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Shout out to a fellow Renegade sysop. I don't believe I asked for anybody's home address, but maybe I've just forgotten. In the town where I lived, most of the
by karaterobot 5y ago
Shout out to a fellow Renegade sysop. I don't believe I asked for anybody's home address, but maybe I've just forgotten. In the town where I lived, most of the BBS people knew each other, plus everyone was in the phone book anyway, so it wouldn't have made a ton of difference.
But I agree that I was so much less concerned about privacy back then. Likely that was out of ignorance, but also because the threat to privacy is different on the internet. In a widely networked world, the .001% of people who are malicious actors still amount to a huge number of malicious actors that didn't exist in a community of a couple hundred people.