Re: bbsing
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Wed Apr 01 2015 21:28:42

  Thank you for catching me up with the repost on here.  Not sure how I missed
this one...

 NB> I've never really seen the point of using the alias... unless one was
 NB> thinking it would shield some bogus persona...  But then I've almost
 NB> always been posting in echos where one's real name was important, like
 NB> genealogy, where the whole point was to connect with real people who
 NB> might be your distant cousins, working on the same ancestral lines as
 NB> you are...  ;)   And it's better to say only things you don't mind being
 NB> remembered, whether in face-to-face or in some electronic media... or
 NB> even old fashioned snail mail..  :)   Of course, since I'm in an
 NB> environment where sometimes people are indeed using aliases (some areas
 NB> more than others), I've also honed some skills in figuring out who was
 NB> who anyway...  :)

  Well when I was younger for a little while, when I first got into things in
my early teens, I thought that maybe it was a shield.  Like I've alluded to
before, I had a little naivety on my side.  When that started to crumble, it
was more like a badge of honor..  I'd been a [very briefly] published hacker
for a bit, and I'd gained a little bit of repute with some of the alias-only
BBS communities that I'd been a member of.  It was the fantasy of being an
alias-known hacker that kept me going in it for so long.  Not sure why I even
still really have it, now, but I don't really bother to keep it separate... 
Except for a limited extent against my professional persona...  Though anybody
who knows enough to delve into fido and the other nets would learn right quick
where the pair-up is at.
  I've never been too terribly good at matching text styles to posters, at
least when they're trying to be dubious about it.  Never been looking in
networks where I was looking for IRL people, either.  I guess I've always
thought (and found) that the aliased people I knew would give me their names
one day if they decided I was decent enough to meet up.  Lo and behold I have
found quite a few that way, and some of them have, indeed, become my best
friends and a few that've gone above and beyond have helped me in some of the
most desperate stretches of my life before.

 NB> If you do check out the cooking echos (both Fidonet), be sure to stick
 NB> around for a while to get answers for your questions... I've seen too
 NB> many dip a toe in and not stay long enough to see that people have
 NB> answered them... it might take a few days, like other Fido echos... ;)
 NB> But you can ask for specific types of recipes... and expect that you may
 NB> well be inundated, so be prepared to capture them for use later... :)

  Oh yeah I understand the traffic flow with the nets these days.  ;)  I
haven't posted much of anything yet in there, but I will as soon as the kitchen
is clean and I've got some time to think something through.  I guess I've got
plenty to write about (apart from the actual trademarked recipies) working at
the place that I'm at right now, if nothing else.

 NB> The subjects there are quite diverse... from Old Time Radio (OTR) to
 NB> trains (model and actual), to what things were like when we were growing
 NB> up, to ham radio, to weather, and back and forth and all around again...
 NB> some health issues, some small talk... It's like sitting around the old
 NB> pot-bellied stove on our cracker barrels... ;)  And cooking is like
 NB> pulling up a chair to the kitchen table to talk about food and cooking
 NB> and all...  ;)

  I've noticed that.  I very much like it.  :)  Kind of makes me jones a bit
for some campfire time.  That's coming up very soon here, though.  I hope to
have a trip to the trees under my belt before April is through here.

 NB> I don't remember seeing you there (certainly not recently)... maybe it
 NB> was a weather echo for one of the other nets...?  I was only mentioning
 NB> Fidonet echos... since those are the ones I know the best.  Dovenet I
 NB> lurked in from time to time in the past, but haven't even done that
 NB> recently at all... One of the bbses I use regularly happens to have a
 NB> few nets available, and I've been lurking in the general chat echoes for
 NB> those, just to get an idea of what they are like, but haven't seen any
 NB> reason to join in...

  You know now that I think about it I think that solar stuff was posted in
BAMA or Fringe Theory talk or whatever it's called.  I've posted some solar
stuff in the HAM radio echoes, too, where the solar weather updates go, but
I've not received a whole lot of talk back on those areas yet.  I lurk in many
areas where I'll jump in if given an appropriate opportunity.  ;)

 NB> I moved the rest of the message to a new one, as this was getting pretty
 NB> large...  ;)

  Gotcha.  This one turned out to be the perfect size for me to respond to
quick before I need to be in the shower and off to work.  More will follow.  :)
  Best wishes!

  -D
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