Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!well!msudoc!umich!itivax!m-net!meg From: meg@m-net.UUCP (Meg Geddes) Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Wanted - UUCP for MS-DOS Message-ID: <878@m-net.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 23:56:56 EST Article-I.D.: m-net.878 Posted: Thu Jan 8 23:56:56 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 03:49:32 EST References: <228@hqda-ai.UUCP> <904@mhuxi.UUCP> <1607@hoptoad.uucp> <906@mhuxi.UUCP> Reply-To: meg@m-net.UUCP (Meg Geddes) Distribution: na Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 26 Xref: mnetor misc.wanted:410 comp.mail.uucp:126 In article <906@mhuxi.UUCP> crayinc@mhuxi.UUCP writes: > > If anyone has ever run a BBS they will find out quickly why you > can't leave it open. You get tired of Donald Duck, Goofy and the > the elfs leaving obsene messages or credit card numbers and info. > > The best are the neat little trojan horses which attempt to wipe > out the BBS or the hard disk of the unsuspecting person who calls > the totally open BBS and downloads that little jewel. > For what it's worth (and granted this is drift) I have run a bbs called netMeg for over a year now that is completely open to the public from the first call. Never had a serious problem yet. Obscene messages get deleted, all programs are tested if not by me, by someone, never had any illegal type messages, and the only nasty programs I get are occasional non-public domain ones which are deleted immediately. I believe I've had maybe two obscene messages on my board since I started it. So, for whatever reasons, it *can* work. I'm sorry others have not had this experience. -- Meg Geddes M-NET, Ann Arbor, Michigan {!ihnp4!itivax!m-net!meg} or {!ihnp4!chinet!meg} Don't take life so seriously... it ain't nohow permanent...