{"id":36,"date":"2005-12-02T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T08:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-04-08T21:55:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:55:58","slug":"vintage-bbs-validation-message-of-the-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/36\/vintage-bbs-validation-message-of-the-week-4","title":{"rendered":"Vintage BBS Validation Message of the Week (#4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/cavepunk_small1.jpg' alt='Call The Cave, Punk!'  class=\"alignright\"\/>Here are a few more entertaining and interesting validation messages from my archive.  For an explanation of what a validation message is, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/17\" target=\"new\">the first entry in this series<\/a>.  By the way, check out my new Synchronet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavebbs.com\" target=\"new\">Cave BBS<\/a> at <a href=\"telnet:cavebbs.homeip.net\" target=\"new\">cavebbs.homeip.net port 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSubject: log o0n<br \/>\nName: Kerry Straughn #532 @2<br \/>\nDate: Tue Oct 07 17:03:36 1997<br \/>\nRE: Validation Feedback<\/p>\n<p>Hi, heard about you from the Sanitarium. Pittsboro just got local service to the Apex,Raleigh and Cary areas. Know any other good bbses to try?<\/p>\n<p><em>[about six blank spaces]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had this same problem at the Sanitarium. A backslash in the direction of your help screen brings up my com program directory. I don&#8217;t know how to get out of this screen or if this message will save when I hang up. That&#8217;s the only way I can get out of here. <\/p>\n<p>HELP ME PLEASE !!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember getting stuck in similar situations on other online services before.  Especially when telnetting into Compuserve, where I had to manually hit Ctrl-J just to get a new line.<\/p>\n<p>You know, not everybody who called my BBS was silly, bad at spelling\/grammar or technologically inept.  I&#8217;d post some nicely written messages, but they&#8217;d be pretty boring.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSubject: hmm&#8230;<br \/>\nName: Tom Violins #380<br \/>\nDate: Sun Nov 17 19:07:04 1996<br \/>\nRE: Validation Feedback<\/p>\n<p>changes changes&#8230; it&#8217;s been a LOOONG while since i&#8217;ve called here.  let&#8217;s see you might not remember me&#8230; i was uhm Mr Self Destruct, Bad Acid, uhm Liquid Jesus&#8230; anyway, it&#8217;s been a while..  access would be appreciated (and appropriate) just kidding. well, no, it would be appreciated..<\/p>\n<p>anyway, uhm hope things are going cool&#8230; just stay away from dat crack, man!<\/p>\n<p>tom violins\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading other people&#8217;s colorful and interesting BBS aliases was a large part of the fun of BBSing.  Ah.  The good &#8216;ole days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more entertaining and interesting validation messages from my archive. For an explanation of what a validation message is, check out the first entry in this series. By the way, check out my new Synchronet Cave BBS at cavebbs.homeip.net port 23. Subject: log o0n Name: Kerry Straughn #532 @2 Date: Tue Oct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}