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  • Re: Reading QWK files und

    From Brokenmind@TIABBS to Vk3jed on Friday, February 03, 2023 11:08:50
    Re: Re: Reading QWK files und
    By: Vk3jed to Brokenmind on Sat Nov 02 2019 10:05 pm

    I had someone on a BBS when i was in the 4th or 5th grade that would
    have come
    to house and picked me up and took me to a motel so I could see real
    porn and quote "Mabey we can mess around" I'm so thankfull I did not
    take that person up on there offer...Also when i was around that age
    I was hit up by an adult multi times on a synchronet system from the
    bay area and I actually contacted the SysOp and was told that he had
    been doing this to a number of young people and he said he would
    look into it.... BBS could be a dangerous place and the internet is
    even worse.

    Never had any of those issues with our users AFAIK. But we didn't run chat (kinda pointless with only one line), and in those days, the sysop was able to read all messages, including private ones - today's software has capabilities unheard of back then.

    yes thankfull there are better features and security but the internet is still a dangerous place for kids. I actually was a part of a group of volunters that worked to take down online predators in the early 2005. I also knew a few members also from Perverted Justice that was on Dateline to catch a predator. i was a volunter that got involved after someone went after my daughter when she was 14. But again i had her computer rigged to alert me and caught it before it got out of hand and beacuse of the laws of were i lived at the time law enforcement declined to go after the perp long story I got invloved with said group and we exposed him to his friends family and worked. turned out he was a volunter first responder on top of it.

    BrokenMind

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  • From Brokenmind@TIABBS to Moondog on Friday, February 03, 2023 11:10:40
    Re: Re: Reading QWK files und
    By: Moondog to Brokenmind on Sat Nov 02 2019 11:25 am

    I wish transcripts were easily available, because others who had plead guilty had much lower sentences, such as 9 months.
    guilty had much lower sentences, such as 9 months.
    I here ya i don't have any trust in the justice system now. though I know a lot of Good people that are first responders including Law Enforcemnet but then again there are always bad apples out there..

    brokenmind

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