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   PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/eb8114bd1 Jan 11 2022 MSC 1928   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/eb8114bd1 Jan 11 2022 MSC 1928   
   BBSID: TBOLT   
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   Alan,   
      
    AI> Mystic has a built in twit filter as do many readers like golded. You   
    AI> can use it to simply skip messages from people you'd rather not read.   
      
     Most BBS packages have one. Since 1992, I've run GT Power, Virtual Advanced    
   (VADV32), and now Synchronet. They have a "trashcan file" where you can put    
   things like obscenities (I've known individuals who would rather logon with    
   vulgar names than their real name), and if they try to provide that name,    
   they're told "it's in use, or not allowed" (more likely the latter if it's    
   vulgar).   
      
     The original author of GT Power, Paul Meiners, wrote in the documentation   
   (which he lamented that he wrote terrible documentation), that "this file   
   will test your creativity!! ".    
      
     I've known women who had such a filthy mouth that they'd make a sailor   
   blush. To me, profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself   
   forcibly. My late Mom and late wife had enough of a command of the English   
   language that they didn't have to resort to such filthy talk...and my late   
   wife could tell someone off, and not use one word of profanity. It's like   
   the saying "If you can't say something nice, don't say it all". However,   
   some people in the world aren't happy, unless they make other folks lives   
   miserable.   
      
     My wife and I had the privilege to meet Sean several years ago, a few   
   years before she died...and I've never had a problem with him. He's also   
   a fellow amateur radio operator...so we have that and our BBS's in common.   
   And, his CHEEPWARE software has some neat stuff with it...my programming   
   ends at setting the clock on the microwave oven...I guess I'll starve to   
   death if I forget how to do that.    
      
    AI> If no twit filter is available you can simply use the next key.   
      
     Yep....the  key gets used regularly.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... I'm not deaf...I'm ignoring you.   
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