Sports? Close as I get to sports, mountain bike trail riding in Md. I was up to 12 miles or so at park trail rides. Gotta get back to it!! Good for ya. I love nature, and to get out forget everything.

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Sports? Close as I get to sports, mountain bike trail riding in Md. I
was up to 12 miles or so at park trail rides. Gotta get back to it!! Good f TI>ya. I love nature, and to get out forget everything.

I get out as much as I can. Live near lake Erie and ride around the
Presque Isle penninsula which is around 13 miles. Also belong to the
'Rails to Trails' organization.

Love to ride on the trails made where older rail lines ran. The ride is normally pretty smooth and level. Many trails are paved or limestoned so
riding is effortless.

Can't wait to get back out in the spring!

Cougar
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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to TIM on Sun Jan 22 2023 07:46 am

I get out as much as I can. Live near lake Erie and ride around the Presque Isle penninsula which is around 13 miles. Also belong to the 'Rails to Trails' organization.

Love to ride on the trails made where older rail lines ran. The ride is normally pretty smooth and level. Many trails are paved or limestoned so riding is effortless.

I'm originaly from socal but i have been living in Central Pa in dauphin county about an hr north of harrisburg I live in a valley between two mountains and there are a ton of bike/atv trails within walking distance of my home. the appalachian trail is about 20 mins by car from were i live. We have about 1400 people in our burrow/township. I have lived here about 16yrs now and have not found all the trails around here plus this was a huge mining town back in the day with a lot of hidden stuff old train beds etc. there are a few organizations that you have to pay to ride your atv on a few of them and others you can be on but not atv mostly for forest service.

BrokenMind

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I'm originaly from socal but i have been living in Central Pa in
dauphin county about an hr north of harrisburg I live in a valley
between two mountains and there are a ton of bike/atv trails within walking distance of my home. the appalachian trail is about 20 mins by
car from were i live. We have about 1400 people in our
burrow/township. I have lived here about 16yrs now and have not found
all the trails around here plus this was a huge mining town back in
the day with a lot of hidden stuff old train beds etc. there are a few organizations that you have to pay to ride your atv on a few of them
and others you can be on but not atv mostly for forest service. BrokenMind

Sounds like I have a new place to visit! I like to take 3 day
weekend trips and try new trails, nothing but an 8 hour drive 8^).

Thanks for the tip!

Cougar

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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to BROKENMIND on Fri Jan 27 2023 12:42 pm

I'm originaly from socal but i have been living in Central Pa in
dauphin county about an hr north of harrisburg I live in a valley
between two mountains and there are a ton of bike/atv trails within
walking distance of my home. the appalachian trail is about 20 mins
by car from were i live. We have about 1400 people in our
burrow/township. I have lived here about 16yrs now and have not
found all the trails around here plus this was a huge mining town
back in the day with a lot of hidden stuff old train beds etc. there
are a few organizations that you have to pay to ride your atv on a
few of them and others you can be on but not atv mostly for forest
service. BrokenMind

Sounds like I have a new place to visit! I like to take 3 day
weekend trips and try new trails, nothing but an 8 hour drive 8^).

Thanks for the tip!

Not a problem this is a vary small town and you blink and miss it but it grows on you. only thing that drives me nuts is having to travel for most things doctors and such and also that fact is that if you have a egg in my town by time you get to the next down 2 mins later it's turned into a full blown chicken. Small down drama is like no other lol. But as in visiting and travilin though and trails this area is great for it and it's stunning. when the the power goes out and you go outside you can't see your hand infront of your face and clean and air and at times you think you could reach out and touch the stars you can see them so well..

BrokenMind

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other lol. But as in visiting and travilin though and trails this area
is great for it and it's stunning. when the the power goes out and you
go outside you can't see your hand infront of your face and clean and
air and at times you think you could reach out and touch the stars you
can see them so well..

Sounds like you have settled in pretty well, and I can tell you like
where you live. I also live in a rural area, I have 17 acres and
lots of room. I used to just go out on a clear evening in the
summer and lay in the grass to look at the stars. I haven't done
that in a while, but your message makes me want to give it a try
again this summer!

Thanks again!

Cougar


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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to BROKENMIND on Sat Feb 04 2023 07:28 am

Quoting Brokenmind to Cougar428 <=-

other lol. But as in visiting and travilin though and trails this area is great for it and it's stunning. when the the power goes out and you go outside you can't see your hand infront of your face and clean and air and at times you think you could reach out and touch the stars you can see them so well..

Sounds like you have settled in pretty well, and I can tell you like
where you live. I also live in a rural area, I have 17 acres and
lots of room. I used to just go out on a clear evening in the
summer and lay in the grass to look at the stars. I haven't done
that in a while, but your message makes me want to give it a try
again this summer!

Thanks again!

Cougar

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I live in the "sticks" in SW Michigan, and I have 5 acres of frontage surrounded by 80 acres owned by the previous owner. She sold off the house
and land, but kept the farm land for renting. I'm on a side road, so there's
times I can shoot critters from the front porch with a .22 or even take a
leak off the porch without disturbing the neighbors.

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I live in the "sticks" in SW Michigan, and I have 5 acres of frontage surrounded by 80 acres owned by the previous owner. She sold off the house and land, but kept the farm land for renting. I'm on a side
road, so there's times I can shoot critters from the front porch
with a .22 or even take a leak off the porch without disturbing the neighbors.

Wow. Taking a leak in the front yard...

Wait, you're not from Appalachia are you?
(Just kidding! Appalachians - Please don't hit me!)

:^)

Cougar


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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to MOONDOG on Tue Feb 07 2023 10:45 pm

Quoting Moondog to Cougar428 <=-

I live in the "sticks" in SW Michigan, and I have 5 acres of frontage surrounded by 80 acres owned by the previous owner. She sold off the house and land, but kept the farm land for renting. I'm on a side road, so there's times I can shoot critters from the front porch
with a .22 or even take a leak off the porch without disturbing the neighbors.

Wow. Taking a leak in the front yard...

Wait, you're not from Appalachia are you?
(Just kidding! Appalachians - Please don't hit me!)

:^)

Cougar

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Southwest Michigan, about 60 miles due east across Lake Michigan.

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Wow. Taking a leak in the front yard...

Wait, you're not from Appalachia are you?
(Just kidding! Appalachians - Please don't hit me!)

:^)

Southwest Michigan, about 60 miles due east across Lake Michigan.

Hey there Moondog, you realize I was only kidding right? I realize
it can be hard to tell if someone is serious with mail messages.
But I was just kidding.

I sent you this and marked it as personal. I have been wondering if
it really is personal and only you would recieve it. I'd hate to
send someone a "personal only" message only to find it went to
everyone in the conference.

I imagine sysops could see any message. What do you think?

Cougar
(Northwest, Pennsylvania)

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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to MOONDOG on Thu Feb 09 2023 08:52 am

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Wow. Taking a leak in the front yard...

Wait, you're not from Appalachia are you?
(Just kidding! Appalachians - Please don't hit me!)

:^)

Southwest Michigan, about 60 miles due east across Lake Michigan.

Hey there Moondog, you realize I was only kidding right? I realize
it can be hard to tell if someone is serious with mail messages.
But I was just kidding.

I sent you this and marked it as personal. I have been wondering if
it really is personal and only you would recieve it. I'd hate to
send someone a "personal only" message only to find it went to
everyone in the conference.

I imagine sysops could see any message. What do you think?

Cougar
(Northwest, Pennsylvania)

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Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could view all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access because we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked to play games and talk dirty with other board members. We were concerned for her safety with
regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my friend's next
door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't want any part of here. He said she was too
crazy

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Re: biking
By: Moondog to Cougar428 on Thu Feb 09 2023 12:36 pm

Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could view all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access because we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked to play games and talk dirty with other board members. We were concerned for her safety with regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my friend's next door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't want any part of here. He said she was too crazy

Online safety is definitely a concern, and back when BBSes were in their heyday, I'm not sure many people realized what was going on sometimes. When I was 13 (1993), there was a local BBS I was using where another user had contacted me and said she was a girl about my age and said "she" had wanted to meet up and do some stuff, but just a couple days later, I noticed that user's account no longer existed on that BBS. I had a feeling the sysop(s) may have seen the message and perhaps that person had done some other things to make it seem they weren't who they said they were.

And before that, when I was 12 and first starting to use BBSes, there was one local BBS that had a matchmaker door. There was a girl my age I started talking to there and we ended up exchanging phone numbers. She called our house one day and I talked to her for a minute (she did sound like a 12 year old girl) but at the time I felt a little weird about talking to an unknown girl like that and I didn't talk to her again.

Nightfox

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Re: biking
By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Feb 09 2023 04:30 pm

And before that, when I was 12 and first starting to use BBSes, there was one local BBS that had a matchmaker door. There was a girl my age I started talking to there and we ended up exchanging phone numbers. She called our house one day and I talked to her for a minute (she did sound like a 12 year old girl) but at the time I felt a little weird about talking to an unknown girl like that and I didn't talk to her again.

Nightfox

In the mid 90s when bbses were in their third wave (very popular but the death of bbsing was near) I was an avid user of bbses and I was the cosysop of many popular boards.

I then setup my own bbs after a bunch of them went down and it became the most popular in my city.

There was a user who was a grown man who called himself 'plastic'.
his fetish was to be wrapped naked in plastic or something like that.
Right away he started messaging people on my bbs who he knew were young.

He probably thought that since he was doing it in the games, it was hard to see or maybe prove in court. he was probably right because these games don't create a chat log and after a person gets an 'in game message' it disappears after they read it.

Anyways, he said 'hi, i'm plastic, etc' and explained what he wanted to do.
I told him he was a pedophile and scared him off.

He started going on bbses in another town, calling long distance (which got expensive back then). I followed him to those bbses and one bbs that
wouldn't get rid of him argued that they didn't want to lose people. this was a pay bbs.

Bedlam hills resort bbs in kenosha.

Oh, i looked him up (I still remember his full name including middle initial, it was burned in my brain even though this was the mid 90s) http://racinedeaths.blogspot.com/2009/04/dennis-r-heusdens.html

Good to see the perv is dead. i hope he didn't hurt any kids but I expect he did. I never reported him to the police because I didn't have concrete evidence and there was a lot of ignorance about bbses and what i was doing.

I thought giving him a good scare would have been effective.

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Quoting Moondog to Cougar428 <=-

Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could
view all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access because we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked
to play games and talk dirty with other board members. We were
concerned for her safety with regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my friend's next door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't
want any part of here. He said she was too crazy

Sounds like you were doing it for a reason, but I imagine some
people do it because they can.

I also got to know a local sysop where I live, but I wasn't a
superuser, I had certain abilities where I could log in and help.
Not enough so that I could screw anything up...

Cougar

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I sent you this and marked it as personal. I have been wondering if
it really is personal and only you would recieve it. I'd hate to
send someone a "personal only" message only to find it went to
everyone in the conference.

It reached here as public. ;)


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I'm not sure many people realized what was going on sometimes. When I was

3

1993), there was a local BBS I was using where another user had contacted me

said she was a girl about my age and said "she" had wanted to meet up and do me stuff, but just a couple days later, I noticed that user's account no

onge

existed on that BBS. I had a feeling the sysop(s) may have seen the message

perhaps that person had done some other things to make it seem they weren't

they said they were.

There was a board or two in the Louisville area circa 1989-92 where I am
pretty sure the sysops had "alter-ego" accounts where they would post as
women or other "crazy" people just to get attention. These "users" would also appear, disappear, and reappear like that.


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Re: biking
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Fri Feb 10 2023 04:49 pm

There was a board or two in the Louisville area circa 1989-92 where I am pretty sure the sysops had "alter-ego" accounts where they would post as women or other "crazy" people just to get attention. These "users" would also appear, disappear, and reappear like that.

I've seen that from some sysops. it's pretty pathetic.

damn we had that one crazy guy here who was posting on dovenet. he had fucking thousands of posts on his bbs that he himself did. he used about 5 different personalities.
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Re: biking
By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Feb 09 2023 04:30 pm

Re: biking
By: Moondog to Cougar428 on Thu Feb 09 2023 12:36 pm

Years ago I had co-sysopaccess on my neighbor's BBS and they could view all messages. Besides being a nice guy, my friend gave me access becaus we had heard from other local BBS's a minor (15y/o girl)liked to play games and talk dirty with other board members. We were concerned for he safety with regards to online predators. We had one younger member, my friend's next door neighbor wh was 16 or 17, and she had met him at a graduation party and had a crush on him. He didn't want any part of her He said she was too crazy

Online safety is definitely a concern, and back when BBSes were in their hey a girl about my age and said "she" had wanted to meet up and do some stuff, e some other things to make it seem they weren't who they said they were.

And before that, when I was 12 and first starting to use BBSes, there was on o her for a minute (she did sound like a 12 year old girl) but at the time I

Nightfox

Interesting. There were a group of board owners, and we knew pretty much everyone through another friend on the board. Everyone advertiseed on other boards. The minor in question was a younger sister or relative of another mem ber, and tried to act more grown up than she was. She thought because she
was anonymous that she could be a little flirty and raunchy. If I didn't
know she was someone's little sister or cousin, I would think she was a
police bait account scouting out guests to appear on "to catch a predator."

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damn we had that one crazy guy here who was posting on dovenet. he had fucking
housands of posts on his bbs that he himself did. he used about 5 different p
sonalities.

There is at least one on fidonet that posts in echoes under two different personas. People call him out on it but he claims they are not the same person.

As for the local guy, he never seemed to be doing it for any sort of harm,
just for amusement, I think. He never posted in the echos like that, just
on his own board.


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ber, and tried to act more grown up than she was. She thought because she was anonymous that she could be a little flirty and raunchy. If I didn't know she was someone's little sister or cousin, I would think she was a police bait account scouting out guests to appear on "to catch a predator."

Geez, she must have been pretty bad then if it was "police bait" material.


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Re: biking
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Fri Feb 10 2023 09:29 pm

damn we had that one crazy guy here who was posting on dovenet. he had fucking thousands of posts on his bbs that he himself did. he used about 5 different personalities.

I think you're referring to "chinaman".
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Re: biking
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Feb 11 2023 10:03 am

There is at least one on fidonet that posts in echoes under two different personas. People call him out on it but he claims they are not the same person.

Several years ago, I saw some messages on a FidoNet echo that a couple people thought my account was a second account of one of my users. And one of them said they thought my real name sounded like it could have been made up. One of them changed the "To" name to mine when replying to one of their messages, and when I saw that message come up in a new-scan, I wondered what was going on.. I replied and said he replied to the wrong person. :P

Nightfox

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Re: biking
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Feb 11 2023 10:03 am

different p
sonalities.

There is at least one on fidonet that posts in echoes under two different personas. People call him out on it but he claims they are not the same person.

As for the local guy, he never seemed to be doing it for any sort of harm, just for amusement, I think. He never posted in the echos like that, just on his own board.

Each person's writing style and vocabulary is like a fingerprint; even when they try to disguise it, that just tips them off.
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Re: biking
By: Digital Man to MRO on Sat Feb 11 2023 11:50 am

Re: biking
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Fri Feb 10 2023 09:29 pm

damn we had that one crazy guy here who was posting on dovenet. he had fucking thousands of posts on his bbs that he himself did. he used about 5 different personalities.

I think you're referring to "chinaman".

Yes, i was referring to him. I didn't know if you had a filter running to shitcan msgs mentioning him.

Ron Scrivani of Poughkeepsie, ny age 78

He also did radio shows with his characters using different voices.
Scarey stuff.

https://www.rememberradio.net/
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Re: biking
By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Sat Feb 11 2023 12:17 pm

Re: biking
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Feb 11 2023 10:03 am

There is at least one on fidonet that posts in echoes under two different personas. People call him out on it but he claims they are not the same person.

Several years ago, I saw some messages on a FidoNet echo that a couple people thought my account was a second account of one of my users. And one of them said they thought my real name sounded like it could have been made up. One of them changed the "To" name to mine when replying to one of their messages, and when I saw that message come up in a new-scan, I wondered what was going on..
I replied and said he replied to the wrong person. :P

Nightfox

that sounds like petty fidonet bullshit.
The rule is you use a real sounding name.
My real last name is so long it wont fit into a field on a bbs, or it
would just be annoying, so i don't use it. also real names are nobody's business unless you are doing business with them as far as i'm concerned.
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