Subj : biking
To   : Moondog
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Feb 09 2023 04:30 pm

  Re: biking
  By: Moondog to Cougar428 on Thu Feb 09 2023 12:36 pm

 Mo> Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could view
 Mo> all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access because
 Mo> we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked to play
 Mo> games and talk dirty with other board members. We were concerned for her
 Mo> safety with regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my
 Mo> friend's next door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a
 Mo> graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't want any part of here.
 Mo> He said she was too crazy

Online safety is definitely a concern, and back when BBSes were in their heyday, I'm not sure many people realized what was going on sometimes.  When I was 13 (1993), there was a local BBS I was using where another user had contacted me and said she was a girl about my age and said "she" had wanted to meet up and do some stuff, but just a couple days later, I noticed that user's account no longer existed on that BBS.  I had a feeling the sysop(s) may have seen the message and perhaps that person had done some other things to make it seem they weren't who they said they were.

And before that, when I was 12 and first starting to use BBSes, there was one local BBS that had a matchmaker door.  There was a girl my age I started talking to there and we ended up exchanging phone numbers.  She called our house one day and I talked to her for a minute (she did sound like a 12 year old girl) but at the time I felt a little weird about talking to an unknown girl like that and I didn't talk to her again.

Nightfox

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