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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #692
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`888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8
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888 888 888 888 888 "The Trenchcoat Mafia and Me"
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8
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888 888 888 888 888 " by Neko
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 6/18/99
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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Hail hail hail hail hail hail.
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Bail bail bail bail bail bail.
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Tail tail tail tail tail tail.
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I'm really tired and I'm bored at work so I am going to not fuck with
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my shit in the database like I'm supposed to do and instead I am going to
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tell you how the Trenchcoat Mafia has adversely affected my life.
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Probably everyone knows about these two kids, Dylan and Eric, in some
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city in Colorado that went to their high school and shot their classmates.
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This school shooting rivaled the one last year where the kids pulled the
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fire alarm and then shot everyone as the exited for creativity and planning.
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This kind of shooting was much better than some lameass walk-into-a-school-
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and-pull-the-trigger shooting. Which is actually what this shooting was,
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only they supposedly planned it.
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Anyway, less than 24 hours after the shooting occurred, a website
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went up at www.trenchcoat.org that parodied everything the media was saying
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about the Trenchcoat Mafia. (I'd offer up a copy, but my personal copy
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disappeared when my hard drive crash, and the one I stored on my school unix
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account has had its permissions changed so I can't access it.) They talked
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about the new KMFDM album, the Matrix, and their favorite place to buy
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trenchcoats, Burling Coat Factory. Any reasonable person with a brain could
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figure out that it was a parody, but we all know how many stupid people are
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out there.
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In any case, the trenchcoat.org website said "The man is trying to
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shut us down, we need mirrors!" So I downloaded the html and put one copy
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up on my school account (http://www.iwu.edu/~jheisel/www.trenchcoat.org) and
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one up on my own web server (http://www.adkg.com/www.trenchcoat.org). The
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copy I put on my webserver I listed on Altavista.
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Bad idea #1.
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Soon, I was getting over 1000 hits a day, just for the fake
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Trenchcoat Mafia homepage. An average week for my web site is to serve
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about 1000-1500 pages. I added the Trenchcoat.org page on a Thursday and by
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the time my statistics regenerated the next Sunday, I had served up over
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4000 pages. The following week I served over 15,000 pages. The week after
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that I server almost 5,000, and finally I got back to normal.
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When I saw the number of hits the trenchcoat.org mirror was getting,
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I became jealous. In two days it had gotten more hits than my entire
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website in its 6 months of existence. That did not make me a happy camper,
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so I took the site down and wrote a rant about it
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(http://www.adkg.com/www.trenchcoat.org/rant.html). I received dozens of
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emails (http://www.adkg.com/www.trenchcoat.org/emails.html), some praising
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my actions, some condemning them. In any case, I decided to put up a link
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to the other mirror on my school account.
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Within 48 hours I got an email from a friend at my school. He had
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received an email from a woman who informed him of my trenchcoat.org mirror,
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said she was passing my website on to the FBI and demanded that I be kicked
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out of school. The message was sent to a dozen other people at my school,
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ranging from the president to the dean of students to the admissions office.
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That was Sunday. I didn't know what was going to happen, but I knew nothing
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would happen until Monday.
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Monday night I come home and my sister tells me that D.G., my
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school's dean of students, had called for me. At home. Not at school.
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Home. We were on break. So I wondered if this had something to do with the
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trenchcoat.org shit. She called me at home, after all, and left a message
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to come see her immediately when I came back to school Tuesday. I checked
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my trenchcoat.org mirror on my school account and it said: Forbidden Your
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client is not allowed to access the requested object. ... Oh shit.
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I drove down to school Tuesday and arrived around noon or so and
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found a sticky note on my door that told me to find D.G. and meet her. When
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I finally did this, I found out that the media had found out about my
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trenchcoat.org mirror and had been calling my school all day Monday to try
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and get comments. The dean wanted to warn me that they might call me at
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home. She also wanted to tell me that the school did not give out my home
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phone number. They never called, but I wish they would've. I like playing
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with the media.
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She went on to tell me that the school was still deciding what--if
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any--action to take against me. I told her I meant to take the site down,
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but I was at home and we had a firewall at school that prevented me from
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getting in and changing anything. I also showed her the rant I wrote on my
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own site about why I took the mirror down.
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This all pleased her greatly and she acted very friendly towards me
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from that point on. After a few days of suspenseful waiting she told me
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that the university would not be taking any action towards me. And she
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added that she had shown my website to the PR department here, and they
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might contact me about writing copy for them.
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How fucked up is that?
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #692 - WRITTEN BY: NEKO - 6/18/99 ]
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