Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!gorn!tachyon
From: tachyon@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (tane' tachyon)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Age and granting access
Message-ID: <1060@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 17 Jan 90 15:43:26 GMT
References: <9544.1051.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Reply-To: tachyon@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (tane' tachyon)
Organization: The Planet Gorn
Lines: 27

In article <9544.1051.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:
>
> 
>     Someone I know around here ran into a problem with a minor
>   breaching security on his BBS. (it is a over 21 BBS). The
>   best solution that we came up with (mine actually, so I am
>   biased) that did not really violate privacy, was to require
>   that if a user really want's access, to have them simply submit
>   a piece of paper with name, signature and age, and a notary
>   public stamp. Getting a notary public's stamp is not difficult.
>   (heck, we have, err, had two in my office alone.)
>      I don't know if he did this, but anyone have comments?
>      Any notary public's out there? Could you stamp a piece of
>   paper this way?


I'm sorry, but all this stuff is starting to sound like one of
those silly "secret clubs" set up by little kids -- the kind
where the first meeting is taken up with making a list of
bizarre and arbitrary rules.  Perhaps you have to say the club
poem every time you come into the clubhouse.  Perhaps you
have to swear never to speak to anyone from a rival club.
Perhaps you have to wear a funny hat.

And yes, I am also a sysop, so don't anyone give me that "You're
not a sysop, you don't know what a jungle it is out there!!!!"
stuff!