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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: USR Sysop Deal Change
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.184522.28373@qualcomm.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 18:45:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jun15.191309.26172@unlinfo.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Life...) writes:
>zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>
>>I think User log would mean a list of people who called and their
>>names, addresses, etc.  Everything but the password.
>
>Then I think I still have problems.  Running a handle-based system, I
>don't give out the real names of my users, their phone numbers, and I
>don't even ask for addresses, other than an optional Internet/BITNET
>address.  I don't give out personal user information, and wouldn't call a
>system which did.

No, no, no, they just want a caller log...  Name, date, and time of call, just
so they can see how active your system is.  They're checking to make sure that
this isn't a system you put up two days ago to get a cheap modem.  They know
that addresses and phone numbers are confidential, and that most sysops
promised that they would keep those private.

Hell, my BBS doesn't even _keep_ addresses.

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