user's defamatory statement as well as a
sysop or other user's
Wikimmunity: fitting the Communications Decency Act to Wikipedia
Since the remailer system is premised on the
sysop's implicit promise not to divulge that information, faith in the security of anonymous remailers has been shaken since the
sysop of the most popular remailer, Finland-based anon.penet.fi, was compelled by Finnish authorities to disclose the identities of three user's names.(22) A user may obtain more secure anonymity by "chain-remailing," a method by which users send their e-mail message to one remailer, which in turn sends it to another remailer, and so on.
The World Wide Web and the new world of litigation: a basic introduction
Few cases have been definitive in determining to what extent commercial information providers and
sysops must monitor, or are prohibited from monitoring, electronic traffic.
Anonymity, autonomy, and accountability: challenges to the First Amendment in cyberspaces
Sysops. As experts on the forum's use as well as its subject matter, system operators answer questions and make their own contributions to a discussion.
Dropping in on a CompuServe forum
Handicap News BBS (203) 926-6168, up to 14,400 bps (203) 926-6187 (voice) Wide range of disabilities--50-80 conference areas; Internet e-mail/newsgroups, Fidonet; many conferences helpful to parents, local conference available, although most callers are nonlocal; nearly 1000 files for downloading;
sysop is parent of child who has Down syndrome.
Disability-related electronic bulletin boards
A BBS reflects the interests of the
sysop. Many bulletin boards have a special focus, such as religion or medicine, but most include a generic set of services: discussion areas, file areas, games, and bulletins.
Cruising the information highway: online services and electronic mail for physicians and families
A] Animation L] Organizers B] Business M] Programming C] Disk N] Science & Math D] Education O] Seasonal E] Entertainment Q] Sound F] Fonts R] System H] Graphics $]
Sysop I] Humor S] Telecom/Networking J] Miscellaneous U] Utilities K] Music V] Words-related *] New Uploads Z] Adult Files Reaching Out Through Interchange
MacCircles BBS
For information, contact Peter Larsen, ATLA's BBS system operator (
Sysop), at (800) 344-3023, ext.
Online services alternatives
You can leave a private message to a particular named person, or public message for anyone to read, or a message to the
SYSOP (system operator).
ISGS goes on line
What a given BBS actually offers depends on the system operator, or "
sysop." This person (or persons) maintains the board's hardware and software and decides the hierarchy of menus, conferences, and libraries.
Browsing computer bulletin boards
An example of a clearly unfair use of copyrighted material on the Net would be for a
sysop of a commercial bbs to permit or encourage postings of such things as photographs from Playboy magazine for the comsumption of bbs users.
Copyright's fair use doctrine and digital data
"Hayes announces ISDN
sysop discount program." June: 25.
Electronic distribution of hypermedia on wide-area networking systems: an update
To set up a BBS, all a system operator (
sysop) needs is a personal computer, a phone line, a modem and BBS software.
How Seagate, Seiko Instruments use BBS for business
Interested authors are invited to log on to the BBS and leave a message for system operator (
sysop) Gregory Jackson.
Software for control systems design
Ed Zollars, CPA,
sysop on the AICPA Accountants Forum, says, "I return to Web sites because they have useful information that is updated regularly." Johnson agrees, saying that if you have attention-grabbing content someone will visit you again in a week or two.
If you build it, will they come?