Talk:Bulletin board system

message: Interesting perspectives in The New York Times recently on trades at Burlington Central Arena hockey facility conference swaps of volumes of data. How were the labels coded DECO for full lockbox volume trading on floppies with illegal material including bomb-making data and Rand Corporation Arpanet Vietnam War era files related to the Seattle riots during the 1990's and library public access via terminal? LED BodyBuilding (talk) 09:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  TRS-80 Radio Shack, Modified Police Scanner Access Logs, Touchtone chatline surveillance, 905-689, Law Society Of Ontario 

message: Again access to these files without personal research is near impossible related to US Robotics, baud systems, internal security at Sheraton hotel conference Yorkville Toronto and other systems that we might have to find Bill Gates to explain. How can this section be unadulterated without personal research into this murky underworld? LED BodyBuilding (talk) 09:33, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot Construction, Hudson Bay Hydro Electric Project, Liberal Party malfeasance, remote SatCom access... more 

message: ===== In Flint, Michigan, a 21-year-old man was charged with distributing child pornography through his BBS in March 1996., =====
* This should be rewritten in past tense regarding infiltration by domestic counter surveillance on NDP family access to Ford Oakville.
* A bank colleague friend of mine in North Burlington near the Nelson Quarry has a personal recollection of escort agency internal affairs related to Flint 18 and older strip club access to local Cola wars affiliated business. How this affects the O'Connor (redacted --LED BodyBuilding (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bank Of Montreal access to terminals, WTC Bombing I planning and organization at Toronto, Medical access to malware on terminals with doctor's personal notes on family medical history, House Of Lancaster II, Condominium Real Esate access 

message: * This should be rewritten in past tense regarding infiltration by domestic counter surveillance on NDP family access to Ford Oakville.
* A bank colleague friend of mine in North Burlington near the Nelson Quarry has a personal recollection of escort agency internal affairs related to Flint 18 and older strip club access to local Cola wars affiliated business. How this affects the O'Connor (redacted --LED BodyBuilding (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''In [[Flint, Michigan]], a 21-year-old man was charged with distributing [[child pornography]] through his BBS in March 1996.<ref name="flintj">{{cite news|title=Man Says Kiddie Porno Made Computer Site Popular|newspaper=[[The Flint Journal]]|date=1996-03-20|author=Doran, Tim}}</ref>,'' 

message: A recent edit by user:DesertPipeline added a  template to a footnote claiming that an Automatic Calling Unit was not eceonomically viable. Does anybody have access to ACU prices during the BBS era? --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:43, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Chatul: Wouldn't checking what the prices were violate the no original research policy? If there are no useable sources out there that state what this note states, are we able to leave it in the article? Please let me know your thoughts. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 02:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be legitimate to add a footnote along the lines of "The Bell 801A ACU cost $foo/month at the time." with a source and leave it at that. If the text gave a price, then  in Wikipedia:Citation needed#When to use this tag and WP:BLUE would apply. --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:31, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Chatul: Okay; that sounds reasonable to me. Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 10:23, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economical viability of ACU 

message: The "Presentation" section of this article says "The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix..."
To support this assertion, it cites part of an email to Jason Scott, producer/director of The BBS Documentary, from Scott Lee, a later maintainer of the SkyPix technology. The relevant passage of Lee's email says "This was all around the '87 time frame which I think pegs it as the first graphical point & click BBS UI..." (emphasis added)
This is hardly authoritative. It's just a vague recollection.
(Making it worse, the WP citation lists the publisher as "Jason Scott for Wired Magazine (?)". This is nonsensical. The excerpted email is hosted on Jason Scott's bbsdocumentary.com website, which has nothing to do with Wired.)
In fact, a search of discmaster.textfiles.com for contemporary releases of SkyPix-related software, turns up no evidence in support of a 1987 date. 
For example, the title screen for SkyPaint v1.0 says "1988", not "1987": 
SKYPAINT Version 1.0 - Release
Copyright (c) 1988 by Michael Cox - All rights reserved
SkyPix graphics protocol Copyright (c) 1988 by Michael Cox
Brought to you by INCOGNITO software
The file "AtrTerm.DOC" for Atredes/Skypix "demo term" v1.1 has the following copyright at the bottom of the file:
ATREDES, SKYPIX, and SKYPAINT are Copyright © 1988, 1989
Michael Cox.  All rights reserved worldwide.
Or the "SkyPlay.doc" documentation file for the SkyPlay Skypix File Player:
SkyPlay is Copyright (c) 1989 by Michael Cox but is FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE.
The Skypix Graphics Protocol is Copyright (c) 1988, 1989 by Michael Cox.
The ATREDES BBS SYSTEM is Copyright (c) 1988, 1989 by Michael Cox.
Anyway, I feel like the content of these contemporary files far outweighs Scott Lee's vague recollection nearly 20 years later.
So I would suggest removing this source, and changing 1987 to 1988. 
Also, please note the same problem exists in the Skypix article. I have made the same suggestion in Talk:Skypix.
Kirkman (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with SkyPix date and source