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Re:Telnet BBS Guide by BeetleB on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:22PM (#29298910)
Quite different from the BBS Circles I was part of. They required you to use your real name on the forums ("conferences"). If a BBS was discovered not to enforce that rule, they would be kicked out of the network.

It was very civil.

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Re:Telnet BBS Guide by narrator on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:48PM (#29311936)
Sure, there were those boards, but they were mainly for tech support or associated with a school or something like that. The boards I hung out on had far more relaxed rules.
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Re:Telnet BBS Guide by BeetleB on Monday November 22, 2021 @06:24PM (#29312816)
No - they were just general purpose boards. They just had strict rules on behavior (well behaved flame wars, etc). I was on them before I was on USENET, and in comparison, USENET really sucked with its relative lawlessness.

The "enforce the rules or your whole BBS will be sanctioned" was extremely effective in producing a civil (but not boring) environment.

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