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THE U.C.G.G. NEWS LETTER Dated May 1991 Editor-in-chief: Robin #23
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With special Thanks to:Angel And everyone else who helped make this letter a
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success...
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**************************Leech: The new online game***************************
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By: Robin If you love crashing BBSs, then this is the game for you! You are a
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hacker, and your main objective is to be as much as a nuisance as possible.
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But as you get well known it becomes harder as more people start purging your
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megs. Every time you crash a BBS or a friend you steel there money. Then you
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dial up the LLL, and buy better software and backups. The better stuff you have
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the more money you get.
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ROBIN 23
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***********************************************
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{F.C.C. Crackdown}
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{is is something for underground bbs' to fear?}
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***********************************************
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by: ACID:
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We like to think were cunning, we like to think all the precautions
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we've taken to make our bbs' safely hidden away from those rats in the f.c.c.
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and other groups that I have found to be involved in the <pirate epidemic>
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have worked but are we truly safe? A sysop who shall remain un-named once
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encountered a fellow who claimed he was with the authorities and threatened
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the very existence of not only his bbs but the pirate community altogether,
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most local pirate BBS' needless to say were a little nervous. After all the
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price for loosing this game we play with the law is heavy, it's ring and run
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game now as it is, then to hear that the "man" may be getting close and had
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info on our workings and our network? That was enough to rob us of a little
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sleep. Well this jurk turned out to be some sick kid from a local high-school
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who got his jollys off terrorizing innocent pirates. This time it was only a
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false alarm but we are always alert watchful... one day someone's gona cry
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wolf and he really will be there <let's hope not>
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<-{ACID}->
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*************************************
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Lost Angel's Realm bbs..New Features.
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By: Angel
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Well lost angel's realm just keeps getting better and better.
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We now have auto call back verify and password auto validation for invited
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guests. A special pirates only window so the non-pirates can be denied access,
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to let only serious pirates use the BBS during these times really cuts down on
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the traffic.
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The U.C.G.G. {united cracking groups guild}
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Well I started this unusual concept not too long ago with the idea of uniting
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all the local cracking groups together so they could easily access the others
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help/suggestions/info on cracks sort of like a think tank and share files as
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well, it seems to have gotten of to a great start the u.c.g.g. now has charter
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members from the gerbils T.H.G. I.C.E. A.C.I.D. P.E. P.D.N. the bad dudes
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and the knights <soon to disband> more on there way. If you wish your group
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included in the great melting pot of cracking clubs send a comment to any
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representative from any cracking group on this BBS or contact one of the sysops
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of lost angels realm, make sure the subject is: attention u.c.g.g. or something
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to that effect Well not much more to write about this time but these are
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cranked out ONCE a month so hopefully by the next one we can get more readers to
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submit letters/comments/suggestions....
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{Angel-SysOp of Lost Angel's Realm}
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T.H.G. New Ideas
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by:Dead Zepplin. #2
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Well it's been a while since the ct. chapter joined this BBS,.. And we were
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the first group to join, bringing many others with us. We wish to contribute
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further to this BBS by setting up an online ansi viewer for the cracking group's
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artwork gallery, ANYONE u/ling this util would be greatly apreciated...
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and the secret underground BBS #s list for the entire u.s. and outside countries
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Can't put this next issue more appropriately than the original author so I'll
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just let you read it for your self the next artical callled "The Changing Pirate
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World". <Thanx go out to the authors for puting this togeather>
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\
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Dead >epplin
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*********************** THE CHANGING PIRATE WORLD ***************************
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There've been some complaints this summer about the changes in pirate boards.
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The following was snatched and sent to us from one of the best boards in the
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country. We've been complaining about lamerz for a long while, and it seems
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they are taking over. We've shared this with some other sysops, and they
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pretty much agree that kids, which is a state of mind, not an age, have pretty
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much moved in to tie up lines. Seems there's not a lot of ideas on what to do
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about upgrading the quality of losers, so we thought we'd toss this out for some
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discussion.
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S1: I'm almost ready to quit. Things have not been that great with us and the
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competition is doing pretty good. Lost a lot of good users. Now all I ever get
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are losers or leeches. Getting kinda fed up I guess. . . . Well I and a few of
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the other sysops I know have, it's all going to the kiddies now, we have seen at
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least 30-35 new local pirate boards and about 100 or so new pirate boards
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nationally spring up within the last few months, and they are all pretty much
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15 and 16 year olds who run things pretty shabby in our minds.
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They have hurt many boards including us for competition of callers.
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You will start to see many old timers like us go by the wayside for awhile while
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they clean up, then maybe later on, we might all come back like we did a few
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years ago when the smoke clears.
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S2: Yeh, the number of "kiddie Klubs" grows as the ease of getting modem/pc
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gets more popular, but those I've hit have been so mad! Mostly the games, which
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is fine, but the way that other stuff, what little there is, is uploaded--like,
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just collapsing a hugh file into a single data set and uploading. Geez!
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S1: Get used to it, thats what you will find on most of them from now on, as we
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old guys start to fold our tents up. Many of my friends have been saying that
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when mine and 1 or 2 other boards they call go, that might be the end of their
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calling days for business stuff.
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S2: Yeh, it gets depressing to call some board, struggle for the access and
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find there's nothing there. From the guys I've talked to, they also talk about
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the time, the new stuff coming out and how hard it is to keep on top of it all..
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but these guys are the "neurotic collectors," and not much into using it.
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S1: Thats right, and they usually don't support you after they get what they
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are looking for. Thats what has hurt us. We had some great guys for awhile
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that kept supporting us until they got all the stuff they wanted, then they said
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adios. Plus the pcp cap has hurt...
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S2: Isn't there a law against lamerz, or has that been protected by the
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constitution? I haven't pulled down anything good since school let out in the
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spring and my original disk sources moved home for the summer.
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S1: Yep, most of these new pirate boards are guys back from Illinois U that ran
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campus boards, so they all started up for the summer and have been murdering the
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good boards with their instant access and easy files deals. They have been
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having giant leech parties and all. If I go down, it would be for quite awhile I
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guess, maybe a year or so, depends on how things are I guess. I really hate to,
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but things are so slow, I just can't see wasting the electricity when it goes
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unused all day.
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S1: Well, maybe come the fall, it'll pick up, 'because it does seem to be slow
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all over on nat'l boards....but you're right about the kids going home and
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opening up boards---at least a half-dozen from our school did, but these were
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guys who leeched from boards here, and my guess is will try to leech some more
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when they get home...take the money and run type thing... interests me, they
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usally just tell me how great they are and that whoever they mention can vouch
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for them even though they mention they aren't into files or calling BBS's that
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much. So you can see why I'm a bit hesitant in granting them access,
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besides they never read what I put up for new user access either, so they waste
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both of our time. Now I just usually give access to users here I have talked to
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about a guy who applies first before I go any farther. Thats how I can tell that
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they are either kids or losers since they don't know the ropes, it always glares
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out of what they type when I read these things, comes from years of experience
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sifting thru all this BS. When I find one that looks like a winner, it's like a
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needle in a haystack, happens only once in a long while or wait. Yes and it
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pisses me off very much. As soon as I reopened membership about 6 months ago
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after 2 great years of none of that BS, all of a sudden I'm getting losers
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constantly tying up my line each day recalling for access and it has been
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irritating me a lot. Thats why the number has to be changed at my expense.
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Would go would it be, they'd just tie up the line from guys who were willing to
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upload instead of download, everyone who is willing to pay, is new and has
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nothing, or isn't on any good boards. No this is like CB's. You can get away
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with anything as long as your parents don't know about it and you are anonymous
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from the law. I'm afraid it's a plague that will haunt BBS's for awhile unless
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enough of them start setting up guidelines like I tried to do, and not give them
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access, but as you can see, it doesn't work, when most of the boards are kids
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anyways. Yeh. Well, maybe they'll grow up, except there always seems to be more
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where they came from (grin)....well, it's maybe time to get all the sysops of
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good boards together in a union or something. We have tried many times. It's a
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lost because. Bummer. Can't think of any cheery words of wisdom....just hang in
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there and hope they all get run over by drunken white sox fans, or something.
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They are drunken white sox fans. Yeh well we will hang around at least a
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couple more weeks, then who knows. OK---but if you go down, you'll be missed.
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You just don't know it.
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S1: Well maybe and maybe not, I know there are better boards around, but if they
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are getting half of what we aren't then maybe they will fade also. I hope not.
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Like the Joni Mitchell song..."ya don't know what ya have til it's gone." Well,
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Tell it to the losers. right?
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S2: Geez, how far we've come in tek in just a few years. That's impressive.
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Well, one thing the kids don't have going for them is high tech and perseverance
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Old timers have seen a lot of changes in the pirate world in the last two years.
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Let us know your gripes and opinion.
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>--------=====END=====--------<
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Distributed in part by:Skeleton Crue 415-376-8060 located out of
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Moraga, California.!! Get on the band wagon before it RUNS YOU DOWN!!
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Headquarters for Computer Hackers and Anarchists to Overthrow the State
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(CHAOS)
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********************Hackers and Crashers:How to Protect Yourself***************
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By: **UNKNOWN**
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In today's world of BBS hackers and crashers there is alot to be known about
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how to protect yourself. First it is a good idea to get a virrus scanner for
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files. You should also get one that scans arcives. Set your BBS program to
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record or trap every move a user makes so that should one crash your BBS you
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know who did it. Always be careful about remote shells to DOS. Never let anyone
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EXCEPT for trusted remote sysops shell to dos.
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<unknown>
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***************Adds****************
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Send your Add, we'll put it here....
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Apple IIgs for sale. $1500. Call Batcave BBS at 459-0130 and leave mail to
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the sysop...
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{Robin #23}
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****************End****************
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Thank You very much for reading this. We will have one monthy. To send your
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Articles, I can be reached at Batcave BBS or Lost Angel BBS.
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