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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