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Post by tboor74 on Mar 11, 2021 16:52:37 GMT -5
Hmmm.....where to look....
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Post by Texas Truth Teller on Mar 11, 2021 17:46:33 GMT -5
Thats not good. You sure it wasnt someone who had access to your computer and typed the message while you were preoccupied with something else? If not, we have a serious problem. No one has access to my computer.
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Post by chivato88 on Mar 11, 2021 20:59:21 GMT -5
I dont want to name names, but I suspect someone...
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Post by leeb on Mar 11, 2021 23:59:54 GMT -5
I dont want to name names, but I suspect someone... If that is aimed at me then forget it...Not Guilty
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Post by RonBk on Mar 12, 2021 1:55:55 GMT -5
As long as this phenomenon has occured only one time and afflicted just one members account, we must asume its a problem with that specific members computer/mobile phone. If there wasnt nobody who had physical access it might be a hacker targeting the computer via a trojan horse or something similar. But if it starts to happen to more members accounts, then we can start looking at a problem with the board itself.
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Post by Wayne Land on Mar 12, 2021 2:59:26 GMT -5
TTT,
Sorry, I just now saw this discussion as I had not been online yet today. A couple of things. First of all, you sign in as a "Guest User". I'm not sure if that prohibits some other person posting using your selected screen name. If you signed up for a membership complete with your own password, I think that would resolve the issue. If not, then let me know and I can ban the user that created that message. Only problem with doing that is, "if" it was someone who hacked into your computer and signed on using "your" computer or your "DNS" address, then that would ban "you" as well as the perpetrator. So for now, let's just wait and see if it happens again. In the meantime, you might like to sign in as a member rather than posting as a guest user.
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Post by chivato88 on Mar 12, 2021 5:16:36 GMT -5
I dont want to name names, but I suspect someone... If that is aimed at me then forget it...Not Guilty Dont worry Leeb your the last person here I think would do this
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Post by tboor74 on Mar 12, 2021 7:36:18 GMT -5
I dont want to name names, but I suspect someone... Ditto
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Post by Texas Truth Teller on Mar 12, 2021 12:20:05 GMT -5
TTT, Sorry, I just now saw this discussion as I had not been online yet today. A couple of things. First of all, you sign in as a "Guest User". I'm not sure if that prohibits some other person posting using your selected screen name. If you signed up for a membership complete with your own password, I think that would resolve the issue. If not, then let me know and I can ban the user that created that message. Only problem with doing that is, "if" it was someone who hacked into your computer and signed on using "your" computer or your "DNS" address, then that would ban "you" as well as the perpetrator. So for now, let's just wait and see if it happens again. In the meantime, you might like to sign in as a member rather than posting as a guest user. Thanks, Wayne. You are an excellent and fair administrator.
If future hacked messages are attributed to me, action may be necessary.
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Post by MissyS on Mar 15, 2021 15:39:31 GMT -5
Is the photo in question the first one that pops up on the link?, because it looks to be a copy of my Avatar pic , if that’s the photo of the alleged Billy Barlow its referring to, I don’t know??, I never posted it anywhere else but the Brushy board, I haven’t seen another reference to it online before because I have at times tried to research it, if there is a source with claims the photo is Billy Barlow I would be most interested, and surprised or shocked.
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Post by RonBk on Mar 15, 2021 15:58:05 GMT -5
Is the photo in question the first one that pops up on the link?, because it looks to be a copy of my Avatar pic , if that’s the photo of the alleged Billy Barlow its referring to, I don’t know??, I never posted it anywhere else but the Brushy board, I haven’t seen another reference to it online before because I have at times tried to research it, if there is a source with claims the photo is Billy Barlow I would be most interested, and surprised or shocked. Where did you find this photo Missy?
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Post by MissyS on Mar 15, 2021 19:34:47 GMT -5
ronnback, I bought the photo maybe 12 years ago on an online auction, when I started getting interested in Old West history, it looks like the frame was made by someone using an old beat up board and was supposed to have spend cartridge shells, horseshoes and old nails that were dug up, if I remember right?, I bought it for those things because I was thinking it nice to own some dug up old west history, but I don’t remember offhand where exactly those things were found however? The photo is made on the board and I can’t take it off to examine it, so it’s hard to get a clear picture without the horseshoes and stuff, but it doesn’t say on the front of it any name , I thought someone just found a photo that goes with the western theme and stuck it there, and I always thought it was a photo of youngster posing and pretending to be a gunslinger?
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Post by RonBk on Mar 16, 2021 0:29:21 GMT -5
Interesting. Is it possible to get a more clear high resolution picture?
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Post by MissyS on Mar 16, 2021 10:21:26 GMT -5
I can’t get it any clearer right now, I don’t think the photo looks all that old, it looks to me like it’s the same thickness as a postcard maybe a little bigger, I could possibly get a general date by that? I wanted to throw out this idea of Billy Barlow, when doing a search for the name it comes up that there was a popular old folk song back in the day called Billy Barlow, I think it may have originated before the Civil war and then variations or changes to the song came later, Billy the Kid loved to sing and he would have more likely been aware of that song and lyrics, so maybe there’s a chance he gave his pal the nickname of Billy Barlow himself because he reminded him of the character in that old folk song and the name stuck with him? Billy Barlow may have been attributed also as a Silly Billy kinda clown in the 19th century? So maybe this man was a little clumsy, or liked to clown around, maybe just a funny kind of sort? Thinking about Billy’s other pals, some kinda had nicknames also Dirty Dave, and Big Foot Tom, were these nicknames given to them also from Billy/Brushy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_Billy levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/049/006
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Post by RonBk on Mar 16, 2021 11:19:18 GMT -5
That certainly sounds like a plausible reason for the name Billy Barlow. I think Ive read somewhere, perhaps here on the board, that Billy Barlow was also used in the same manner as "John Doe". Either way it seems likely that Billy Barlow was not that persons real name. Just like Brushy said it wasnt. If you check out the facebook account of the person who posted that photo (link above) he has another interesting post with a video of two alledged btk-photos. About the Billy Barlow photo, I must say I have some doubts. That guy doesnt appear to have dark skin and a beard?
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