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From: Steven.Furber@legion.fidonet.org (Steven Furber)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: More on birthday information. (RE: Re: BBS Birthdays.)
Message-ID: <277.25B28846@legion.fidonet.org>
Date: 15 Jan 90 21:01:58 GMT
Organization: Legion EchoBarf Cafe BBS
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 > You don't need to know if I was born on May 1 to know I'm over 18.

No, but you do need to know what year the person was born in. If someone 
calls up my BBS and leaves me their MM-DD-YY birthday instead of a simple age, 
my BBS will know how old they are 90 days from now, 120 days from now, or 
whenever I want to look. I know with as much certainty and truth as the 
original data is how old someone is. In a court of law, the DD-MM-YY is what 
matters, not a simple age.

Your choice to not call back BBSes that ask for ages is fine-- it's a choice. 
You may have all the right answers, but your reasoning is on par with racism. 
Have you ever stopped to think that some of us ask your age to protect you 
from going to jail for posting pornography in an area where someone that is 
not 18 or older can see it?

Quite often these little annoyances you have to suffer once when entering your 
information into a BBS database is for your own protection. I really don't 
care what the real name is, the phone number, or where people live. All I care 
about is that they have a name to be addressed by, and an age so I can protect 
my other users-- and myself.

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Legion EchoBarf Cafe/Pet Cemetary BBS
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