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Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions presents . . .
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THE HISTORY OF THE BBS USER
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A Musical Drama in -V- parts
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INTRODUCTION:
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This is the first in a series that may go as long as five parts.
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This file and the other files in this series deal with really young
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computer users with modems, and the dangers of such a combination.
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While I, Dedaparamaxx, actually wrote this file while ROARING
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drunk, it has prompted the sequels that you can find wherever
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Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions files are sold.
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I, myself, don't think this is the funniest of them. In fact,
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looking back on it, I really don't even think it's very GOOD. But too
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many people liked it for me not to take notice.
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So, what did I do? I formed Dedaparmaxxaginos Productions. We
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started out with a staff of two and now have a staff of six. We're
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very proud of our work and have gone on to write other things BESIDES
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the DEAD?.DOC series.
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Even if you don't like this file, you are encouraged to read the
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other DEAD files in this series (to date, there are two others)
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because *I* find them to be a WHOLE lot funnier than this one.
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Of course, you may like this one too, who knows :)
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CREDITS
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Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions (lack-of-good) Management Staff
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Dedaparamaxx: Head writer, head dum kopf, head head.
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Imaginos: Master of cows and demented thoughts.
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Morgan Bluejeans: Cyberspace expert, maker of "big funnies."
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Tempus Fugit: Latin scholar, possessor of "outrageous French
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Accent."
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Sometimes, but not all times, staff writers
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Jeff the Riffer: Evil! Evil! Evil!
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Diskwiz: Cyberspace engineer, editor-in-sleep.
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IF YOU'RE CRAZY ENOUGH TO WANT TO CONTACT US:
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---------------------------------------------
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Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions, LTD, INC, PhD, BS, FTD.
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8009 SW 55th PL
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Gainesville, FL 32608
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No CODs please. We don't like getting fish in the mail. That is
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a REAL address, and any correspondence sent there will be answered
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according to our moods, but it WILL be answered. Letter bombs will be
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returned to sender, unopened. Drugs, money, complements, and general
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ramblings are accepted.
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To receive a group photo of the Dedaparamaxxaginos Productions
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staff, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a quarter wrapped
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in duct tape to the above address.
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Mail may also be sent to mongo@maple.circa.ufl.edu.
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And now, on with the show.
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PART I
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Dear SysOp:
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I am a new uzer. I am ate yearz old and I have just gotten my
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first modem. I like to download lotsa files as long as you don't
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hafta upload in return. Pleez give me access on your bord.
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Joe Blow.
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Dear Joe:
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I have given you minimal access in the kiddie file and message
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areas. We suggest that you learn to spell and learn your proper place
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in this community before attempting higher levels of access.
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SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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I kant figure out how to D/L [note user's discovery of BBS
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abbreviations]. I have tried to use XModem with no sucsess, and then
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I tried ZModem and everything went kablooie. Please help me so that I
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can download your good filez.
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Joe Blow.
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Dear Joe:
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You're an idiot, but we like you. We think you have potential.
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I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to teach you how to use
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the file section, but you're going to learn to use it by UPLOADING
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[imagine teary-eyed face cringed with fear at this prospect]. Next
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time you log on, page me to chat and I'll show you how to upload a
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file.
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The SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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Okay.
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Joe Blow
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[ Transcript of first chat with SysOp follows ]
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Select [M, F, E, C, P, G]: P
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Paging your SysOp! . . . . . . .
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The SysOp is here!
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Hello, Joe!
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NO CARRIER [ Joe hangs up, torn with fear ]
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[ Transcript of second chat with SysOp follows ]
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Select [M, F, E, C, P, G]: P
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Paging your SysOp! . . . . . . .
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The SysOp is here!
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Hello, Joe!
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[ Long pause ]
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Heelo.
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Do you want me to show you how to upload, now?
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[ Another pause ]
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Yes.
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Okay...I'll walk you through it.
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Exiting chat ...
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Select [M, F, E, C, P, G]: F
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Select [U, D, C, L, F, S]: C
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Change to which area? 1
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Changing to upload area (1).
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Select [U, D, C, L, F, S]: U
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Select a protocol
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<X> XModem
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<Y> YModem
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<Z> ZModem
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The SysOp is here!
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Okay, Joe. Tell your program you want to upload by pressing PgUp when
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you want to start the transfer.
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Exiting chat ...
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Select [X, Y, Z]: X
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Enter filename to upload: APROGRAM.ZIP
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Begin your upload procedure...
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1 file(s) transfered successfully!
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The SysOp is here!
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See, that wasn't so hard, was it?
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Nnno.
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Well, to download, you do the same thing in reverse.
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Okay! Cool!
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By the way, what was it you uploaded, anyway?
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I don't know...I got it from one of my friends. It's something called
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a virus.
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NO CARRIER
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Dear Joe:
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I looked at the program you uploaded. If you ever upload a virus
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again, I'll kill you slowly, and your little dog too. You have a lot
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to learn, kid.
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The mildly pissed SysOp
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PART II (one year later)
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Dear SysOp:
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I uploaded those files you asked me for. My upload ratio is now
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better than my download ratio. Can you pleez let me in on some of the
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better file areas?
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Joe
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Dear Joe:
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Okay. I think you deserve it. I'm going to let you into some of
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the other file areas.
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By the way, don't upload anything that has the words "cracked by"
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on it anymore. I could get in big trouble.
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By the way, a protocol is a way to transfer files, not a matter
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of etiquette.
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The SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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Okay. I just thought you might like that game. Something about
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those Amazon Women just appeeled to me.
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Joe
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Dear Joe:
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You skip school to call here, don't you? Can't you call
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somewhere else for a change?
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The SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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You mean there are other BBSes out there? Why didn't you tell me
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about them before?
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Joe Blow
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Dear Joe:
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You never were this annoying before. Try the "Weirdo's
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Hideaway", 555-6543.
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The SysOp
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[ The user does not call for 7 weeks, as he discovers other BBSes ]
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[ Eventually, he decides to call back and batch upload all the warez ]
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[ That he collected on his leech festivals ]
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Dear SysOp:
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I learned how to phreak last week! It's a lot of phun and you
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don't have to pay when you download philes [ it is obvious that the
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kid has been calling California boards, where they spell all "f"
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sounds with "ph"]. Among the warez I'm uploading to you is a program
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called Code Thief. It will help you phreak too!
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Joe
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Dear Joe:
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Phreaking is a bad business. Don't you think they can figure out
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where those calls you are making are coming from? They can. I
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suggest you stop before you get yourself and your parents in trouble.
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Your SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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What's wrong with phreaking? It's not like it's illegal or
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anything.
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Joe.
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Dear Joe:
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You're so full of shit, you stink.
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Your SysOp
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Dear SysOp:
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One of my friends that I met on a board in California [ see! we
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told you ] had something happen to him called "getting busted." What
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does that mean?
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Joe
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Dear Joe:
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It means that he was arrested. Probably for phreaking. He'll
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probably tell the feds that you phreak too in order to get a lighter
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sentence. You're fucked, kid. In fact, I'll probably delete you from
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here in case the feds start sniffing around.
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The SysOp.
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[ When the kid logs on next, he sees the following message ]
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Two four six eight, who do we appreciate?
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NOT YOU, NOT YOU, YEAH!
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Your access has been lowered to sub absolute zero. You are nothing.
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You can do nothing. Don't ever call here again or we'll shoot you
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with lime jello and throw you in a bathtub with Roseanne Barr.
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NO CARRIER
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Just kidding.
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NO CARRIER <click!>
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PART III
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[ About a month later, the kid calls the board under an assumed name ]
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[ By assumed name, I mean that the SysOp can do nothing but assume ]
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[ that it's the little leech. ]
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Dear SysOp:
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I am a new user and would like lots of access so I can upload and
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download. I don't use message bases because I think they're stupid.
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Joe Blow
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[ the kid realizes his mistake in putting his real name and tries in ]
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[ vain to use the message editor so he can remove his name and put ]
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[ in his alias ]
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***
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[ He fails miserably and winds up with: ]
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Joe Blow Assumed Name How the Hell???? NO CARRIER
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W d
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h i I ?
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a d o
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t d
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Dear Joe:
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You haven't learned anything in the past two years have you.
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You're an asshole. If you have a dog, I hope it dies.
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Fuck you.
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Dear SysOp:
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What do you mean? I am a new modem user. I have never called a
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BBS before.
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Assumed Name.
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Dear Assumed/Joe/Whatthefuckeveryournameis:
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You're a little liar. Go to hell and don't ever call here again
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or I'll rape your sister.
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Eat me.
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Dear SysOp:
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My sister's only 5 years old.
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[ SysOp breaks into chat ]
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The SysOp is here!
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That's all the better. I'll bring my shoehorn!!!
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[ Line noise, SysOp is screaming into phone with the wind of the big ]
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[ bad wolf ]
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NO CARRIER
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PART IV, in which the kid stops calling the board for a time to lay
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low. In the interim, the feds have come to his house to question him.
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He cracks under their interrogation and spills everything. The little
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shit names the BBS he has been calling for the last two years as his
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favorite computer hang out. How stupid. He must be a cabbage or
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something.
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After cracking under the pressure of the FBI he calls the SysOp to
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warn him and to make ammends. He fails miserably. NO CARRIER.
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[ After several attempts at logging on under his real name (which has ]
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[ been locked out of the system) he uses the name John Smith (how ]
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[ original...remember the cabbage?) and leaves a message to the ]
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[ SysOp ]
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Dear SysOp:
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I just thought I'd warn you that someone tipped the feds off
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about your board and that they'll be coming to question you about your
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illegal activities. Maybe you should go into hiding.
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Joe Blow,
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Shit...how do you edit a line...fuck fuck fuck.
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Dear Joe:
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You little prick!!!!!! What the hell did you tell them. I don't
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run no illegal board. I think I'll shoot you AND rape your sister and
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kill your little dog, too. As a matter of fact, I'm on my way. Shit,
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there's a knock at the door. It BETTER not be the feds.
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Fuck you eat me suck my dick you little fucker.
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PART V, in which the kid and the SysOp make a court appearance and
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exchange heated words.
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The courtroom is filled with credit card frauders and phreakers,
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much to the SysOp's dismay because it makes him look bad. The only
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thing that keeps going through his mind (driving him nuts) is "Good
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morning, the worm, your honor." He wishes he had a shotgun so he
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could shoot the kid. He does, however, have his shoehorn.
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PROSECUTOR: Mr. SysOp, you have a user on your BBS system named Joe
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Blow, is this correct.
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SYSOP : No, I used to, but I locked the little shit out.
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DEFENSE : Objection your honor, he's a little prick, not a little
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shit.
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JUDGE : Sustained. Mr. SysOp, I will kindly ask you to keep your
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answers truthful.
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[ Welcome to hell. How DO you like it??????? ]
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KID : I'm not either of those things!
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JUDGE,
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PROSECUTOR,
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DEFENSE,
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SYSOP,
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in unison : YES YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!
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[ the kid shuts up ]
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KID : He sells stolen credit cards!
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JUDGE : Is this true, Mr. SysOp?
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SYSOP : Absolutely not! The kid's a liar!
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PROSECUTOR: Your honor, we would like a recess to build a case
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against Mr. SysOp.
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SYSOP : WHAT? You're going to believe this little fucker?
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DEFENSE : OBJECTION!
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JUDGE : Sustained! The court has already established that the
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little fucker is a little prick.
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DEFENSE : Your honor, we move for a mistrial!
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JUDGE : Fuck you, this court is in recess.
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[ The trial drags on and the kid's parents are finded copious amounts]
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[ of money, and the SysOp goes to jail for credit card fraud because ]
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[ the kid couldn't think of anything else to say about the SysOp to ]
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[ save his ass. ]
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EPILOGUE
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Two years later, the SysOp got out of jail, but was promptly sent
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back on charges of raping a seven-year old girl, shooting the kid, and
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killing a little dog. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair,
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but went with a big grin on his face.
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The kid went to hell, where all little leeches eventually go.
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His sister went to hell too, and sold shoehorns for a living.
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THE MORAL
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SysOps: THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! Don't let nine-year-olds on
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your BBSes! Ban the little leech!
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This message was brought to you as a public service by someone
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who KNOWS!
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