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Conference noted::hackers_v1

Title:-={ H A C K E R S }=-
Notice:Write locked - see NOTED::HACKERS
Moderator:DIEHRD::MORRIS
Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 03 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:680
Total number of notes:5456

53.0. "Phantom SysOp" by VIKING::WASSER_1 () Wed Aug 29 1984 16:30

	I heard of a neat hack today:  A bulletin board system operator
	in Austin Texas got so tired of people using the CHAT command to
	get a live (on line) conversation with the system operator that
	he connected another computer running ELIZA in place of the
	operator terminal.  He changes the data used by ELIZA to make it
	sound more like a SysOp.  Most of the people who want to talk
	don't realize that they are not talking to a human.

		-J. Wasser
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53.1VIKING::WATERSWed Aug 29 1984 21:274
	That's pretty amusing John. What system?

				- Lester -
53.2PSYCHE::MCVAYSun Sep 09 1984 23:292
 Nothing personal...but occasionally some of my conversations with live
System Operators have also left me wondering if I'm talking to a human.
53.3SMAUG::MITTONSun Sep 16 1984 04:1617
When I ran a CBBS, some people complained I didn't have a Chat command.
They didn't seem to be mulified by my comment that I wasn't there anyways.

Now I run a FIDO, which does have a Chat command (which in V9 finally
adds some hours restrictions).  Now they have their command, I'm still
not there! (except at night, and now I don't have to listen to the beeps)

What I need as a SYSOP is a Chat command that does nothing but wait a 
while and say I'm not availible.  By the looks of my user log, it seems
that a lot of lusers want to chat with me.  I don't understand why.
The last chat I answered, after being asked for more Commodore-64 support
on my board, the user started swearing at me.  Needless to say, I immediately
punched the TALK switch on the DF03.   I have enough problems with
hackers leaving obscene and libalous messages, that I don't need abuse
in real-time.

	Dave Mitton, Sysop, NECS FIDO (nee: CBBS/Boston)
53.4My computer is talking...HYEND::CCLEGGOn a clear disk you can seek forever.Fri Dec 18 1987 18:333
    Users of a Boston area bbs (ICOMM) have been chatting with a chat
    simulator every April 1st for the last three years or so....
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