Weve had a complaint from the owner of the libertytree.com domain.

He asks, rather heatedly and rudely, that you not use his e-mail address, since hes receiving all your comments.

Other posters... please watch your handles and make sure you own the domain if youre using an anon name.

And please dont use .com, .net or .org in your name if its NOT real.

Thanks.

Diane
A TBY2K Sysop

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000

Answers

Diane

Is he still at it?

See thread below.

-- Common Man (me@anothertree.ohh), February 05, 2000.

Diane,

You said not to use ".com" in our "names" if it's not real. I've used ".com" since I started in my fake e-mail address. Can I assume by your post when you say "name" you're referring to the e- mail address? If so, I'll change mine.

Thanks,

-- eve (123@4567.com), February 05, 2000.

Eve Yup.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 05, 2000.

eve,

You can check to see if a dot com, etc., is owned by checking the Internet Solutions (InterNIC) WhoIs database...

http:// www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/

Actually, checked and someone in another country DOES own 4567.com. Go figure.

*Grin*

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Common... Yes/No/Maybe. Looks like youre learning.

;-D

Was just responding to the Sysop e-mail and following through on the wrist slap Id promised the domain owner.

BTW... you might just check charteroak.com or anothertree.com while youre still posting. Or... how about just NOT using the .com tag?

Thanks.

Diane

See thread...

Open letter to me@libertytree.com

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 002Uiv

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Come on floks, we get one of these every few months.

If you don't want to use your "real" e-mail, get a free account at Yahoo, Hotmail, or one of the dozens of other free sites.

Sure, they ask you for a name. Mine is Ytwok Board. I think Yahoo asks for a zip code, but you enter NO OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION when you open the account.

Give us all a break. When you use a fake address, we ALL get those "not delivered" messages in our mailbox, when answering one of your threads.

There is no excuse for not using a "real" address. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Diane and Chuck,

Thanks for your help. I'll eliminate the ".com" and just so you know, I'll be taking this opportunity to use my middle name, Rebekah, somewhere in my new fake addy.

-- eve (123@4567.com), February 05, 2000.

Sysman,

I appreciate the info; I'll consider it.

-- eve (rebekah@123.4567), February 05, 2000.

Sysman (or anyone),

While we're on the subject, which internet free e-mail site do you like best, and why? And do you have the URLs? I'm seriously thinking of giving this a shot.

Thanks,

-- eve (rebekah@123.4567), February 05, 2000.

Sorry, I wrote "site"; I meant "service".

-- eve (rebekah@123.4567), February 05, 2000.

Hi eve,

I like Yahoo, and use it for my "regular" account as well. I like it because I can easily check my mail from any computer on the net, but that's also true for any "web based" e-mail account. I've used it for about 2 years now, and have only had 1 problem, that was resolved the next morning.

I have heard some "grumblings" from Hotmail users, as far as service, so perhaps one of them will post here.

They do have some limits, like a 3 meg mailbox, and a 500K limit on attachments to your sent mail, so you may still want to keep your "normal" account for things like this.

But for a "message box" I like it. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

PS - Here's a link to the Yahoo Signup/Login page: <:)=

Welcome to Yahoo! Mail

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Thanks, Sysman...sounds cool. By the way -- those two lines under your grin -- are those legs or a beard? Or what? :)

-- eve (123@4567.com), February 05, 2000.

sorry again...I used my old ".com" last post. Old habits die hard, I guess.

-- eve (rebekah@123.4567), February 05, 2000.

Also, don't use .net, .gov, .edu, and all the rest of the dots. Best thing to do is just use more than three letters after the dot.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 05, 2000.

Diane And Sysman,

I took your advice and went out and got an anonymous email address over at Hotmail (Before I saw Sysmans posting). And you were right, it was very EASY to do!

I had recently changed my fake address from "its@bubble.com" to "its@bubble.con" because I checked one day out of curiosity and found out that there was a "bubble.com" website and realized I was spamming them with my postings.

Lastly I have changed my online name to "Zdude" from "Zguy" because I was having trouble getting my account started at Hotmail under the name Zguy. (Popular Name)

Zdude(Formerly Zguy)

P.S. Thanks Diane,Sysman and all other Sysops for the "GREAT JOB" you do holding this "Oftentimes Unruly" BB together. Of all the BB's I frequent TB2000 is my "Far and Away" Favorite!!!

-- Zdude (Formerly Zguy) (zdude777@hotmail.com), February 05, 2000.

Zdude,

You can leave the thanks with Diane, Chuck & co. I'm just a "regular" here, but I was a co-sysop on a rather busy local BBS, before the internet became popular. I just put my $.02 in, when I think it may help. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Besides AOL I also have email at Yahoo, Hotmail and Juno. I get a little bit of spam at Hotmail and AOL. None so far at Yahoo or Juno. I would be interested in knowing what others think of Juno. I haven't had it very long and if all goes well with Juno, I will drop AOL.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), February 05, 2000.

Sysman,

Would that be the BOSS bbs?

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.MON), February 05, 2000.

PS eve,

That's my beard, but it doesn't look very good it this font. :)

The "<" is my, used to be, long hair. I'm not a POINTY HAIRED MANAGER!

<:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Hi TECH (hey, I like that!),

No, it wasn't BOSS. There were thousands of local BBSes in the days just before the net "hit" the common man. Those were fun days.

We made up fliers, and stuck them everywhere! We had a few CD's of "downloadable" files, and a bunch of (mostly DOS type) games that could be played on-line. We had a "league" with several of the other local BBSes, and a few games that supported BBS vs BBS play. You know, send all our guys after their big guy type stuff.

We had access to a few national "message boards" but these were far different than this forum for example. Messages were "exchanged" when we did the "mail run." When we started, we only did it two times a day, but we were soon doing it every hour, by popular demand! And it was a LONG-DISTANCE call!

We also had "local chat" similar to this forum, but only for other people that were "on-line" with us at the moment. Nobody was much interested in this, except the local teen-agers. Everyone wanted to be on the "national" board.

We charged $23.99 a year, only 2 bucks a month. We did have several hundred users in the end, when the net struck. We never did make any money though. It was always "another few modems (and phone lines)" or "another server" or "another forum (and another long distance call)" that spent the cash as fast as we could make it.

But we did have a whole bunch of fun!

Aren't you a NJ guy TECH32? If you know Sysman, then you know my old BBS. I've had the same handle for years, no matter where I've been! <:-)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Sysman,

I lived on the BOSS back then because of it's strong Clipper forums and didn't venture onto other BBSs. I do know how they worked though (LD calls, message transfers from FIDO IIRC, etc). Non-stop busy signals where the worst!

Yes, it was a very different world back then. Just before I graduated college I bought a new modem for my then state of the art Apple IIE. I splurged and got the new Hayes 1200bps which almost no one was using at the time (300bps was the standard). One of my profs asked me why I wasted my money on 1200bps when 300bps was "more than most people would ever need". I just smiled and told him "I'm not most people..."

Remember DIP switches and AT sequences and Kermit and ARC files?

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.MON), February 05, 2000.

I've still got a copy of ARC.EXE in my archive, dated 3/21/1988. Haven't used it in about 5 years! <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Hi, Sysman,

Thanks to your help, it's a done deal! "Yahoo"!

BTW, your "hair"'s ok, and the "ZZ-Top" beard does look pretty cool -- but now I'm wondering what another font could do for you...oh, the possibilities... :)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

Sysman,

There's a small underscore between the "eve" and "rebekah" -- I thought I typed it in, but it didn't show up in the post. Let's see if it shows up this time...

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

TECH32,

I believe it was 320 baud modems, 'cause I had one... on my Compaq luggable. (Never could get the 128K Mac to be functional for use other than holding yellow stickies). Remember CPM?

*Grin*

Or CrossTalk? Those were the daze. Had free passords on Compuserve, The Source, Dow Jones News Retrievel, Dialog and BRS. Fun on-line times, n'est-ce pas? Never played much in the BBS world, was always into researching information. Helped beta-test the Genie system though.

;-D

Eve,

It's there. I'm also rather partial to Yahoo too.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

I've read that the tilde (~) symbol will invalidate any e-mail address -- if so just use one in your creative fiction ~ ~ and you're home free.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), February 06, 2000.

Diane,

They were 300bps. 320 may have been the model number of you modem.

Remember CPM?

Yep! I had an Applied Engineering CP/M card for my IIE. I used it to run Pascal and was the only kid in school who didn't have to spend hours and hours in the computer lab just to get his homework done (grin).

Or CrossTalk? Those were the daze. Had free passords on Compuserve, The Source, Dow Jones News Retrievel, Dialog and BRS. Fun on-line times, n'est-ce pas?

You bet! I still have a copy of Crosstalk somewhere. I also lived on the $ource until CI$ took over. I remember paying (or rather my employer paid) 60 cents a minute for me to go online. All these newbies don't know how easy they have it now...

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.MON), February 06, 2000.

Haven't used Crosstalk, since Carbon Copy came out. It did "file transfers" plus "remote control"... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

duh

which dot.com should i use?

duh

how many people do ya think have used "sysman" as their handle?

duh

dozens? hundreds? thousands?

duh

and don't use .us or .to or .tv or .anything unless you know what the .dot means

duh

-- duh (duh@duh.duh), February 06, 2000.

I don't know "duh". I've been on the net for a few years now, and was pretty active on the BBS scene for a few years before that. As part of my "ex-sysop" duties, I would visit other boards, to see what was "hot" at the time. I would chat with other "sysops". I probably visited over 1,000 boards in those days.

In all these years, I have yet to meet another "Sysman". Perhaps you would like to introduce me to one? Besides, TECH32 is a NJ guy, also my home. It was a "small world" back then. One never knows, perhaps we did "meet" in the past.

But this thread is about forging e-mail addresses. I guess you're save there, .duh, but fake addresses are still a pain in our in-box.

But I guess you know that now, don't you...

Tick... Tock... <:00= ...

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.