🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <906@mhuxi.UUCP> crayinc@mhuxi.UUCP writes:
>
>      If anyone has ever run a BBS they will find out quickly why you
>      can't leave it open. You get tired of Donald Duck, Goofy and the
>      the elfs leaving obsene messages or credit card numbers and info.
>      
>      The best are the neat little trojan horses which attempt to wipe
>      out the BBS or the hard disk of the unsuspecting person who calls
>      the totally open BBS and downloads that little jewel.
>

For what it's worth (and granted this is drift) I have run a bbs called
netMeg for over a year now that is completely open to the public from the
first call.  Never had a serious problem yet.  Obscene messages get deleted,
all programs are tested if not by me, by someone, never had any illegal
type messages, and the only nasty programs I get are occasional non-public
domain ones which are deleted immediately.  I believe I've had maybe two
obscene messages on my board since I started it.  So, for whatever reasons,
it *can* work.  I'm sorry others have not had this experience.


-- 
	Meg Geddes M-NET, Ann Arbor, Michigan
	{!ihnp4!itivax!m-net!meg} or {!ihnp4!chinet!meg}

        Don't take life so seriously... it ain't nohow permanent...