{"id":33535,"date":"2024-04-19T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=33535"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:11:47","slug":"digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-restric-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-restric-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 \u2013 RESTRIC.DOC"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:<\/p>\n

I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then, I have been occasionally posting the content here.<\/p>\n

Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.<\/p>\n

A description of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”<\/p>\n

This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi\u2019s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don\u2019t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.<\/p>\n

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This post includes the contents of RESTRIC.DOC which is dated September 26th, 1985. It contains “membership restrictions”. This is primarily a description of the policies of this SIG regarding behavior in both conferences (live chats) and forums. Basically, it is sort of a three strikes and your out type of policy.<\/p>\n

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.lt\n\nThis message is being left as a statement of policy of the managers of\nthe Close Encounters sig.\n\nMembership Restrictions:\n\nMembership in 'Close Encounters' is restricted to persons who are at\nleast 18 years of age or older.  The reason for this is that the sig\ndeals with matters of a sexual\/personal nature ranging from the very\ngeneral to the very explicit.\n\nAlthough it's difficult to verify age via this medium, anyone found to\nhave violated the age requirement will be denied access to the sig at\nthe discretion of the sig managers.\n\nWe are all adults here, and as such, are expected to extend to all the\nsame courtesies that we would expect.  However, in no way or form will\nthe sig managers tolerate deliberate maliscious or disruptive\nbehavior.\n \nPersonnal attacks (especially when unfounded in fact), profane or\nother verbal abuse will also not be allowed.  Such behavior has no\nplace in this sig.\n\nConference Disruptions:\n\nShould anyone attempt to disrupt one of our regularly scheduled Saturday night conferences, the following actions will be taken in order shown here:\n\n          <<caution>>     things are getting out of hand\n\n          <<warning>>     second and last reminder of above\n\n          '\/squ'          persons who persist in proscribed\n                          behavior may be squelched and thus\n                          ignored by the moderator at that co.\n \n          'access denied' This is a drastic move and will be used\n                          in future if needed to handle 'hard'\n                          cases.\n \n\nForum Disruptions:\n\nWe <the sig managers'> will not \"censor\" any messages posted in the\nForum.  However, should a member attempt to disrupt the sig via the\nForum, the following actions will be taken:\n\n<first offense>   The message will be deleted from the Forum and mail\n                  will be sent to the author's username explaining why\n                  it was deleted.  The sig managers will retain on\n                  file copies of the message and any mail sent or\n                  received regarding it.\n\n<second offense>  The message will be deleted from the Forum and mail\n                  sent to the offending party with a **WARNING - \n                  SECOND OFFENSE** notice that any further such\n                  activities will result in loss of sig access.\n                  Copies of the message and mail sent\/received will be\n                  added to the first offense file.\n\n<third offense>   The message will be deleted and mail sent to the\n                  offending party, as well as Delphi officials, that\n                  the user has been denied access to the sig.  Copies\n                  of the files retained above will also be sent to\n                  Delphi officials.\n\n\nAlthough these policies may seem rather stern on the surface, please\nremember that we don't expect to encounter problems that will mean\nenforcing such measures. However to avoid any misunderstandings these\npolicies must be stated to all members.\n\nThank you for your patience, understanding, respect and consideration\nin these matters.\n\n\n                          Connie A. Buys, Sig Manager\n                          John P. Yerger, Assist. Manager\n\n.el\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then, I have been occasionally posting the content here. Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s. A description of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.” This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi\u2019s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don\u2019t know if there are any archives in existence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-33535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-delphi","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33537,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535\/revisions\/33537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}