Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 18:58:11 GMT From: "_Lowrent _" <lowrentgroove@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You might want to know this! Message-ID: <19991201185811.38238.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I use an alias name, or screen name so I can nail anyone who tries to send me junk snail mail. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org> To: Mark Allen Cockrum <cockrum@cc.wwu.edu> CC: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, ****@***.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You might want to know this! Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 04:17:17 -0800 (PST) On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mark Allen Cockrum wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Wolfskill wrote > > > >If you go to Hotbot and search your screen name any postings you have > > >posted here at FreeBSD will show up. > > > > I'm not at all sure what is meant by "screen name," but that sounds like > > a term that folks would associate with immature individuals on a BBS. > > > > Many of us, in some sense, may well warrant the term "newbies", but > > there are certainly some of us who never got involved in BBSs... and > > there are some of us who -- chronologically, at least -- aren't of an age > > that one would reasonably associate with immaturity. > > After all, we all know only "immature individuals" and "malicious hackers" > would ever use somthing as arcane as a BBS, or make use of a "screen name" > or handle. And ceritanly only the immature would ever care about personal > information being released on the internet, or computer security in > general. I think that a UNIX system administrator such as yourself (as > i'm sure you must be, since you put in your message footer) would > certianly agree that anyone who uses a handle or screen name in a > e-mail obviously has somthing to hide, and should be incarcerated for > their actions immediately. > > Just a thought. > > Even though this is getting horribly off-topic, I must contibute my thoughts in response to this. Since when was a BBS ever an immature-hackerish-type-thing? I don't believe 300 baud modems were designed for future internet use, thus meaning their was other purposes for them. I've set up BBS software for charity causes, supplying Internet access to students who can not afford it and so on. Also, as far as the handle/screen-name/alias etc goes... have you ever stopped to think about the paranoia that the media pushes on the average person (who probably does not know better) as far as their personal security is concerned? Perhaps a lovely young lady who does not feel like getting a few hundred "You have a pretty name, we should get together" messages a day, or hell --- I'm sure some enjoy being called by a nickname. Cheers, -Chris England To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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