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spatchThe end of the ISCABBS, once the largest telnet-based BBS on the entire Interbutt, appears to be nigh. The story, which I'm quoting third-hand from a post on another telnet-based BBS, started when a sysop started deleting, er, salacious posts in a public forum.
The rest of the users were told to take their sex talk to the forum called Kama Sutra>, which is age verified. Unfortunately, very few users on ISCA are age verified, and none of the users in quesiton were. More than willing to play along, the users sought age verification, but the system, which requires snail mailing a photocopy of picture ID with birthdate, is defunct. Not to mention the IDs of all those who had been verified were lost years ago. This left the userbase in an impossible place, and the Sysops unwilling to do anything about it without the permission of the actual Iowa Student Computer Association, which hasn't had a meeting in over a year and only has two or three allegedly active members. Some upset users have attempted to contact the University of Iowa, which has only led to UofI being made aware of a machine on their network that they didn't even know existed anymore. It's the Hindenburg alright, and everyone on board is smoking cigarettes. ISCA has been down since 8am Central Time for unknown reasons...This ending, which involves sysop powers, "sexxxy chat", bureaucratic mumbledy-peg and an administration which has forgotten about it, is more than fitting. I'm sure I'll be able to wax rhapsodic on the whole ISCA experience later on tonight, but for now, I'm just laffin.
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Date: 2006-07-26 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 07:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 07:41 pm (UTC)But honestly, after the "We lost the source, guys" and other things, this kind of ending is not only unsurprising, but completely plausible.
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Date: 2006-07-26 07:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 07:44 pm (UTC)I hope it's really gone. It seems kind of wrong that it still existed. Hrm.
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Date: 2006-07-26 07:51 pm (UTC)I've seen the source. Since that event.
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Date: 2006-07-26 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 07:53 pm (UTC)What is Bearwalker going to do for fun now?
Though there's a near-equivalent level of discourse on the IMDB forums.
My ISCA account died years ago, but this does make me a little sad.
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Date: 2006-07-26 08:14 pm (UTC)Oh man, I cringed and went "BURRRRRRN!" but I know it's true.
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Date: 2006-07-26 08:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 08:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 08:40 pm (UTC)giant.net
Date: 2006-07-26 08:43 pm (UTC)Is anyone here still in contact with Always/Suman?
I have several very old web accounts (whose password I don't know) registered to abbe@giant.net. Naturally I haven't had access to giant.net in ages, I don't even know if people still use it. But if they do, and if abbe still exists there, I would *love* to put in a .forward or somesuch.
If anybody happens to be able to hook me up, please let me know! Either putting Suman in contact with me or telling me if my user still exists on the box, or whatever.
Um, yep.
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Date: 2006-07-26 08:46 pm (UTC)But you see it wasn't something thought up by a tenured professor that went through three years of departmental meetings and Board of Regents approval before being implemented. It was students? Who? They're doing whut? Thinking without permission?
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Date: 2006-07-26 08:54 pm (UTC)not like I'm going back to re-register, mind you...
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Date: 2006-07-26 09:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 09:36 pm (UTC)Jul 26, 2006 16:32 from Devil Lady (Sysop)
Welcome back to ISCABBS! The BBS was down this morning due to power problems
at the University of Iowa. Thanks to Tiberius for gettin us running again once
power was restored.
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Date: 2006-07-26 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 10:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 10:46 pm (UTC)!@H3;bJ'wwwwwww~
NO CARRIER
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Date: 2006-07-26 11:09 pm (UTC)LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
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Date: 2006-07-27 12:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-27 12:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-27 01:43 am (UTC)but I don't have to go to the basement
We're gonna hafta move your server
but you said I could stay
Yeah, so if you could just move your server down to the basement by tomorrow...
but... but... but...
...that'd be greeeeat.
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-27 05:35 am (UTC)