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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BBS Confiscation (and people deliberately breaking in)
Message-ID: <514@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 16:21:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 16:21:11 1984
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Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Portland
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> From: barry@ames-lm.UUCP
> Message-ID: <292@ames-lm.UUCP>
> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 00:09:45 PDT
> 
> 	I heard recently that the system-manglers are even attacking
> the BBS's! Apparently a number of the local BBS's have been brought down
> intentionally by people calling in. Are there any sysops out there who
> have encountered this, or heard about it?

My brother manages the Portland [Oregon] Atari Club BBS
{(503)245-9405}.  He's had lots of trouble lately with a guy who calls
himself "Boy George".  "BG" logs in to the PACBBS, giving false login
information (sometimes obscene), and attempts to tie up the BBS for
long periods of time and send useless (and sometimes obscene) messages
to the SYSOP.

I've electronically chatted with this guy for a good couplea hours now
(although I still don't know who he is), and it appears that he is just
today's electronic equivalent of the guys with their spray paint cans
doing vandalism to the bridges and walls.  He's apparently been kicked
off from other Portland-area systems, and has done no specific damage,
other than the loss of a lot of access time for our single-user BBS.
He hasn't managed to bring the BBS down (although we've had a couple
people do that by finding software bugs).

Yes, given a media, some people will find means, motive, and opportunity
to abuse it.  That's life.

-- A particularly personal and original observation from the thought-stream of
Randal L. ("not a BBS") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
	(Official Legendary Sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (503)626-5700 (sequent = 1/quosine)
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