From: time.warrior@THRWHITE.remove-w73-this   
      
     To: rhythmnp   
     To: rhythmnp@aol.comSTOPSPAM (RhythmNp)   
     Re: Re: WHY I ASK FOR REAL INFO ON MY BBS!   
     By: rhythmnp@aol.comSTOPSPAM (RhythmNp) to alt.bbs.allsysop on Wed Dec 24   
   2003 07:17 pm   
      
    > > I have just one beef with your rule.  I have had many experiences with   
    > > sysops who have misused the user records. One cosysop of a BBS I was   
    > > on long ago, used the BBS user records as his personal phonebook   
    > > when the BBS went down. I never got any peace because he'd call me   
    > > all the time.   
      
    > I've had similar problems, especially as a door author.  It's rather irritat   
    > to be getting 4am phone calls on my cell phone from a random sysop with a   
    > DoorMUD question, who got my number since I left it when making an account o   
    > his board 6 months prior...   
      
    > Don't get me wrong, I'm all about providing sysop support, but via *e-mail*   
    > please... I do not provide 24/7 voice support and never will, it just isn't   
    > practical.   
      
    > Needless to say, I never leave my real phone number at all anymore.  Sometim   
    > can't even use my real name... I get accused of cheating if I ever enter my   
    > doors (even though I'm just doing it to obtain feedback/suggestions from oth   
    > on-line players in the game).  Also sometimes get threats from other   
    > players/sysops if I play *other* doors (I've actually gotten mails like "I   
    > can't believe you killed me in TradeWars, I'm going to boycott/delete your   
    > doors!"... sigh)   
      
   Oh damn thats lame!   
      
   First off, if i ever called a door author voice, it would be durring the day,   
   and for something like "I found out if you hit so and such a button it drops   
   to the sysops dos and you can format their hard drive.... might wanna fix   
   that quick!" lol   
      
   But i know how you feel. Being the computer tech of all my friends, i end up   
   taking alot of shit. I fix my friends computers for free, but i had one   
   friend who demanded tech support at 3am and when i said "No, i'm going to   
   bed, its 3am" he didn't talk to me for 2 years (can't say that was a major   
   loss either) ... funny thing is, that same friend today, called me xmas   
   morning to wish me a merry xmas, thank me for a bunch of stuff i did for him,   
   then tell me that he's not talking to half his family or any of his friends   
   anymore, which includes me. But thats ok, dude neglected to realize one thing   
   he forgot to do when he fucked the friendship over. He has a WD40 and a WD80   
   here at my house :-) If you think he's getting those drives back, think again   
   -)   
      
   I also get certian friends that get pissed off if i'm too busy to help them   
   at that second. Sometimes i'll have 15 messages on my answering machine from   
   the same person crying for help and bitching that i aint there all within the   
   span of 8 hours.   
      
   Then of course, theres the friend i'm helping via the phone, when friend #2   
   ends up on call waiting with a computer problem, and when i explain that i am   
   currently on the other line helping another friend, they say "fuck them help   
   me now!"   
      
   I personally think i'm going to start CHARGING people who do that lol   
      
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