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  • Tom Dick and Harry?

    From Crackerjak@80:774/82 to All on Tue Oct 9 22:23:34 2018
    Okay, if there was a way to lock my user name to only me, this would solve a few issues I have. Imagine if you will, you're out and about. Your phone gives you a beep, because someone mentioned you in a post.
    Cannot happen here, as there could be a Tom in Russia who is Crackerjak, or a Dick in Africa who is Crackerjak, and a Harry in the UK that is also a Crackerjak.
    I understand the diversity of BBS's. PCs never play nice with anthing other than a PC. So is this even a possibility, that I could have my handle across BBS's running on OS's across the globe? I strongly doubt it. There would have to be a centralized hub of every user account that would have to be checked every time some harry dick named tom tried to login as my handle to prevent this. But could this hub/database ever see the light of day and would it be practical to the BBS community?
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    * Origin: Second Coming :: scbbs.ddns.net:6400 (80:774/82)
  • From Atreyu@80:519/40 to Crackerjak on Thu Oct 11 07:05:03 2018
    On 09 Oct 18 22:23:34, Crackerjak said the following to All:

    to be a centralized hub of every user account that would have to be checked every time some harry dick named tom tried to login as my handle to prevent this. But could this hub/database ever see the light of day and would it be practical to the BBS community?

    I certainly hope not, for a couple of reasons. It requires someone to be in charge of maintaining it, and existing BBS software will never work with it.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (80:519/40)
  • From Crackerjak@80:774/82 to Atreyu on Fri Oct 12 04:03:42 2018
    On Thu 11-Oct-2018 7:05a, Atreyu@80:519/40.0 said to Crackerjak:

    I certainly hope not, for a couple of reasons. It requires someone to be
    in
    charge of maintaining it, and existing BBS software will never work with
    it.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (80:519/40)

    Someone controlling every account....like facebuck? Not a good idea afterall. ÖÄÄ· · þ ·
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    * Origin: Second Coming :: scbbs.ddns.net:6400 (80:774/82)