³ Actually, I'm glad they don't fetch much attention. Part of   
   ³ the reason this subject interests me, and why I changed the   
   ³ subject line, is the question of BBS security. I am very   
   ³ surprised at how many BBSs require enough information to   
   ³ get a credit card in your name, even just to find out what   
   ³ they have to offer. Some of that, such as phone number,   
   ³ is a hangover from the old days when many didn't have   
   ³ call display and had to pay for lines to keep the board up.   
   ³ Nowadays, I think it is highly inapropriate to be asking   
   ³ for someone's sex and phone number. I wonder what's up   
   ³ with that. It seems to me that a BBS is a great phishing   
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   I have tried to change the questions on my board as best as I can so as not   
   to collect too much "personal" info.  However, also being an "old fart,"   
   BBS-wise, I am still of the notion that I would like to know a little about   
   a person, and someone who is intent to be up to no good on a BBS usually   
   will give up before answering too many questions.  I see it as a way to   
   weed those folks out.   
       
   Unless you are running an open-source package, and know how to program in   
   the language it is written in, it can be real hard to stop the software   
   from asking some questions, though.   
       
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