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Piero's Story: "Who's Piero?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introduction =================== I decided to write this text file for anybody interested in the story of "Piero". In this text file, it will explain the reputation, how and why I got into BBSing. This text file (Version D) is 695 lines long. Let me start out with a little intro first. My name is Dairenn and I live in the center of Los Angeles, California. I was born on June 5th, 1980. I didn't give out this information without the knowledge that it is extrordinarily difficult to obtain information with just a name and location. So if those without a full life feel the need to post this information everywhere (which does not make much sense since I've publicly released this file) then they do so without my concern. This text will be divided into Era's of my BBSing experience with chapters and three parts. Times will be noted and so will names for clarity. ===== Table of Contents: Part I: In the Beginning... Chapter 1..............................My First Modeming Experience Chapter 2..............................Discovering REAL BBSing Chapter 3..............................That mysterious Robert Stemmer Part II: The Various BBSes Chapter 1..............................The Ward Chapter 2..............................The Imperial Hotel Chapter 3..............................The After Dark BBS Chapter 4...(Sub-Chapter 3)............Sgt. Slaughter Chapter 5..............................The Death of the last efficient WWIV BBS Chapter 6..............................Napalm Haven Chapter 7..............................City FreHome Part III: The Peek of my BBSing Chapter 1..............................The InfoLink Cosmos Chapter 2..............................The Guardian Chapter 3..............................SouthBayNET Conversion to InfiNET Chapter 4..............................The InfoLink Cosmos's network problems Chapter 5..............................The "Why I HATE Piero" InfiNET Sub Part IV: The culmination of this Text Chapter 1..............................Mass-Review Chapter 2..............................What's happening now? Chapter 3..............................The Conclusion Part V: Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) updated constantly w/each new version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part I: In the Beginning... Chapter 1 My first modeming experience --------------------------------- Because our father (which we are divorced from) was studying to become a Computer Programmer in 1990, our mother bought us an IBM-PC XT Compatible Computer (No HDD, two 5 1/2" 360k disk drives and an Amber monochrome [HGA] Hercules Monitor with a Laser 190e Dot Matrix Printer) in September 1990. We payed a lot of money for this machine, but it payed off because my mom taught me how to type with a Typing Tutor Program when I was 10. I, from then on, had been using our computer for word processing, playing games and running programs. It was a pretty dull period, and because of that; she was searching through some of the software catalogs like from Egghead for some educational software and everything costed too much. Later, mom got a catalog from DAK Industries explaining Modeming in (I think) March of 1991. But in an unusual way; Drew (Drew Alan Kaplan, DAK) explained that with a modem you can just simply call a BBS, find some public domain software and logoff and begin using the stuff you got. So, she got the idea that we could get some educational software this way. Not understanding the concepts behind shareware, public domain and commercial software and why commercial software is so much different. Boy was I surprised when I was sent on the mission. My mom bought the modem Mail Order from Computer Direct in Illinois (BIG mistake) and she sent my father to find out how to do what Drew said was available. So we got a listing of 2,000 boards. Most of which were out of town and toll. The ones that were local either went down already or moved to a new area code and became toll, or (for the ones that didn't become toll), turned out to have gone down anyway. My ex-father's attempts were unsuccessful due to low interest so he quit BBSing altogether. Sometime, during summer of 1991 (like mid-late June '91), we receive a subscription offer to Prodigy. Their deal sounded pretty good at the time because we were essentially Modem-Idiots and hadn't known what a good deal was and wasn't. So we joined in 1991, and lucky for us it was pretty cool (considering the hardware we had). Because of family revelations during late summer - earily autum; our father was expelled from our family and we're still working on it due to our finances being extraordinarily limited by a very harsh degree. Chapter 2 Discovering REAL BBSing ------------------------------ Since our entrance into 1992, I became altogether bored with prodigy (again, considering the hardware we had). So, on January 19th, 1992 [7:19pm] I went thumbing through all the dusty disks and books we had gotten since obtaining our PC and I came upon a mysterious disk labeled, "Program" so I loaded it up and here comes Procomm! Something I hadn't seen in almost a year. So I did what I saw before and I was BBSing in no time. I was reading a little more in the pamphlets that we had and stuff. My first experience with getting deleted off of a BBS was my fault because I was unknowningly sending out characters that was messing up somebody's video display so they kicked me out. It was about May 1992 and I am finally getting into Downloading files. And because the BBS was lame (my modem was shot, so when I called any high speed BBS's that had a 9600+bps rate, I would get phony line noise unless I connected at 300bps); I figured getting files would be the best thing I could do. Even though the transfer time was painfully long. It was well worth it as far as I could tell. Anyway, I'm really getting into this BBSing thing until I discover the BBS list. I come upon two boards. Long Beach Gemini (Running WWIV v4.12 that I now know as being easily hackable) and The D.A.G. Board (which was running WWIV v4.07 which crashed and when it went back up JUST starting to run WWIV v4.12). You know, the funny thing is, is that The Dag BBS just kept crashing and crashing over and over it again. It was odd, but then again, if you're running WWIV v4.12 when WWIV v4.20e is out; it's no wonder. NOTE: Due to my dissatisfaction of the BBS's I was calling, I had a mission to eventually put up my own BBS. If I had have had the kind of computer equipment I have now [A packard bell Legend 300xs 386sx with 2megs extended ram, 106meg hard disk, VGA Color Monitor, one 3 1/4" 1.44meg disk drive and another 5 1/2" 1.2meg disk drive] and the first WWIV BBS I called was Blue Thunder at (818) 848-4104, I probably would've never put up my own BBS. That is why on June 28th, 1992; I downloaded my second BBS program; my first was downloaded in late March; OPUS.ZIP from my first BBS. I call these WWIV BBS's and finaly, BBSing was made easy. I had to stop calling Long Beach Gemini because we were charged $40 for the Toll charges to that 310 area code prefix. And to my knowledge, The D.A.G. Board is permanently down. Chapter 3 That mysterious Robert Stemmer ---------------------------------- Now, I'm on The Dag Board like I said before when one day (Some time during mid May 1992) I get some mail from a Robert Stemmer (who oddly enough signs off George Stark) which has an ad for two boards: The Midnight Express The After Dark BBS I called the first one and I had a very pleasant (but misleading) experience with the SysOp. His handle was Captain Midnight and we chatted for a while about running a BBS among other topics. All in all, I ran into hardly any trouble that I can think of at the moment. I was introduced into a variety of WWIV BBS's in the 310 area code such as The Ward, The Golden Chariot, The Imperial Hotel, Napalm Haven, Remote Control BBS and a few others my memory does not serve me to well on. Part II: The Various BBSes Chapter 1 The Ward ------------- I hadn't writen down the number to The After Dark BBS until after my experience with the others BBS systems had soured (explained later). The Imperial Hotel seemed to be ran a little better than The Ward for reasons again I cannot remember nor are relevant to the story I am telling. I really don't remember where I got the number for this BBS, but for all intents and purposes; I am just a sorry I ran into this swarm of killer bees as I am any other southbay board. Recalling my mission, in June, that I was given, in order to be allowed to call these Home Computer Systems, I decided that The Ward BBS would be the best candidate for my file-searching spree since their subs initially were uninteresting to me at the time. During my brief file library scan I discovered there is no such thing as Educational Shareware. Or for the few that are, they aren't very useful. So essentially my mission was all but terminated until I was sent back to look again, elsewhere. Through all this, I was deleted twice for two reasons. There is a lock out on 2400bps users and because I wasn't interested in Posting, I was not to call back. So I agreed to Dr. No (The SysOp of The Ward at the time) that I'll start posting (I'll never forget the time I told him that). That was the beginning of the end of innocence for me. From then on I was forever known as the Piero, the one who interrupted the eternal gibberish of inaccurate, trivial discussions. I was especially found annoying because when ever I was flamed, I would not respond like everyone else I saw flamed before I. I was hated for my precise responses reducing their moot points down to a simple, "Why don't you just leap off the face of this planet, we're happy being stupid!!!" But this didn't happen over night. The flaming was of such a minor and insignificant sort, my named wasn't so Widely recognized as an annoyance, And, the experience was vague. All I can remember is users such a GIJOE teaming up with others to poke fun instead of reasoning with me. Since I was still fairly new to the un-documented 'understanding' and unfairness to the BBSes that are shared amongst the users. Chapter 2 The Imperial Hotel ---------------------- While traveling back to The Imperial Hotel for asylum, I discovered that the same breed of pre-humans dwelled here as well, but that didn't come out until almost a year later. What kills me is that I was forced into Posting (because it's just general etiquette to do so) and yet when I exercise my 1st amendment right responsibly, I am treated like a sixth finger (an obstructive force). I watch other people call my BBS and they whine and complain about how I am being oppressive and am not giving them their right to freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does technically give you the right to say anything you want just short of yelling fire in a crowded bus; but that's just it. They use offensive language simply because they can. This is not responsible use of freedom of speech and expression. I feel that, if there is no other way to express your point without using obscenities, then be my guest; but using offensive language generally means you're probably ready to handle a rag war. The situation at The Imperial Hotel was very awkward as it was on going before and after I put up my BBS. What made the flaming on The Imperial Hotel the most unethical is because it was sparked by my reputation. See, whenever I'd post; simply because other popular people said I was a dumb-ass -- they'd treat me like one. There by making communication as easy as trying to walk though a pool of honey. That's why I don't talk to them anymore and I could give a damn about what they say in my face OR behind my back, so to speak. Once I said DigiT.W.I.T. sound like a Computer Virus, which some computer viruses do. (DigiT.W.I.T. is a text group headed by Woody who's very popular on The SlowSleep and City FreHome.) Well, that surely fired up a great rag-war. I explained how I was joking (like everybody does to me) and they, all of a sudden, can't take a joke. Why? Because it was posted under the handle PIERO. So again, I was arguing my point above about Freedom of Speech. Finally, Steppenwolf (the SysOp of The Imperial Hotel) added a restriction to my user account labeled; P. In the WWIV v4.2x (the BBS software) documentation, the restriction "P" causes the board to display, "Too many messages posted to day." when ever you try to hit W to reply to a message or P to post a message. Basically, I was restricted from posting. Later, Charlie had been subject to the same abusive language, as well. Chapter 3 The After Dark BBS ------------------------- After becoming more than fed up with the stupidity of most southbay users, I decided to call The D.A.G. Board back which was, evidently down (as usually). By this time I have made some friends miraculously enough as that sounds, from the BBS's that I've called. Namely, Remote Control BBS; fortunately -- the friend was a SysOp who hardly helped in my continuous quest to put up my own BBS. Eventually his BBS went down to become elite (BLAH!) so our friendship deteriorated to nothing. Finaly, The D.A.G BBS goes back up sometime during Mid-late July and I look inside my mailbox to check if I still have that mail from Robert Stemmer (which I now know as George Stark) and I write down the number to The After Dark BBS. Since he was running his BBS out of his home voice line and Lord Jacien, the SysOp lives with his mother, he had to run his BBS from 10pm to 10am because his mother wouldn't have it if it ran any sooner or later. I call his system and since he was a relativly new SysOp we chat immediately (this was my introduction to Two-Way Chat). We talked for a while about a variety of subjects including my quest to put up a WWIV Board. From my encounter with Lord Jacien, he's not only a mediocre Star Trek Fan, he also has a split-personality. Let me tell you about the time I received my first Crank Call from getting involved with this brand new collection of jokers. Chapter 4 Sgt. Slaughter ------------------ This character is perhaps the most notorious citizen I have ever had the misfortune to have encountered in all my months of BBSing. He has convenient memory losses, unconsciously is annoying and has a really grim outlook on life plus over philosophised everything. I would definitely suggest that you stay away from this person if you don't want to have nightmares for the next century. It all started in the beginning of 1992 when Lord Jacien befriends some troubled teen because his father left him (I suppose). Lord Jacien gives this teen his home phone number (which happens to be his Electronic bulletin board System's Phone Line at the time at the same time) so if he needed any help, the teen could call him. After a while he started calling too much and the SysOp said he's started to annoy him; finally he starts crank calling him. A few months later I unsuspectingly call the BBS in question and as usual left my information to him (leaving my number and everything, thank goodness I wasn't required to put down my address). Anyhow about 4 or so months later some weird guy starts calling my mother up saying I'm a Nazi or whatever. Naturally, my mother wakes me from my nap and asks me what is this? So she hands me the receiver and it's this weird guy (I didn't who know it is at the time) so he says he's Maniac (I didn't know who that was at the time, either). So, I thought to myself, "Yeah, I know that; but what's your handle?" So finally I hang up. By this time I'm so-called "Friends" with this Lord Jacien character and ask him who is this pestering my mother and I? First he takes the worst route possible and asks Maniac directly if he's been calling me up and giving me a hard time. The Real Maniac {which IS his Handle, by the way} gains a grudge against me (he always did have an attitude problem). Anyhow, after Lord Jacien ruins my reputation just that much more in the southbay, THEN he tells me it's Kelly otherwise known as Sgt. Slaughter. I ask who's he? And Jacien explains SOME of what I said. I was still bewildered of how he got my home voice number still. During the next few early months of '93 I get to know this crank caller, to the point that he's ALMOST a Friend, well; sort of. Then he went undercover and flipped out again as he did with the SysOp. By THIS time, Kelly is SO turned on by making MY life a living hell, he gives L.J. a break and never bothers him again. Meanwhile in March '93, the SysOp and I have an All-Nite-Long Conversation on the phone (since his BBS name changed to City Frehome and so did his number as well as him going 24hrs). During this conversation he mentions everything about how he and Sgt. Slaughter got to know each other and all the rest of it. Then The Sysop tells me something new and I quote, "I must of got up to get a Pepsi while I left it in Temp Sysop mode (laugh, laugh) and he must have scanned the user list and been capturing too. He must have gotten half the user list (Laugh, Laugh). Then he says, "Yeah I know it's not funny but I must be responsible for a lot of crank calls, huh?" From a Rumor I heard about, Lord Jacien could have TOLD Sgt. Slaughter to call me because it would be "FUN" (that Very polymorphic word). This character is now known as Isis and hangs around Cyberverse Online at (310) 643-3700 which, unfortunately, has Internet access. Luckly he just plans to use up the free time and then split from what I know. And due to the release of this text file, he has personally threatened my life on Cybververse Online in Chat Mode. Since then, the System Adminstrator of Cyberverse Online has deleted that user (the first user to be deleted on that BBS). Again, this guy is a real downer; he always has pointed out to me how much a wussy lamer Lord Jacien is (which isn't too far off from the truth) but it isn't like he isn't too different. As I always say, don't throw stones if you live in a glass house. Sgt. Slaughter informed me that L.J. just seeks attention and smokes pot and all because in reality he made up that story about being disabled (which I have later found out to be untrue). But on the contrary, Sgt. Slaughter alas is the person seeking attention because, otherwise, he wouldn't be so interested in talking to (rather bugging) me. He always has accused me of being socially detached but even though I am very strict about the way I live, I can be and am more socialble than Sgt. Slaughter is and can ever be because he THINKS too much. That's what his problem is. Takes things WAY to literally. Very critical. ----- NOTE: In August 1990, I finally obtained a copy of WWIV v4.12 and began working on my own BBS, but, it wasn't until before I was deleted from City Frehome that I obtained a copy of WWIV v4.21 and began serious beta testing. The InfoLink Cosmos, finally went online at 5pm on December 23rd, 1992. Chapter 5 The Death of the last efficient WWIV BBS ---------------------------------------- Some time during September 1992, one of the greatest WWIV BBS's in the 310 area code had virtually gone down. It was salvaged by Sleepy, his number one Co-SysOp. She was a 46 year old woman who was responsible for my validation on The Midnight Express. She seems a fairly nice mature lady, I hadn't any idea she was female until I talked with her. Because of a later conversation I had with the successful Sysop, I discovered that the original SysOp, Captain Midnight was arrested by the Federal Police. The SlowSleep BBS (how the reputation began) ------------------------------------------------ I call back "The (deceased) Midnight Express" now known as The SlowSleep and my user account still remains (#30), however, unlike Captain Midnight; I mistakenly break a few BBSing rules that were conveniently unavailable to my access at the time. So now I'm doing a three-some conversation between Sleepy, The Sysop of Remote Control (Aftershock) and myself. The SysOp was on The SlowSleep and he was on his voice line talking to me. So I could relay messages back and forth through him. All in all I told her that I was not afriad of her and her mob of teenaged-tribal warriors. This occured some time during November 1992. To my knowledge, this system is no longer up when I call that BBS's phone number now. I primarily feel that since I resisted being bogged down by everybody's one-sided opinion of me, I was considered their most notorious problem; that is why later on the, "Why I Hate Piero sub was created" and how come people were sent after my board and sent to get information. Chapter 6 Napalm Haven ----------------- I would have to say this is the least place I was ragged on. This was also the first BBS that I've ever called when we obtained our better computer on December 7th, 1992. For more story-relevant information about this section refer to Chapter 2 Part 3. This BBS went down and never came back up as the SysOp promissed on other boards. Or, it DID go back up, but (perhaps) turned Elite (distributes Pirated [stolen] software), uses a New User Password/Voting and probably doesn't advertise opening because of that fact. If that is the case, I would have to say that I am very sorry and sad to see another fine WWIV board gone bad. :( Chapter 7 City FreHome ----------------- In October, Lord Jacien finally up'ed the money to get his own phone line so The After Dark BBS went twenty-four hours and he re-named his board City FreHome to sound like the medieval days (ironically the days of female suppression). I get the distinct feeling he does not like Females and this could partially have something to do with what had gone on. Part III: After the Peek of my BBSing activity Chapter 1 The InfoLink Cosmos ======================== Without hardly any assistance and many hours of reading software documentation, downloading programs (with a damaged modem and an outdated computer) testing out WWIV and getting a new computer, The InfoLink Cosmos Successfully went online nearly un-hackable with WWIV v4.21 on December 23rd, 1992. (213-294-5387, 5pm-11pm Weekdays & 3pm-10pm Saturdays; closed on sundays.) Our system has undergone two major crashes, the second one suffered on October 10th, 1994 when The InfoLink Cosmos' Computer HDD's Partition became corrupted and needed to be deleted (destroying the HDD's Directory structure) and also requiring to be re-formated and to have MS-DOS be re-installed. The InfoLink Cosmos re-openned on December 2nd, 1994 at 5:00pm. The SysOp. Panmann of Cosmos BBS, which went up on August 29th, 1992 (a day before I downloaded my first copy of WWIV, Version 4.12) has accused me of "Ripping off his BBS name" which is a moot point, again, because lots of establishments share the same word in their titles. Just go get your average Los Angeles Pacific Bell White Pages and look up: Universal Studios. You will find out how many businesses using the word 'Universal' in their company name. Only immature little kids get so touchy over insignificant things such as that. But because he has a powerful "mouth" in the southbay, he effectively became half the reason I'm so 'famous'. Chapter 2 The Guardian ----------------- I left for the grocery store at about 3:31pm on the day of the BBS opening so I just put it up and when I returned home, I entered into a dark room (it was about 5:30pm during the Winter so it would be close to night time) when went I flicked on the lights I saw in the Top Of Screen Data The Guardian was online. During the pre-BBS openning months, The Guardian was backing most of my arguments (maining the prejudice against 2400bps modems and how everybody may not be able to afford a faster modem). The Guardian's modem was literally saudered into his computer so he had no choice. MVD (which is now scattered throughout the SouthBay acting individually on the spur of the moment) have fingered The Guardian as being a "Lamer" and captured over 100 posts that sometimes were and were not lame based on the standards of an actual SysOp. On the one hand I can agree with MVD for ridiculing The Guardian's non-legible messages because he often used incorrect punctuation, spelling and various other improper posting rules. But on the other, MVD was totally out of line for making fun of his computer equipment. It isn't as though the money for these things fall out of the sky; so if his computer equipment isn't so fine then one should leave them alone. Also, MVD was making fun of The Guardian's fascination with the speed of his new 9600bps modem. This, again, was not ethical. So on Napalm Haven, we were essentially allies but this was just a hoax. Because shortly after his access was granted on my BBS, his attitude changed completely once he upgraded his modem (presumably to 14.4k baud). He resently was found on Muddy Waters doing a continuous rag including using homosexual slurs in regards to my BBS and I in the BBS List on that Board. Chapter 3 SouthBayNET Conversion to InfiNET ------------------------------------- Yes, as weenie as the second name sounds, it happened. Since the release of WWIV v4.21a; Multiple Networks were allowed to be ran on a WWIV BBS without the necessity to modify the source code and go through all the hassle of buying a compiler plus the extra financial discomfort of registering still. Because of the growing number of BBS's in the southbay region of California (namely the 310 area code), they decided with this new software they could get together and form a network headed by Null & Void. And because the previous name was too generic and long, they had a SysOp wide vote on what they should name themselves. They had, GoldNET, and a few others but the only reason I remember that name is because it was the best sounding up there. I think they had ClubNET (which seemed more appropriate) but again it wasn't as good sounding. Currently, Sleepy of The SlowSleep BBS is the president of InfiNET (now a west coast network with systems in Oregon and Washington states). Anyhow, they picked the worst on the list which was InfiNET because of how close it sounds to Infinite which hardly describes their little computer link up. The conversion was made in March of 1993. Chapter 4 The InfoLink Cosmos's network problems: -------------------------------------------- This has something to do with the core of my reputation, just bare with me. Now, because I needed more Posting activity I needed to join a network and since I was unregistered, join WWIVnet looked like a non-possibility. (I, however, did enquire about that fact and found out that you can be unregistered for two months and be in WWIVnet), however did not know that until after I began net-fishing. I applyed for InfiNET (because it was the only other WWIV-type Network I've heard of, but because Sleepy is running the network (as far as I am concerned) based on a whim; she says no because she finds me annoying. Such a common phrase, shows weakness. Due to their unethical refusal of membership which, by no means, are they obligated to grant me -- I called the resently discovered Amber, the origin of WWIV run by Wayne Bell, the author of WWIV by going through the README.* files in the WWIV421A.ZIP package). I looked through their file library on the many network applications and such uploaded to his system. As it seems, there were more fish in the sea than previously concluded. I applyed several times until finally Lord Jacien Suggested I apply for Cosmic-TALk Network in April. But it just so happens that the Network Coordinator is Panmann, I was constantly tossed back and forth by these two. I was encouraged to join Cosmic-TALk Net by Lord Jacien, but lacked support when Panmann had severely opposed. I decided to give up once I had discovered that Lord Jacien wouldn't help me. After I had informed Lord Jacien of my plans, he had suggested that I download a few net applications from Amber. This turned out to be one of the few valuable suggestions he made as I did find a very good network and a very reliable connection as well. Chapter 5 The "Why I HATE Piero" InfiNET Sub --------------------------------------- It is about late spring earily Summer when due to a little spat, Lord Jacien put together a little sub called, "Why I HATE Piero". It is interesting, often times he'd be the only person who'd fake it like he understood me. And he, of all people, would host a sub where users were recruited to gather information about my board, then launch a mass attack on it. The worst of it, which was really the funniest is when Obsolete though he tricked my Co-SysOp into giving up our System Password and User List but telling him he just wanted to look at my CONFIG.DAT and USER.LST for fun because he was curious. He got a fake user list and CONFIG.DAT and I really enjoyed watching people call here and making stupid hack attemps all up and down my BBS. The effort died off after mid-late fall of 1993 (the worst year of my new life). The janus-faced coward, Lord Jacien returns to our BBS to inform us of his actions. For what he was trying to prove is beyond me. This area is where rumors were brought and hate was stired. It isn't so much this one sub that caused the entire movement against me as it was the combination of these main things: Part IV: The culmination of this Text. Chapter 1 Mass-Review ---------------- The various small bashing fests among the smaller BBS's, Sleepy pouting about my actions on her BBS and our semi-argument, The Argument about the rumor that I ripped off the name of Panmann's BBS name, Woody's DigiT.W.I.T. song about me, Lord Jacien's little fit that was the inspiration to create that nasty little sub. You combine all of this and you get my reputation. Chapter 2 What's happening now? -------------------------- Basically nothing, but here are a few past events that may be important to this text: Continuous ragging on the non-ran Muddy Waters BBS, The Guardian making prank-ANSI color graphics drawings of my BBS name with a lot of sexually deviating remarks, comments and slurs. The occasional appearances of Grand Moff Tarken Also Known As Maelstrom (who is a WWIV Registration deadbeat) on our BBS. Various idiotic users calling our BBS causing disturbances. I put up my own Network (NOVAnet) and someone I let in from the southbay (going against my better judgment). His Handle was Zeus, Turain and now Dosage (from what I know). I helped put up his BBS and then he let his users rag on my net, users and BBS. I had to kick him out and he got on the bandwagon of "Raging on Piero". NOTE: Even though Sleepy did me wrong at an impressionable age when I began calling BBS's, I would still like to thank her for letting me use her Guest SysOp Account to download Effros' Melody Master v2.1 from her BBS. Chapter 3 The Conclusion ------------------- This text file is free to be passed around (just so long as it isn't modified) to help explain how come Piero is such a known name. I'd be happy to answer any comments or questions as well as make event-corrections as they come in to this text. I can be contacted by E-Mailing piero@cyberverse.com, 1-2351@terranet.bluethun.quake.com (via Internet) 1@1070 WWIVnet, 1@2351, IceNET and/or TerraNET, 1@1 NOVAnet, 1@2355 AQUAnet or call The InfoLink Cosmos and leave feedback by using the Guest Account. Just Type in Guest at the NN: prompt then NEW as the password and 0000 as the phone number. Also, in conclusion, if there are any error(s) of events listed here in this text file (due to the fact that the events occured so long ago) please send it to the above listed address. Part V: The part I wrote because I couldn't figure out what to say! :) Appendix A Frequently Asked Questions ------------------------------ Q: Why don't you just change your Handle? A: That would be the easy way out, and besides; with my luck they'll probably figure out it is me because of my unique style of posting (mainly, my posts are clear and accurate) plus I have an uncommon (straight forward) perception of life. Q: Why did you even keep calling these BBS's? A: It's in the story. Remember when I mentioned The Ward? That BBS was my target for obtaining FILES. Now when my interest turned to bring up a Board, my interest returned to obtaining files. Now, it just so happened that I knew of no WWIV BBS's in the 213 area (that had a Transfer Section worth downloading from [except for The Pod Bay Door BBS which I hadn't discovered until Some Time later]. So since the reasons WHY boards were invented were to post, and it is against every molecule of my being to lie, I had to say what I saw; which was corruption (mentioned in Chapter 2, Part 2). I stopped contacting these boards after mine went up. Q. You were very vague in what you meant by the various little bashings made on each of the subs, what specificly were you speaking of? A: Since it occured such a long time ago, I have a very disappointing reply. All the ragging I can remember is in Chapter 2, Part 2; which didn't happen until a little ways after I was established as the public nuisance of the southbay. But basically, it was of the same genre on The Imperial Hotel elsewhere. Q: Why did you want to put up your own BBS? Every since I logged on PC Heaven (a BBS listed in the original BBS listing I obtained) I decided that a BBS in the 213 area code must be better than this. So tried my best to be the Best BBS in all of 213 (which I am now just as good as The Pod Bay Door BBS). Q: Don't you care that due to their extreme dislike of you that your reputation should ban you from the boards you're calling or the boards you might call in the future? A: For one thing, I wouldn't WANT to call a board who's SysOp would be that put off by me due to those claims. I know lots of SysOps that I am not at odds with and have quite frankly never heard of this scenerio. They try to appear like they are vast and have a far reach so if I make them angry, they could screw things up REAL bad for me in the modeming world. But I've got news for them, THEY AREN'T THE WORLD. They have a strong voice in the vast majority; but what are they the majority of? People that I don't want to have ANY thing to do with. Q: Why did you release a file about your personal history in the modeming community? A: I couldn't tell you how many times I have been asked THIS question. Many believe it is simply an Ego Trip on my part to be recognized as this dope in the BBSing scene that got a bum rap. No, this is more like to explain to the 20-40 daily e-mails I receive (both locally and network wise) about all this stuff about Piero. Listen, I want to be a normal SysOp just like every other great SysOp I've known, but they were not unfortunate enough to have lived in the heart of tinsletown with a bunch of superficial boys wasting their life (which they claim to have). Let me ask them, if they did have a life; why do they find it so necessary to bug me? Because that IS their life! Q: Are you concerned about what the people will do that you mentioned in your autobiography? A: No! They put my life through hell, it's about time all these foolish rumors were put the death and let the truth be know. As they say, the truth hurts when you're a liar. Any FAQ's are welcome to be sent to the above address. =============================================================================== <EOF>