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: BBS Birthdays. Message-ID: <1069@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Date: 18 Jan 90 23:45:50 GMT References: <33661.25b18c71@kontu.utu.fi> <6851@wpi.wpi.edu> <1061@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <1066@gorn.santa-cruz. Reply-To: tachyon@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (tane' tachyon) Organization: The Planet Gorn Lines: 17 In article <1066@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> keeper@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Ron O'Dell) writes: >You, on the other hand, are sneaky... > >You have the Birthdays section where people can post their birthday in they >want to, thinking that there won't be much of a fuss... > >...then... > >Everyone who logs in on that day is informed of this person's birthday! > (Yeah, I KNOW I should answer this in mail instead of chatting up the newsgroup, but ...) No, I don't think that is sneaky. For one thing, by the time they have found the birthdays section, most users have probably seen that birthdays get announced. Very few people post them there anyway -- I get more birthdays by people sending them to me in mail asking that they be announced.