From: ducky@yabbs To: all@yabbs Subject: free access et al. Date: Sat Apr 17 14:12:18 1993 just to enlighten some people a little perhaps about why free access via bbses and such to irc & other fun stuff it becoming harder and harder to get. . . basically, it's because stupid people are hacking these systems! this is true for nyx & for several other sites! as more and more members of the public (and thus the bbs hacking community) are getting access to the internet, they are fucking things up for the rest of us. . . the internet is a whole different world from bbses. . .it may be cool on bbses to try to hack stupid systems, because if the sysop figures out that people are hacking his system, he'll just fix it. . .no big loss since the system was prolly not worth using at all anyway. . . but hacking sites which give out free accounts on the internet? come on folks, it doesn't take half a brain to realize that THIS IS A USEFUL SERVICE! hacking these systems, or using them to hack other places is just gonna result in tighter access. . . KD