SB}>The Hebrew letters are actually derived from the shadows SB}>given off by a certain object at different orientations. SB}>They're meant to guide the mind in meditation to break SB}>through to dimensions beyond the second. i had always wondered about that. did he also tell which three letters can be combined to write every other letter out? SB}>On another topic, L.A. seems to have calmed down a bit since the riots. SB}>While there is no doubt that bad feelings still exist with SB}>bitter intensity, it doesn't feel like another riot is SB}>about to break out. Hopefully the new police chief, SB}>Willie Williams, a human being rather than a vicious SB}>tyrant, can make life better for us in dealing with the has LAPD permanently shut down and destroyed all the files, and the units that did nothing but track private citizens lives, regardless of whether or not a crime had been committed, or will be committed? Has the LAPD sstopped using its policy of aggressively persuing and injuring alleged suspects, for alleged crimes? Has the LAPD started to fire all officers for beating up peoplle, just for the pleasue of beating them up? Until those things are done, LAPD is just another eneky, to be shot and killed untill all are dead --- because that is the attitude that they take against the general population. 93 wind-walker * SLMR 2.1a * Com'on folks, get a life! It's all just 1s & 0s! 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Wind-Walker Area: RPSTOVAL To: Phil Hansford 5 Sep 92 04:06:26 Subject: Re: BBS FREEDOM OF SPEEC UpdReq quoting PHIL HANSFORD To: FRATER EHUBI ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ PH}>And the whole thing has been snowballing ever since. Fidonet started in 1984. In June 1984 fidonet was ccreated. << 30 nodes in august 1984 >> In 1985 a St Louis node took over handling node listings, and the like. in 1986, echomail, as we know it today, was developed for fidonet --- by Jeff Rush, a dallas /ft worth sysop. and today there are 15649 boards connected up to fidonet worldwide. << and there are also 40+ different nets that bbs can be members of >> << source: boardwatch octobder 1992 93 wind-walker * SLMR 2.1a * Coming soon from Microsoft Foods: Animal Hackers 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718