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- │ THE GLOBAL BLACKLISTING AGENCY │
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- │ BY │
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- │ HOT FLASH & NICK DILUCCI │
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- This agency is a group of SysOps and CoSysOps who
- wish to make things better for BBS'es. With the coming of
- aliases, worms, viri, trojans, ansi codes, obnoxious users,
- etc., etc., it becomes more difficult to do this. One user
- may log onto one board, upload a trojan, be deleted, and
- then do the same on another board. Other users are careless
- by not disabling call waiting. Others are rude and harass
- the SysOp and other users. With all these things that can
- cause damage or harassment shouldn't those other SysOps be
- warned about these users? That is why we have founded the
- Global Blacklisting Agency. True, organizations like TUGOS
- have been around for ages, but at best they only extend
- across a state. We hope to have the first such organization
- to extend worldwide.
-
- This agency works by the presentation of proof
- that a certain user is dangerous or harmful in some way to
- his board and other boards. By presenting the needed trace
- logs or messages that show what the user has done the user
- can be blacklisted from other boards. The agency gets a list
- of users and puts all of it with the evidence in files.
- These files are distributed elswhere to other boards where
- the other SysOps will hear of it. They will provide the
- needed information on users who are possibly obnoxious,
- harmful, or dangerous.
-
- The SysOps who have users they have blacklisted
- off their BBS, may call the Negative Space BBS(713 498 7550) in
- Houston, Texas. The SysOp must prove he is a SysOp and must
- leave evidence on the damage or harassment the user has
- done. Once the user is evaluated as a true bad user he and
- the evidence against him will be added to the GBA Blacklist
- and the GBA Bad User Files. Our Blacklist will be
- distributed as widely as possible across all cities, states,
- and countries. We realize that a user should not be able to
- ruin one board in Texas and then just call Arkansas and ruin
- another, and then Australia and ruin yet another! The Sysops
- of America and elsewhere should be warned of these dangerous
- and/or obnoxious users.
-
- Obviously, the blacklist does not have to be
- complied with by Sysops nor are SysOps exempt from the
- blacklist. This is an agency that will put a user on the
- list if the evidence dictates. If we find the evidence later
- falsified the SysOp who gave the false information will be
- blacklisted and he will go into the files. Sysops who have
- been blacklisted may not enter anything to our list and
- files. BBS'es ran by blacklisted Sysops will be listed too,
- although we know we can't stop anyone from calling them if
- he or she wants to. We can't force anyone to blacklist any
- user or abdicate any board. We only give warnings to other
- users and SysOps that they would not likely want these
- people on our blacklist on their board. If they wish to keep
- one or more of the users we blacklisted, so be it. It is
- their risk and if anything happens we can only say they were
- warned.
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- If any SysOp wants to add to our blacklist files of
- bad users, call Negative Space BBS(713-498-7550) of Houston,
- Texas and E-mail Shawn Quinn or Nicholas DiLucci. We will
- answer your request and will want to examine the evidence you
- have on the user you wish to add to the blacklist. If we find
- it satisfactory we will add the user to the blacklist files.
- If not, we will E-mail that there isn't enough evidence and that
- we need more to blacklist the user. If needed upload the
- evidence to us personally and we will examine it after we have
- accepted your request for blacklisting. First, we check for the
- name of the SysOp to see if it is on the blacklist. Every month,
- a list of bad users will be distributed to various BBS'es in
- various areas of the US and elswhere. Eventually, the blacklist
- will be distributed across the US and other countries and the
- bad users will have less access to most BBS'es.
-
- Hopefully, this will result in more surviving
- boards. The BBS'es that would have gone down because of
- trojans, viri, worms, harassment, and other bad things from
- bad users would have been reduced. As more boards survive
- more boards will open. People will start buying computers
- and not only call boards but set up new ones of their own.
- This blacklisting will help the BBS cause throughout the
- world and make it more respectable then the portrayal often
- given about them being filled with hackers and criminals.
- Modems and bulletin board systems may someday become as much
- a part of life as the telephone and we need all the help to
- get it there intact. The proliferation of bad users
- everywhere will only keep these bulletin board systems in
- fewer numbers. Wouldn't that be a shame...?
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- 713 498 7550 - Negative Space BBS
- SysOps: Shawn Quinn & Nicholas DiLucci
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