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Re:Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board Syste... by wott on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:09PM (#17536794)
It probably depended on the kind of BBS and the era too: in my country, on Fidonet almost everyone used his real name.
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Re:Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board Syste... by zorked on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:31PM (#17536909)
IIRC Fidonet had a real name policy.
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Re:Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board Syste... by wott on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:25PM (#17537169)
A bit of searching seems to indicate that it depended on each Echomail conference (== newsgroup); they had flags, and one possible flag was "real names" (== mandatory real name). Most of the echomails seem to bear it.

(I could not find the document describing those flags, but they appear in echolists.)

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