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BLaH <20> <20> <20> <20><><EFBFBD> <20> <20>
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File <20><><EFBFBD> <20> <20><> <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> Written August 12th, 1992
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#021 <20> <20>ig <20>ong <20><><EFBFBD> <20>nd <20> <20>airy
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<20><><EFBFBD> <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <20><> <20><>
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Presents
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"Very, Very Offended"
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<20> by <20>
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Constantine
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<20> <20><> <20>
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To whom it may concern, not many of you because I am perfectly aware
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how few of you really care about me, indeed, how many of you talk about me
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behind my back and plot to take my life constantly, and that includes the
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FBI agents who inserted a radio in my brain when I wasn't looking, but to
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WHOM it may concern...
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I'm rather ticked off.
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I mean, I rush to BLaH WHQ, all ready and eager to get my latest
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issue of BLaH and soak up some mystic wisdom from our leader, and what do
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I get? A lengthy piece attacking the most sacred convention in bbsing,
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the obnoxious tfile group. I am referring to issue #20, for those of you
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who have your indexes handy.
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This is the file where Guido, a man who I once saw as being up there
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with Bob Dobbs and, yes, even Elvis, DARES to lash out at this honoured
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tradition. Well, Mr. Sanchez, just a few words from an individual who
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APPRECIATES what tfile groups do for our electronic community.
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1: How can you be so cynical? Tfile groups that insist on repeated,
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pointless referances to Neuromancer, cyberpunks and cyberspace are only
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trying to prove one thing-- that most of them have really read an entire
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book. Literary ambitions are important for tfile writers-- witness the
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sad fate of the "Little Engine that was K00L" group.
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2: VERY few tfile groups release things that are not theirs. Plagarism
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is nearly non-existant in the bbs community, as everyone knows. The sad
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truth of the matter is that all of those cyberpunk-novel quotes, misspelled
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compilations of heavy metal and "Weird Al" lyrics, and the like, were all
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originally written by the tfile groups and STOLEN! Strewth! William Gibson
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and Pink Floyd have been doing it for years. What looks like plagarism to
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the untrained eye is actually a clever attempt to reclaim the copyright.
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3: The index-every-eight-issue concept is designed for the aid of tfile
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collectors, who will go to unbelievable ends to keep their precious files
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in order. Personally, I laminate mine and keep every file in a dust-free
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mylar bag with an acid-proof cardboard backing.
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4: Lie about their true headquarters? Shame on you! I don't see what's
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so hard to believe about a bunch of European twelve-year-olds uploading
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5k lyric transcriptions to tiny boards in Buttfuck, Ohio, do you?
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5: Ragging on other tfile groups for no reason is very unprofessional.
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Only snotnose punks like those assholes at MaDCaP do that.
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6: Manipulating people just to get interviewed by Phrack is a waste of
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energy. Manipulate Phrack to get interviewed by Phrack, manipulate people
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to get MONEY.
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7: There's only so much mileage you can get out of "fuck" and "shit". I
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suggest using "pudlicking maggot scum" for emphasis in those sticky literary
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corners.
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But most of all, I am shocked by the contention that most tfile
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writers just do so in order to put another nifty acronym at the end of
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their names-- this is shameless cynicism at its height, no more and no
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less. Until next we speak, I remain,
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Constantine.
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BLaH
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GD
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OTO
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YARBLES
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FTL-INC-NOT
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Rotary Club
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AA
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AAA
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ASPCA
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BS
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SOB
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AADA
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Coven of the Amber Sun
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Elvis Anonymous
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ETC
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ETC
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ETC...
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Please address all fan mail and inquiries to me, care of Phrack
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Magazine. [phrack@stormking.com] Thank you.
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{---End of File, dammit!... Safe-T-Gnads v0.92<EFBFBD>.7b says "5516 Bytes Total"--}
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Uh huh... this file goes out to Guido Sanchez, who writes all of the shit from
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the end of file to the propaganda line.
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BLaH <sigh>ts are, as 'usual'..
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<20>
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Nun-Beaters Anonymous <20> <708>251-5094 <20> 110/16.8k
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Carbon Nation <20> <708>965-8965 <20> 9600/16.8k <formerly Hell Bound, the
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The Insane Asylum <20> <305>927-3028 <20> 2400/16.8k sysop can't make up his
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The Realm Of Death <20> <419>475-3089 <20> 2400/16.8k damn mind>
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<20>
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{---Rebuttal Line. If you've got an opinion, write your own damn tfile------}
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