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Skriven 2004-12-12 01:34:10 av Greg Sears (1:153/307)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Coble
Ärende: X-mas
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G-day Dave,

You being one of the longest attendants in BBsing that I've known,
this should seem a great story from the OLD days! #[;-)]

   A while back, one of our users started a discussion about all the
different types of users that show up on a BBS.  This inspired us to
challenge everyone on The Stargate BBS to make up a Garbage Pail Kid
type name and a short summery of the Kid's character.  If you are under
the age of 20, or have school aged kids at home, you know what we are
talking about....if you fall between the cracks, Garbage Pail Kids are
tasteless little cards that can be collected that feature unfortunates
such as Acne Andy.  Well, Stargate never pretended to be a tasteful
board and therefore we are proud to present our collection of....



                                Modem Pail Kids

Anxious Albert- This user leaves a message to a fellow user on the BBS.
Trouble is, he's so anxious to see if he received a response, he calls
back ever 15 minutes to check, thus preventing his buddy (or anyone
else) from logging on and answering him.

Baud-Rate Bert- This user tries to call a 300 baud BBS at 1200 baud and
waits for the SysOp to pick up the phone after it rings....then he
HANGS UP!


Buffer Bob- This user leaves his buffer open constantly in case
something important comes on the screen.  Of course when something
important does appear, they belatedly realize that the buffer filled up
a long time ago.

BBS Bill- This is a SysOp who logs onto a BBS for the sole purpose of
advertising his own BBS.

Big-Brother Brent- This SysOp gets his kicks by watching users quietly
while they go about their business on the board.  Suddenly, while the
user least expects it, he suddenly makes his presence known, and scares
the user to death.


Blank Betty- A user who leaves a message like this:
................................................and then wonders why she
never gets any responses.


Cautious Charlie- To keep his password secure, this user changes his
password frequently.  Unfortunately, he has a hard time logging on and
doing anything because he can never remember what his current password
is supposed to be.

Chatting Carl- This user insists on trying to chat, even when a message
announces that the SysOp isn't around.

Chatty Patty- This user calls the SysOp to chat just to see if he is a
Big Brother Brent and has been watching her session.

Cheap Curtis- This user looks through every computer magazine to find
the cheapest price for his hardware.  He eventually finds out that when
it arrives, it needs so many additional parts that by the time he gets
it all together, he's spent far more than he would of if he had bought
it retail in the first place.


Depressed Dan- This user has spent $150 calling long distance to an out
of state BBS to download a program he has been searching everywhere
for.  Thoughts of suicide arise, when upon trying the program, he finds
that it doesn't work at all.

Depressed Dan Jr.- Follows in his fathers footsteps, but gets upset
when he spends 90 minutes uploading a complicated file, and the SysOp
wipes it.  These people are always considered to have suicidal
tendencies.

Dippy David- This user logs on but doesn't bother to learn the system
or read any directions and subsequently leaves a lot of /s and .s at
the end of his messages.

Downloading Derek- One of those users who keep downloading files from a
board that doesn't support his computer because he wants the file to
work so bad.

Eggbert Excuse- This user spends plenty of time explaining why he never
leaves any messages on the board, but explanations are the only things
he ever manages to leave.

Feedback Freddy- A user who leaves several rambling messages in
feedback on different subjects and wonders why the SysOp never answers
him.

Frantic Fred- A user who constantly checks his time left on the board
so he won't be suddenly logged off, but never stays more than 5 minutes
at a time anyway.

Fryin' Brian- This user is so impatient to get his computer, modem or
whatever hooked up so that he can being to use it that he doesn't
bother reading the directions cause it takes up too much time.  Of
course they end up shorting out everything with a resultant 2-6 wait to
get whatever they fried fixed.

Game Freak Gus- This user doesn't do anything but dial BBSs to get
games, and has no use at all for boards like TFC.

Gullible Gilligan- A user that buys a $8000 dollar computer only to
find that the company that makes the software for it went out of
business 6 months ago.

Hacker Harry- A hacker who breaks into places like a library computer
system and acts like its the greatest accomplishment in the world.

Idiot Irv- A user who posts the same message twice because they wanna
be sure that everyone has seen it.

Late-Night Lenny- A user who likes to call boards very late (yawn) at
night, starts to download something and then decides that they are too
tired to wait and just hangs up leaving the board tied up the rest of
the night.  These people usually use 250 baud or less.

Log Off Larry- A user who thinks logging off a BBS means to hang up
whenever they have had enough.

Many Board Mike- A users who is a member of so many boards that he
leaves a message to a user on a local board who in actually uses a
board in Florida.

Mess-Up Morris- A user who makes manis mestaks whil typying mussages und
blams it on littl creatchers sucking data out of fone linez.

Message Manny- A (sometimes) new user who calls a BBS and leaves
pitiful messages begging people to leave him mail.

Never Call Norman- A user who calls a BBS just often enough to discover
that he's been deleted for lack of participation.

New User Ned- Someone that doesn't know anything about running a BBS
yet tries to start one of his own.  Most of the time he runs it with
one floppy disk and calls it the best board around.

Nonsense Nick- A user who writes tons of long complicated messages that
no one can figure out.

Novice Nancy- This user selects expert mode and then always lists the
menu anyway.

Once-in-a-While Willy- This user calls a bit more often than Never Call
Norman, but only calls to make sure he is still listed on the user log.

Pain-in-the-Ass Pete- This user reads the messages on the board and
takes the Devil's Advocate side to whatever is current on the board,
being generally obnoxious and boring.

Paranoid Polly- This SysOp wants a copy of your birth certificate and
driver's license before she will let you on the board.

Paul Promise- The one who leaves messages everywhere about his
intentions about putting up a MAJOR BBS, then never gets around to it
because his parents never bought him a modem for Christmas.

Password Pete- The user who changes his password every time he logs
onto a board because he is afraid that his little brother will use it
to log on and ruin his reputation so he'll never be accepted on another
board for the rest of his life.

Perfect Paul- this user insists on leaving messages without any
mistakes at all, and when he does happen to make one, he just aborts it
rather than bother with the editor.

Phantom Phred- A user who calls every day, but never posts anything.

Phoney Phil- Not a real name, just a handle of a user trying to
increase his daily time allotment on a BBS by calling back as different
users.  He often wonders why no one else calls the board except him.

Phreaking Phreddie- This modem hacker who breaks into a banks computer
system...and then wonders why the FBI is concerned.

Purging Paul- When asked by the system is he wishes to delete or kill a
message after he's read it, this user is quick to answer YES, only to
get a sinking feeling moments later that the message contained
important information that he thought he had memorized, but hadn't.

RBBS Rob- A person who logs onto a board and goes to expert mode right
away using RBBS commands, even on non RBBSs.  He often leaves mail to
the SysOp complaining that the commands don't seem to be working.

Re-register Ralph- Like Never Call Norman, this user registers on a
BBS, but after a while is deleted because he never calls back.  Then he
finally gets around to calling the board, finds he's been deleted, and
re-registers on the board, and once again drops out of sight.

Responding Ronald- This idiot posts responses to messages he saw on
another board.

RETURNing Randy- This user constantly hits RETURN while the board is
loading a program and then wonders why they keep seeing

COMMAND?

COMMAND?

COMMAND?




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