³ Not neccessarily true.  If I feel like a SysOp is being too intrusive and   
   ³ asking me for too much personal information I'll hang up.  And I'm a   
   ³ goody-two-shoes.   
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   Your loss.  Like I said, it ain't always the sysop.  Some of these BBS   
   systems have that stuff hard-coded.  If it ain't open source, or isn't in a   
   language you program in, you can't turn it off.   
       
   For example, I changed one of the questions from asking for a street address   
   to asking where the user heard about the BBS.  I was able to change the screen   
   that the user is shown with that question, and the prompt itself, but the   
   software still requires some sort of answer (and it has to be at least 2   
   words).   
       
   OTOH, I can't change the phone number question because it is expecting a   
   number in a certain format.  All I can do is tell the user that they can   
   enter all 5's and hope they can read.   
       
   But I at least want to know where they are calling from (city & state or   
   country).  I figure I have a right to know that.   
       
   You have to remember, when you are on a BBS, you are on someone else's   
   PERSONAL computer.  It ain't at all like the rest of the Internet.  Because   
   you are logged onto their personal machine, they may feel they have a right   
   to know something about the person that is on there.   
       
   You're thinking "I don't want to tell them too much or they might do   
   something bad to me," but you have to remember, they are trusting you with   
   their equipment.  They may not want to trust just anyone, no matter how   
   hacker-proof they may think their software/setup is.   
       
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