textfiles/bbs/sysfun.txt

    Courtesy of Mutant Offspring
            Sysop Fun
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    First, you must be a sysop.
(Obviously!) Or, you may be at a
sysop's house (When he or she is not
around.)
    Second, you must be VERY popular,
or VERY daring. Either way, your
victim will have a strong tendency
to: a) crash your board, b) hate you,
or c) spread malicious rumors about
you, and, or your board to everyone
in the world that will listen.
    I am going to write about AE
fun first, and then Net-Worx.

                AE Fun
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    So you are bored, and want to
have some fun, huh?
    Go into your room, or wherever
you have your apple, and sit down.
Turn on the monitor, and lets see
if there is a leech on the line.
(-note: if you are the unlucky type,
I suggest that you give this up,
because for all you know, that sysop
of the 20meg board is on your line,
and he's going to be your victim!!)
   Now for some of these pranks, you
will need to make things before-
hand. I suggest you read this through,
and make the necessary mods.

1) This one is probably my meanest
trick, and should only be used on
people like Matt Ackerett.

   Your victim has to be leeching
a game off of your AE for this to
work.
   You wait until your victim is at
his last 2 blocks of memory to go
until the transfer is done, and
you take out the disk.
   This will ruin the >entire<
transmission. It won't piss them off
too bad if it is only 50 or so blocks,
but can you imagine:

Send: Matt Ackerett is a fag
290 blocks
crc=167
<289>

    Note- The victim has to get 290
blocks, you only let the victim get
289!
   At that point, take out the disk!
They have just waited 1/2 hour for
nothing! They can't get the last block
and have to go through the whole
thing again!! Ha ha!
   This is very mean, especially if
they aren't phreaking, they have
been >paying< for it all!


2) If you want to see if the person
on is intelligent...simply let him
catalog your drive once, then when he
is done, take the disk out, and
put in the disk from the other drive.
When they catalog the disk next, it
will be different!
   This will freak them out, they will
think that they have switched to d1
somehow. The victim will then L)og the
drive, and find it still on D2. Wow!
   Hopefully they will catalog D1
anyway, thinking that they were
originally on D1 and it switched.
Now comes the fun.
   Put the right disk back in D2,
and put the disk that used to be in D2
into D1, so they will get the same
catalog.
   Now they are confused. Now
they will catalog D2, and find the
normal stuff. Hopefull they will
read something, now take the disk
out while they are typing in the name,
and slip the other disk in. It
will say 'file not found.'
   Good. Now they will catalog it,
and look! The wares have changed!
Now something is wrong here! They
will say:

hey! stop it!

   Oh no! They are on to your scheme!
But, 1 last joke! Get a copy-protected
type disk, one that you <gasp> bought.
They won't be able to catalog this
at all! Ha!
   If they get mad, they might
say something like:

        Hey! Stop it!

   But will you listen? nnnoooooo!
Take the disk out, and slip something
totally new, preferably the disk that
has "sneakers" or some ancient wares.
Maybe they will think these are the
latest! Watch them post!:

      Hey! I just got some new
      Warez! Do you want to trade??

hah hah!

  Satisfied, you may put the normal
disks back in and walk off to see
some football game.

3) Lock out the space-bar. This will
make it so that they can't type a
<space>. Then, they can't read
anything that requires a space.
Most likely the victim will think that
there is something wrong with >his<
computer. Thusly sending him/her/it
into a 1/2 hour scan of their install
program to see what is wrong.

4) Change the commands...such as:

d)irectory= c)irectory
-           -

   They will have to hack at the
commands! This won't be too funny,
because they won't do anything stupid
like posting:

     hey your commands are screwed!

   Most likely they wont find the
command for 'copy'.


5) lock out the "ctrl-c". This will
piss them off when the victim just
can't exit from posting. Ha!

6) Change the ring count, most, or
almost >all< AE lines are set to
pick up after just 1 ring. Change it
to...say...5 rings, and only tell your
friends that it is at 5 rings. When
they call, they will only wait for
about 2 rings, and hang up thinking
that the line is down. Only the people
you like will get on, because they
will be the only ones to wait 5 rings.
Mean huh?

7) When someone is posting, or c)opy-
ing a message, pick up the voice line,
and blow into the reciever. This will
put all of these weird characters onto
the screen. He will save a gay looking
message, that will make it look like
the victim can't type!!


               Net Works
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   I don't have as many fun tricks
with net-worx as I do with AE, but
here are a couple of my favorites...

1) In the program, make a bug, like
"ctrl-k" that when pushed (like ctrl-t
for chat) it will dump you into basic.
take out the disks, and put in like
the "bare-bones" net-worx disk and let
them have fun reading fake messages,
mail, and passwords. Ooooh! They will
think:

oh yay! I have everyone's pass!

Now, see if he/she will init the
disks, if they do, you know what type
of user it is. If they are nice,
and 'hang' the line for you so that
no one wil be able to get on after,
or they try to beep you, then give
them a level raise.

2) Be a tyrant. Juggle their levels
while they are on. Like break into
chat, change their level, and watch
them get all mad.

3) Break into chat, and just walk off,
leaving a frustrated user sitting
there.

4) break into chat, and change the
time. In other words, leave them
with -10 minutes, instead of 35 or
so.

5) when they log off, and they get
that stupid message about:

            Thank you for
              calling

and all of that, press 'ctrl-c' a
few times, and they will be brought
back. Wow! What happened? Let them
try to log off a few times nd keep
pressing ctrl-c. Finally they should
just press 'reset'. He he!


    I hope you have enjoyed these
little pranks. Your users will hate
you if you do this too often, unless
they are like Matt Ackeret or Little
Al. Then it doesn't matter much.
    Remember! I hold no responsibilty
for people wanting to crash your
system because they are so pissed
at you!
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