Anonymity and "Alts" on this board

[Leon]

After banning a member, just now, who has been on the board for quite some time due to possibly bad registration info (will supposedly verify later), and another current member asking about a 2nd login, I want to make a quick post on the subject. On this forum only one registration is allowed. Of course there are those sneaky devils who say they registered 2 id's and are lurking out there, in the hiding. Or someone who crawled under the door, so to speak. To them, I say...kewl. You are awesome.
In order to be a member of this forum each member has to have a good day time contact phone number, and first and last name, on file. There are no exceptions. And to that end, most of the times when an "alt" or troll is found out about it is because one of our 7500+ members sees something fishy and alerts me or another moderator. Thanks to everyone for helping keep this a safe place. It seems to work fairly well. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL ON OUR BST. BTW, my motto in this area is "quick to ban but quick to reinstate upon verification". And a generic Rose Postcard.
Happy collecting!!

[rdwyer]

Thanks for the dedication and hard work, Leon.

[The-Cardfather]

Ditto on what he said!

[The-Cardfather]

Also Leon, I got a kick out of the address on the postcard. Just a name with the city/town & state. I guess it got delivered though.

[HawkFan70]

Thanks for all you do to make this forum the best, Leon!

[njdunkin1]

This post was well-needed. Thank you Leon for keeping our boards clean and safe

[EvilKing00]

Great work! Law and order!

[steve B]

Originally Posted by The Cardfather

Also Leon, I got a kick out of the address on the postcard. Just a name with the city/town & state. I guess it got delivered though.

Woburn wasn't all that big then, just over 15000. So it was probably a second or third class post office. Those didn't start carrier delivery until 1912. Until then you had to go to the post office to pick up all mail. At times they'd advertise mail on hand in the local paper.

The even more fun addresses are the older ones, even from major cities.
Within the town or city so little was needed I've seen ones just addressed like
Sam Smith
City

And yes That's literal, made up name but the address was often just "city" *

Of course I've seen others that got a bit more detailed.
Sam Smith
anywhere,
Some county
Some state
Old state road behind Roberts store near the stone bridge.

It's big fun looking at really old mail sometimes.

Steve B

* This was called "drop mail" as it was dropped off at the post office in the same city. When a letter was 3 cents, for years a letter within the same city brought to the post office only cost 2 cents. Not all mail was delivered, some cities didn't get delivery until 1912 although the big cities had it starting in the 1860's and rural delivery began in 1896.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by The Cardfather

Also Leon, I got a kick out of the address on the postcard. Just a name with the city/town & state. I guess it got delivered though.

Miss Bond's reputation in Eastern Mass was legendary. Her mail was even delivered without postage. She was well aware that the postman always rang twice and she was always ready.

[earlywynnfan]

I hate posts like this because I'm always late to the party and I never know what the heck went down!

Still, glad Leon's kicking ass!

[Jantz]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Miss Bond's reputation in Eastern Mass was legendary. Her mail was even delivered without postage. She was well aware that the postman always rang twice and she was always ready.

I wanted to ask you a question about your comment Frank, but then decided that it is probably better that I don't know.

Keep up the good work Leon!

[the 'stache]

If she looked at all like Lana Turner, no wonder she was legendary!




"I'm not breaking the rules for you anymore, baby. You tell your friends to use stamps from now on. No exceptions!"

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Miss Bond's reputation in Eastern Mass was legendary. Her mail was even delivered without postage. She was well aware that the postman always rang twice and she was always ready.

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Leon, thanks for Net54!

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