bryanb wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:37 pm Are you still planning to bring back the original JC as a telnet BBS eventually? It'd be really cool to browse the old messages and file bases. I'll be sure to check out Den of Iniquity soon, but please tell me it isn't a stock Synchronet board. Those things are the bane of my online BBSing existence. Nothing against Synchronet as software -- it's great -- but way too many people set up Synchronet boards as a project and proceed to do absolutely nothing with them. There's just board after board that looks exactly the same and has absolutely nothing going on -- no messages, no files, no games. Synchronet by default also asks for way too much information from new users. I basically stopped visiting new BBSes when I couldn't answer the question, "Why did I just give some random French guy the ability to dox me anytime he wants?" I think I need to create a synthetic identity just to BBS with. My fake birthday is probably going to be July 7th, 1977 (7-7-77 would be easy to remember), but if anyone has some fake names, locations, addresses, and phone numbers to suggest I'd love to hear them.

The main problem with modern BBSing isn't that BBSes don't still serve a purpose and aren't still fun. They're great at what they do and are still totally fun to use. No, the problem is actually that everyone wants to be a Sysop and no one wants to be a user. I think that's kind of what happened here too...didn't Jonsey start his telnet BBS first only to have Pinback and Flack proceed to start their own? So you went from a situation where there was one BBS, one Sysop, and two potential users to one where there were three BBSes, three Sysops, and no users. Sysops can be users on other BBSes to be sure, but you know deep down they'd always rather be on their own BBS and running the show. Unfortunately, a BBS that doesn't have active users has empty forums, empty chats, and no one playing door games which is pretty sad and all too typical. By the way, we should totally start a Trotting Krips telnet BBS. We could have text adventures as door games and text adventures as downloads and text adventures as topics for discussion on the forums. No way that'd be another virtual ghost town, right?

bryanb wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:15 pm When you write to a prisoner, I don't think you generally include a cell number, but it would be awesome to put a cell number on the apartment number address line during the BBS signup process.

Flack wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:00 am A few fictitious addresses to choose from (via Quora). (I removed some of the instantly recognizable ones. Nobody's going to believe 1313 Mockingbird Lane.)

Tdarcos wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:38 am Someone once suggested "Dog Natas", as a potential login name asi it is "Saran God" spelled backward. Especially appropriate for Christian-themed BBSs.

Tdarcos wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:38 am But if you go to Wikipedia's List of United States federal prisons you'll see a list of dozens of prisons, Federal Correction Centers, and Federal Camps (the names define security levels, randing from ADX's (the equivalent of a SuperMax prison, reserver for the worst of the worst), all the at down to very minimum security facilities without even fencing.

Either the Wikipedia articles for each facility have their address or the Bureau of Prisons web page for that facility does. There's a federal prison or similar facility in almost every state. But not always. When Lenny Bruce got busted on an obscenity charge sometime in the '50s in the Territory of Hawaii, he was sent to serve out his sentence at the FCI at Terminal Island, near Long Beach/San Pedro in California.

Jizaboz wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:19 pm No one cares about Butner so you should be good.

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:24 pm Well you'll love this one, as it's a real address, and you can't get any lower than this.

Zero King Street, Alexandria VA 22314

It's the address of the Robinson Terminal, where the Washington Post (which owns it) gets their newsprint delivered when shipped.by barge up the Potomac River.

bryanb wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:04 pm I suppose 666 Park Avenue and 1599 Pennsylvania Avenue would be too obviously fake for addresses.

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:15 pm I'd suggest 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613, but anyone who's seen The Blues Brothers knows that's Wrigley field.

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:15 pm Gary Settle
1426-A Columbia Pike, Arlington, Virginia 22204
Telephone: 703-845-6300
(This is the name of the Superintendemt of the State Police (whose office is in Richmond), the address and phone number are the Arlington office for State Police Division 7.)

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:15 pm Kathleen Sawyer
4700 Bureau Rd S, Terre Haute, IN 47802, 812-244-4400
3000 Old 75 Hwy, Butner, NC 27509, 919-575-5000
3600 Guard Rd, Lompoc, CA 93436, 805-736-4154
(Kathleen Sawyer is the head of the Bureau of Prisons, and these are federal prisons in those cities.)

Flack wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:29 am I typically use my sister's birth date, which is close to mine and a real date so it's easy to remember.

Flack wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:29 am As for addresses, I tend to use 9001 NW 23rd street in Oklahoma City. As a kid, I remember the Blues Brothers used 1060 W. Addison as their address (which is actually Wrigley Field). I wanted to come up with something similar that I could remember, and so 9001 NW 23rd is right in the middle of a lake near my old house. It has an added bit of fun -- if you're actually in the area and enter that address into your GPS, it will continually route you back and forth around the lake forever. I'm sure many pizza delivery drivers have figured that out already.

Flack wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:29 am When I realized that was the case and what I had done, I shut mine down. I'm not a great user, but I'm a worse sysop.

Tdarcos wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:15 pm I'd suggest 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613, but anyone who's seen The Blues Brothers knows that's Wrigley field.

bryanb wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:37 pm but if anyone has some fake names, locations, addresses, and phone numbers to suggest I'd love to hear them.

bryanb wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:37 pmI think I need to create a synthetic identity just to BBS with. My fake birthday is probably going to be July 7th, 1977 (7-7-77 would be easy to remember), but if anyone has some fake names, locations, addresses, and phone numbers to suggest I'd love to hear them.

bryanb wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:37 pmI think that's kind of what happened here too...didn't Jonsey start his telnet BBS first only to have Pinback and Flack proceed to start their own? So you went from a situation where there was one BBS, one Sysop, and two potential users to one where there were three BBSes, three Sysops, and no users.