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--Short Subjects--
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comp.risks: - wustl archive totally wiped?!?
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- who gets desirable "abc.com" name?
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- fax monitored via discarded ribbons
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kibology: - supermarket surrealism
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comp.sys.mac.*: - gnu emacs finally ported!!!
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- stylewriter-ink *sucks*
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usenet.kooks: - the misc.test followup-trick
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kibology: - life's little lessons
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usenet.kooks: - net kook <-> ham radio kook
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- nietzsche/abian vs the scientific method
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alt.conspiracy: - paying for CIA's 60s brainwashing games
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--Longer Pieces--
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alt.conspiracy
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Did Charles Lindbergh fabricate the kidnapping of his infant son
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in 1932, to conceal his own responsibility for the death???
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Here's an *extremely* fascinating analysis!
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alt.culture.usenet
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Pepsi's plan to overthrow netnews? (a parody by anon)
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news.future
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strn-- the next generation of newsreader from Cliff Adams.
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'scan trn' allows advanced filtering and message rating
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--Subscription info and ftp-archive for Keepers--
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--The Butt of the Book--
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Three short, *very* obnoxious pieces...
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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EDITORIAL POLICY
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"Keepers" is an experiment in netnews message-filtering, a prototype
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that I hope will be widely copied and improved.
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It reflects *only* the tastes of the editor. There is no other common
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thread. The three sections are: short pieces, long pieces, and offensive
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pieces. The offensive pieces, in the great netnews tradition, are
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*extremely* offensive.
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Even if most of the contents are familiar or boring, I hope the few
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remaining interesting and new ones will make it worth the trouble of
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subscribing. (Though I make no guarantees that there will ever be a
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#2!)
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Grateful acknowledgments go to James A. Squires, whose JASBITS is the
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model I'm building on. You can request a sample from:
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jsquires@cerf.net-- use the subjectline: JASBITS FETCH.
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Constructive feedback is very welcome: jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger)
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This issue contains mostly messages posted between Wednesday and
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Friday of last week. Except for the custom graphics, it could have
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been posted Friday. (When trivially simple ascii cut-and-paste tools
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become available, same-day custom graphics will be a cinch!) I tried
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to create a graphic for each piece, from my clip-art archives (some
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are more successful than others). And I tried to keep them to 21 lines
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so they'd display on a single screen using the normal 'more' pager.
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All the art except the USA map is by others. All the fonts except the
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title page were done with a Unix/DOS utility called Figlet. See
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alt.ascii-art for details.
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-Jorn Barger, January 24, 1994
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With this first graphic, I missed by a line:
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== Wustl archive disaster ==================================================
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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8 a-------------a 8
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8 | | 8
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8 | | 8"
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8 | | 8a
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8 "-------------" 8
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_ _ _ _ 8 _ _ _ ,aaaaa, 8
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/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ad":::::"ba 8
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( | w | u | s | t | l | ) ,d::;gPPRg;::b, 8
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\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ d::dP' `Yb::b 8
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8 8::8) (8::8 8
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8 Y;:Yb dP:;P 8
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_ _ _ _ 8 _ _ _ _ `Y;:"8ggg8":;P' 8
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/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ "Yaa:::aaP" 8
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( K | A | P | O | O | S | T | L ) """"" 8
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\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ ,d"b, 8
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\ | / 8 d:::8 8
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\ / 8 8:::8 8
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Translation: 8 8:::8 8
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- **everything** - 8 8:::8 8
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was lost... 8 aaa `bad' aaa 8
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/ | \ """""""""""""""""' `"""""""""' `"""""""""""""""""
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Newsgroups: comp.risks
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Subject: RISKS DIGEST 15.39
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:27:18 -0800
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From: Louis Todd Heberlein <heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Verify your backups
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The message below, from managers of wuarchive.wustl.edu, is one with
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which readers of RISKS should be familiar. How many of us are in the
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same position?
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For those of you who don't know, wuarchive.wustl.edu is one of the
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largest and busiest Internet public archive sites, accessible via
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anonymous FTP and other means.
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----- From /README.NOW in wuarchive.wustl.edu -----
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The entire archives were destroyed the afternoon of Thursday, January 13th
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due to a bug in the system crash dump routines. There have been serious
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problems restoring backups due to a failed tape drive -- we have gotten a
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loaner drive, but there may not be any recent viable backups of the archives.
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Translation: everything was lost, the archive maintainers are scrambling
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to find copies of all of the missing files -- it's probable that some
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files were lost permanently.
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Thanks for your patience,
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The Management
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== Domain-name scam-potential? ============================================
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____________ __________
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/ /\ / /| M M EEEE L '' SSS
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/___________/ \ /__________/ | MM MM E L '' S
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| \ \ / | | M M M EEE L SSS
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| \ \ / | | M M E L S
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| \ \ / | | M M EEEE LLLL SSSS
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| \ \/ | | * *
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| \/ ** | | * * TTTTTT OOO PPPP
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| * * * * | |* * TT O O P P
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| * * * * | * * TT O O PPPP
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...none of these * ** * * * * * TT O O P
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represented the \ * * /|* * * * * TT OOO P
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organizations \ / | * * * *
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I would normally \ / | * * ***| V V AA L U U EEEE
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associate with | \/ | * | | V V A A L U U E
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those names... | | | | | V V AAAA L U U EEE
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| | | | | | V V A A L U U E
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| | | | | | V A A LLLL UUU EEEE
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|___________| / |___________|/
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Newsgroups: comp.risks
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Subject: RISKS DIGEST 15.39
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:29:10 CST
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From: Matt.Cohen@chron.com (Matt Cohen)
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Subject: Risks of Domain Names
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At the end of December, after NBC Nightly News announced an address for
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Internet email - "nightly@nbc.com" - I wondered if the other US television
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networks had also established an Internet presence. A quick check of the
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Domain Name Service revealed the existence of "abc.com", "cbs.com", and
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"fox.com".
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A search in the InterNIC registration database showed that none of these
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represented the organizations I would normally associate with those names.
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Instead of TV networks, I found a design firm, a consultant, and an online
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service.
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The obvious risk is that of mistaken identity.
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Less clear is the impact that such "misleading" email addresses may have on
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the way people do business. Increasing numbers of people do much of their
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professional interaction via email. Email addresses are appearing on business
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cards and becoming as accepted as postal addresses. The domain name portion
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of an email address is coming to represent an organization.
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Domain names are given out on a first-come-first-served basis. This raises
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several questions. Will large companies consider "misleading" domain names to
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violate their trademarks? Will "misleading" domain names matching those or
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large companies be registered with the intent of receiving compensation
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for them when the companies eventually come on the Internet?
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Not all the networks have been lagging behind, by the way - the Public
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Broadcasting Service ("pbs.org") has been on the Internet for over a year.
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== Fax-ribbon evidence =======================================================
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:#::::::##:#:#:##::##::###:##::###:###:###:###::#::#:#::##:::::###:#:#:###:#:
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::#::::#:::#:#:#:#:#:#:#:::#:#::#:::#:::#:::#::#:#:#:#:#:::::::#:::#:#:#:#:#:
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:#::::::#::#:#:##::##::##::##:::#:::#:::#:::#::#:#:#:#::#::::::##::#:#:#:#:#:
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::#::::::#:#:#:#:#:#:#:#:::#::::#:::#:::#:::#::#:#:#:#:::#:::::#:::#:#:#:#:#:
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"...x cartridges from the trash, unravel the carbonized ribbon and recon..."
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Newsgroups: comp.risks
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Subject: RISKS DIGEST 15.39
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 08:19 EST
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From: Sanford Sherizen <0003965782@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Harvard Case of Stolen Fax Messages
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This is dated but worthwhile for readers of RISKS. The Boston Globe of
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December 15 published an column by Alex Beam about an academic battle over the
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Harvard Semitic Museum. The Museum has an outstanding collection but was
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recently closed down, leading to very public battles involving many
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celebrities. What caught my eye in Beam's description of the controversy is
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the following quote:
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"Stager (the museum's director) instructed his secretary to remove used fax
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cartridges from the trash, unravel the carbonized ribbon and reconstruct the
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staff's facsimile transmissions, to monitor surreptitious fund-raising. (This
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little trick won't work on modern laser-printed fax machines, in case you're
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getting any ideas.)"
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"Stager 'talked to the (Harvard) general counsel's office, and asked them if
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it was against the law," his assistant, Eileen Caves, told the Harvard
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Crimson. They 'classified the carbon as ''abandoned material that was left in
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a public place'' and said it was therefore public information."
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Risks? It may have happened at Harvard, it may be possible to reconstruct
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messages, and it may be why lawyers should be buried 35 feet underground
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since, deep down, they are very nice people.
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Sanford Sherizen, Data Security Systems, Natick, MA
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== Supermarket surrealism ==================================================
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_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________
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| ___________ | | ___________ | | ___________ | | ___________ |
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|| | \_/ | || || | \_/ | || || | \_/ | || || | \_/ | ||
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|| | o.o | || || | o.o | || || | o.o | || || | o.o | ||
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|| ==( _ )== || || ==( _ )== || || ==( _ )== || || ==( _ )== ||
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||--U-----U--|| ||--U-----U--|| ||--U-----U--|| ||--U-----U--||
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||___________|| ||___________|| ||___________|| ||___________||
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|-------------| |-------------| |-------------| |-------------|
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alt.religion.kibology #16936 (44 more) [1]--[1]
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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
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[1] Toys--now in 1-D!
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Organization: HappyNet Headquarters
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Date: Wed Jan 19 00:09:20 CST 1994
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Lines: 17
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Remember my post about the fifties "men's" magazine ad for
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"100 TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOYS"? I've found even more awesome toys for
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your young ones.
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Seems Hartz has decided that its cat toys don't look special enough
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compared to the competition. Next time you're at the supermarket,
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hotfoot it over to the pet supplies aisle and look for Hartz's
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INTERACTIVE cat toys. These include interactive Bizzy Balls and the
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famous interactive sack of catnip on a string.
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Yes, INTERACTIVE cat toys. Unlike boring ol' cat toys where your cat is
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only allowed to LOOK at them on a rigidly-ahdered-to schedule--
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INTERACTIVE cat toys permit the cat to PLAY with them!!!
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Coming soon: interactive cats!
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-- K.
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End of article 16936 (of 16981) -- what next? [npq]
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== For Mac users: GNU emacs! ================================================
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_____ _____ _________
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____ / \ / _ \\_ ___ \ ______
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_/ __ \ / \ / / /_\ / \ \/ / ___/
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\ ___/ ==/ Y / | \ \____ ==\___ \
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\___ > \____|_ \____|___ \______ / /____ >
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\/ \/ \/ \/ \/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #11
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comp.sys.mac.apps #51363 (2 + 0 more) (1)--(1)--[1]+-(1)
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From: jmoor08@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu (Jennifer Moore) |-[1]
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[1] Re: ANNOUNCING GNU EMACS FOR THE MACINTOSH \-[1]
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Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
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Date: Fri Jan 21 09:06:28 CST 1994
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Organization: Emory Law School
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Lines: 36
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In article <CJz3L5.2Ht@lysator.liu.se>, ingemar@lysator.liu.se (Ingemar
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Ragnemalm) wrote:
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> jorn@MCS.COM (Jorn Barger) writes:
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>
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> >In article <1994Jan16.014538.5692@cs.cornell.edu>,
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> >Marc Parmet <parmet@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
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> >>I have ported GNU Emacs 18.59 to the Macintosh. It is available using
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> >>anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu, in directory pub/parmet. The
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> >>current Macintosh port version is 1.12d. You are welcome to try it out.
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>
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> >A thousand thanks to Marc! Today, the Mac has become a grownup computer...
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> >;^/
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>
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> By getting yet another 70's-style editor to it? Come on.
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>
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> Is this port well Macified, or is it (like MicroEmacs) a total alien that
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> breaks every user interface rule? Does it have menus, scrollbars, full mouse
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> support, cut/copy/paste etc? If not, then it's just for the Unix-freaks and
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> should be avoided.
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Menus - yes
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Scrollbars - no
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Full mouse support - no
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Cut/Copy/Paste - yes
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It is not for every Mac user. However, If you miss GNU Emacs and all the
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super lisp libraries that you have on your workstation, this is the editor
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for you. I haven't tested many of the lisp libraries that I've
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accumulated, but C indenting works, as does dired mode, ispell, and
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calendar.
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I am very impressed by the work that Mac has done and dearly hope that he
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will be able to improve Mac Emacs with v19 features.
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Cheers
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== For Mac users: Stylewriter-ink sucks =============================
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,_,_,_,_,_,_,_
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"...Water based ink. / /|
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Document handling instructions: / / )
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No sneezing allowed... /_,_,_,_,_,_, / |
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Do not water your plants. | ,_,_,_,_,_, ) (
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Wear rubber gloves..." (| (| |
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/ ~ |) |( )
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.==-==-==-===-=-===-==-=./ ~ )| )| |
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) ::.::::::.:::::: ::: ( |(_,_,_,_,_,_|) (
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| :::.:::.::::::{] :.: | ( ,_,_,_, | /
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( ---=----=-- ::. ) | (_,_,_,_) ( /
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`-~--~---~----~---~--~--' )_,_,_,_,_,_,_|/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #11
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 17:14:47 +0200
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From: michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein)
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Subject: Stylewriter vs Deskwriter
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I have meant to write this note for a while...and if it helps one person
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make a better printer decision than it will serve its purpose.
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Note: All the opinions expressed herewith are mine! All mine!
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I decided to buy a Stylewriter II over a Deskwriter for a bevy of reasons
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most important of which was the fact that the drivers would always be up to
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date.
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I have since then regretted that decision daily. I look enviously at my
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collegues with Deskwriters for the following reasons that have superceded
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any concerns about driver software.
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a) Water based ink. Document handling instructions:
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No sneezing allowed. Do not eat an apple (whoa!) anywhere in the vicinity.
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No drinking. Do not drop on the floor. Do not take outdoors. Do not water
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your plants. Wear rubber gloves.
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I LOVE the environment but this ink is insane. What are people out there
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doing? Photocopying everything they print so that they will have
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respectable documents?
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b) The feed mechanism often eats, mangles and spits back paper.
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c) I often want to print a single page on letterhead or envelopes. Not only
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is the procedure inconvenient but exponentially raises the rate of mangling
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in (b) above.
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If I had to do it all over again I would buy a Deskwriter without a
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picosecond's hesitation....
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I hope this helps someone out there...
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== Ascii art break ==========================================================
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alt.ascii-art #3527 (1)--[2]
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From: jorn@MCS.COM (Jorn Barger)
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[2] Re: New US map! Now w/added statenames
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Date: Fri Jan 21 02:53:24 CST 1994
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Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
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Lines: 27
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US map with added state names:
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,__ _,
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\~\| ~~---___ , | \
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| Wash./ | ~~~~~~~|~~~~~| ~~---, VT_/,ME>
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/~-_--__| | Montana |N Dak\ Minn/ ~\~~/Mich. /~| ||,'
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|Oregon / \ |------| { WI / /~) __-NY',|_\,NH
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/ |Ida.|~~~~~~~~|S Dak.\ \ | | '~\ |_____,|~,-'Mass.
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|~~--__ | | Wyoming|____ |~~~~~|--| |__ /_-'Penn.{,~Conn (RI)
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| | ~~~|~~| | ~~\ Iowa/ `-' |`~ |~_____{/NJ
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| | | '---------, Nebr.\----| IL|IN|OH,' ~/~\,|`MD (DE)
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', \ Nev.|Utah| Colo. |~~~~~~~| \ | ,'~~\WV/ VA |
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|Cal\ | | | Kansas| MO \_-~ KY /`~___--\
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', \ ,-----|-------+-------'_____/__----~~/N Car./
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'_ '\| | |~~~|Okla.| | Tenn._/-,~~-,/
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\ |Ariz.| New | |_ |Ark./~~|~~\ \,/S Car.
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~~~-' | Mex. | `~~~\___|MS |AL | GA /
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'-,_ | _____| | / | ,-'---~\
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`~'~ \ Texas |LA`--,~~~~-~~,FL\
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\/~\ /~~~`---` | \
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\ / \ |
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\ | '\'
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`~' -jorn
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End of article 3527 (of 3556) -- what next? [npq]
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= Everything-you-say-is-so-obnoxious-funny-true-and-mean Dept. ==============
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a)lias, C)opy, c)hange folder, d)elete, e) O / /\ /\ \ O y, m)ail
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n)ext, o)ptions, p)rint, q)uit, r)eply, s \ / \ / \ / r e(x)it
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O O O
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Command: ...For budding misc.test wannabe's, I would recommend posting to
|
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rec.music.country.western saying that "YOU ARE ALL HICKS"...
|
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|
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[The netnews equivalent of the whoopie cushion is to set your followups-line
|
||
to misc.test, a group that's specially designed to track message propagation
|
||
by sending replies automatically from dozens of sites worldwide. Here, a
|
||
devotee of this prank discusses fine points of style and history...]
|
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alt.usenet.kooks #328 (10 more) |-(1)
|
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From: carasso@Inference.COM (dr. carasso) \-(1)--(1)-
|
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.usenet. -(4)--[4]
|
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+ kooks,talk.bizarre,news.admin. -( )--( )--( )+-(6)--(9)
|
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+ misc,alt.fan.roger.david.carasso \-[6]
|
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[4] Re: the net.legends draft FAQ (3/6) -[8]
|
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Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,alt.usenet.
|
||
+ kooks,talk.bizarre,misc.test,comp.sources.amiga,news.admin.misc,
|
||
+ alt.fan.roger.david.carasso
|
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Date: Thu Jan 20 04:56:15 CST 1994
|
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Organization: West Chico Hills Community College, ESL Lab IV
|
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Lines: 36
|
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|
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rissa@world.std.com (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
|
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>dbd@martha.utcc.utk.edu (David DeLaney) writes:
|
||
>>etc. A recent news.admin.misc post suggests that this practice (which
|
||
>>gives unsuspecting followers-up a deluge of autoreplies from newsdaemons
|
||
>>worldwide) originated with one "Carasso" (q.v.) in the late 80s.
|
||
>
|
||
>The news.admin.misc article is wrong -- this particular net.game
|
||
>was in practice long before Carasso showed up on the net.
|
||
|
||
I cannot prove that I originated it. I can confirm, however, that I
|
||
raised it to an art, and made it very popular. In effect, I am a
|
||
popular artist.
|
||
|
||
For budding misc.test wannabe's, I would recommend posting to
|
||
rec.music.country.western saying that "YOU ARE ALL HICKS", then set
|
||
the followup to rec.music.country.western, misc.jobs.offered,
|
||
misc.test, and rec.humor. The hicks will be too stupid to notice the
|
||
follow change and post; the misc.job.offerees will be so
|
||
narrow-mindedly anal in reminding people that the newsgroup is only
|
||
for job listings and post; and the rec.humorees will throw in a heap
|
||
of newbie college freshmen into the mix.
|
||
|
||
Garnish with beak.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Roger David Carasso,
|
||
Founder of the Internet
|
||
|
||
|
||
Roger Carasso ______________________GOD IS MY MODERATOR_____
|
||
My thoughts are my own and do not represent Inference Corp.
|
||
_______________Will betray country for food_________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
End of article 328 (of 335) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
== The inspirational-lite korner =========================================
|
||
|
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alt.usenet.kooks #323 (15 more) --(1)--(1)+-(1)+-[1]--[1]
|
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.usenet. | \-(1)
|
||
+ kooks,alt.religion.kibology \-[1]
|
||
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) +-( )--(1)--(1)
|
||
[1] Re: the net.legends draft FAQ (6/6) |-( )--(1)
|
||
Organization: HappyNet Headquarters \-( )--(1)+-(1)
|
||
Date: Wed Jan 19 02:35:06 CST 1994
|
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Lines: 29
|
||
|
||
In alt.usenet.kooks article <CJuB5L.I96@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
|
||
Daniel B Case <dcase@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
|
||
> joe@zikzak.apana.org.au (Joe Slater) writes:
|
||
> >Kibo would be a kook if he were to develop his own posting style. A "K."
|
||
> >signature doesn't count. If grepping his newsfeed weren't such a cool
|
||
> >idea I wouldn't count "responding to messsages mentioning Kibo" as a
|
||
> >decent preoccupation. It's too self-conscious.
|
||
>
|
||
> That's why the list is known as "net.legends", not "net.kooks". Kibo, as I
|
||
> suggested, is in a class by himself.
|
||
|
||
A class by myself!
|
||
|
||
Not only am I the class clown, I'm also THE TEACHER! Whoops, I used
|
||
ALL-CAPS! Now I'll have to give myelf corporal punishment! *WHACK!*
|
||
|
||
I was thinking today that there are certain basic life skills they should
|
||
teach in elementary school which are sadly lacking in our culture.
|
||
Each of these would take only five seconds or so of curriculum but would
|
||
make our world better in a major way. I.e., "Don't swallow the
|
||
microphone if you grow up to be a subway announcer." "Look at the
|
||
orange unit prices in the market." "Red cars don't get you dates."
|
||
"Electric stoves suck." "They'll tell you the wrong three primary
|
||
colors in fifth grade." "Neckties are not required." "Lawns are more
|
||
work than they're worth--PAVE!" "Preheating the oven is not necessary."
|
||
"Kool-Aid is all the same flavor." "Hold chopsticks near the far end."
|
||
"People can be easily manipulated by a simple sentence."
|
||
|
||
-- K.
|
||
End of article 323 (of 335) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
== Net kook AND Ham-radio kook ==========================================
|
||
|
||
alt.usenet.kooks #361 (10 more) +-(1)
|
||
From: wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu \-(1)+-(1)
|
||
+ (William VanHorne) \-(1)--(1)--[1]
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.usenet.
|
||
+ kooks +-[1]
|
||
[1] Re: the net.legends draft FAQ (6/6) |-(1)+-(1)
|
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Date: Fri Jan 21 07:01:58 CST 1994
|
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Organization: The Ohio State University
|
||
Lines: 24
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Jan21.024341.29118@midway.uchicago.edu>,
|
||
Ted Frank <thf2@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
|
||
>In article <watson.759110980@bellatrix.sce.carleton.ca> watson@sce.carleton.ca
|
||
(Stephen Watson) writes:
|
||
>>[deletia concerning Jack Schmidling's lawn]
|
||
>>Are you sure it's the same guy?
|
||
>
|
||
>One hundred percent positive.
|
||
|
||
Jack Schmidling is not just a Usenet kook and a suburban-Chicago lawn kook,
|
||
he is an internationally famous amateur radio kook also. Anyone remember
|
||
Jacks old .sig trumpeting his "ARF" (Amateur Radio Forum) on 14.313 MHz?
|
||
Jack managed to use roughly 40 lines of text in that baby.
|
||
|
||
Anyway, Schmidling & Co. staked-out 14.313 as their personal turf and
|
||
set up a swearing/yelling/threatening encounter group that, due to the
|
||
magic of ionospheric propogation, interfered with the normal activities
|
||
of amateur radio operators worldwide. The last I heard, the FCC had
|
||
cracked-down on the 14.313 mob, issuing $10,000 fines and such, and the
|
||
frequency seems to be rather quiet now. Anyone know if Jack got caught
|
||
up in the drag net? Is that why he is now the master.loon of rec.arts.
|
||
brewing rather than rec.radio.amateur.misc?
|
||
|
||
---Bill "it's important to know these things" VanHorne
|
||
|
||
End of article 361 (of 368) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
|
||
== Nietzsche/Abian vs the scientific method =================================
|
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|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
'''''
|
||
[A. Abian is a contemporary netnews science-kook.]
|
||
|
||
alt.usenet.kooks #368 (11 more) [1]
|
||
From: davidv@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
|
||
[1] Explaining Abian: Net.zsche
|
||
Date: Thu Jan 20 20:03:44 CST 1994
|
||
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
|
||
Lines: 71
|
||
|
||
Well, folks, my main account gets this group just in time for that
|
||
machine to go down for maint for the night. Sigh.
|
||
Anyway, after a little thought, I have figured out that Alexander Abian
|
||
is a scientific Nietzsche, in a way. And I don't simply mean this as an insult
|
||
to Nietzsche.
|
||
Seriously, Abian's approach to science is remarkably similar to
|
||
Nietzsche's approach to morality, even if Abian doesn't come out and say it
|
||
himself (apologies if this comparison has already been done, by the way). To
|
||
Nietzsche, there were two basic ways to look at morality: Master Morality and
|
||
Slave Morality. Master Morality (in case anyone on a.u.k. doesn't know
|
||
already) is the morality of the noble, the strong...those with the greatest
|
||
Will to Power. Such masters set their own standards of right and wrong, and
|
||
they were Allowed, because they had that special virtue needed to be able to
|
||
decide what was right and wrong: will to power, nobility in Fred's eyes. Slave
|
||
Morality, on the other hand, is the morality of the masses, of the downtrodden,
|
||
it demands that all be treated nicely and with charity and so forth. Needless
|
||
to say, a Master finds Slave Morality despicable and anti-life.
|
||
Just as Nietzsche's Master Morality applies to his ethics, so it also
|
||
applies in a way to Abian's scientific method. Instead of Will to Power as the
|
||
primary virtue, Abian establishes imagination and elegance. "IMAGINATION IS
|
||
EVERYTHING, THE REST IS DETAIL" is one of his favorite quotes. If you have the
|
||
proper imagination and vision, it is your perogative to determine what
|
||
scientific truth is, in this Master Science viewpoint. On the other hand, most
|
||
current science is a sort of Slave Science...it demands proof that can be
|
||
accessed by all, it demands that anyone can reproduce a result. In short, the
|
||
ideal is that anyone can do science. Bottom-up scientific method...you need
|
||
not have the virtue of imagination to perform modern science (but it does
|
||
help). People who go around proposing things right out of their heads without
|
||
following the "Slave Science" rules are called kooks, and alternately feared
|
||
and loathed. To quote Nietzsche, from "Beyond Good and Evil," "According to
|
||
slave-morality, therefore, the 'evil' man arouses fear; according to the
|
||
master-morality, it is precisely the 'good' man who arouses fear and seeks to
|
||
arouse it, while the bad man is regarded as the despicable being." Nietzsche
|
||
uses despicable to mean anti-life, against the Will to Power. You may see in
|
||
this quote the anthem of all kooks everywhere, distilled into "You disagree
|
||
because you fear I'm right."
|
||
The Master is not to be criticized by the Slave in Nietzsche's system.
|
||
For it is truly only the Master who has the right to make ethical decisions,
|
||
the slave morality is at best a cruel sham, at worst a deliberate insult to
|
||
life itself. Similarly, the visionary "Master Scientist" will never allow his
|
||
theories to be submitted to the rigors of mainstream science, for such science
|
||
lacks the primary virtue of imagination. For how can such little men judge a
|
||
giant? Those with the Master point of view see themselves as giants among
|
||
Lilliputians...tiny men with tiny minds. They think of things like proof and
|
||
reproducibility as crutches for charlatans who are intent on keeping their
|
||
place in the center stage and crowding out the true geniuses. They feel
|
||
vindicated by cases where the Master visionary *was* right despite conventional
|
||
science...it has happened numerous times throughout history, after all.
|
||
However, their fatal mistake is to assume that all one needs to do to
|
||
become one of the Masters is to seize the high ground. Any assaults on their
|
||
position after that are simply seen as vindication of their rightness...why
|
||
would anyone attack them if not out of fear that the self-styled Master was
|
||
right? Even Nietzsche doesn't propose master-morality be followed by all: it
|
||
is to be followed by masters, and always should be. You don't become a master
|
||
by believing in master-morality...you attain the ability to exercise
|
||
master-morality upon becoming a master. Likewise, you do not become a
|
||
visionary by assuming the kind of proof-denying stance Abian has, you must
|
||
first be a true visionary. Then you can get away with bypassing proof. }->
|
||
Many net.kooks follow this Master pattern, but Abian is definitely one
|
||
of the clearest examples in his flat out refusal to accept the validity of
|
||
conventional science. Most other net.loons don't assault the entire framework
|
||
of science, they simply say the results were suppressed, or are slightly
|
||
outside the bounds of conventional science, or whatever. Abian denies science
|
||
entirely, and logic as well. He feels himself some kind of Uberphysik,
|
||
divinely able to discerne the truth by fiat and imagination. Perhaps he is
|
||
right. But I doubt it....
|
||
|
||
Dave Van Domelen, "It is inaccurate to call USEnet an electronic
|
||
bulletin board. However, certain parts of it can be accurately described as
|
||
electronic restroom walls." - Me, after noting similarities between the Jesus
|
||
arguments on, well, most groups right now, and on the stall walls here....
|
||
End of article 368 (of 368) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
|\**/|
|
||
\ == /
|
||
= | | =
|
||
| |
|
||
\ /
|
||
\/
|
||
|
||
== Canadian government pays off brainwashing-survivors ===================
|
||
|
||
/\
|
||
___ / \ ___
|
||
o-----o / \ __ / \ __ / o-----o
|
||
|\ |\/ \ / \ _ / <()> \ _ / \ / |\ |\
|
||
| o---+-o \_/ \_/ \_/________\_/ \_/ \_/ | o---+-o
|
||
o-+---o |__________________/__I___I___\________________o-+---o |
|
||
\| \| o-----o /_I___I___I__\ o-----o \| \|
|
||
o-----o |\ |\ /I___I___I___I_\ |\ |\ o-----o
|
||
| o---+-o /___I___I___I___I\ | o---+-o
|
||
o-----o o-+---o | /__I___I___I___I___\ o-+---o | o-----o
|
||
|\ |\ \| \| /_I___I___I___I___I__\ \| \| |\ |\
|
||
| o---+-o o-----o /I___I___I___I___I___I_\ o-----o | o---+-o
|
||
o-+---o | /___I___I___I___I___I___I\ o-+---o |
|
||
\| \| /__I___I___I___I___I___I___\ \| \|
|
||
o-----o /_I___I___I___I___I___I___I__\ o-----o
|
||
|
||
alt.conspiracy #37413 (2 + 0 more) [1]
|
||
From: zodiac@ionews.io.org (Zodiac)
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia,alt.activism,alt.drugs,alt.conspiracy
|
||
[1] Can. Govt. Pays CIA "Brainwashing" Victims
|
||
Date: Fri Jan 21 07:39:27 CST 1994
|
||
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-3783 Voice: 416-363-8676
|
||
Lines: 105
|
||
|
||
Found this wedged into page A24 of the Jan. 19 _Toronto Star_:
|
||
|
||
*
|
||
|
||
OTTAWA (Southam News Wire) -- The government has paid almost $7 million
|
||
in compensation to the unwitting guinea pigs of federally funded
|
||
brainwashing experiments in Montreal in the 1960s.
|
||
|
||
That figure may increase as justice department officials sort through
|
||
about another 50 applications from people who say they were patients of
|
||
the late Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill University's Allain Memorial
|
||
Institute.
|
||
|
||
Jan. 1 was the deadline for applications for the $100,000 payments
|
||
announced in 1992 by then-justice minister Kim Campbell.
|
||
|
||
Although there are believed to be only 80 patients who received
|
||
Cameron's full "depatterning treatment" -- weeks of drug-induced sleep
|
||
followed by massive electroshock treatments, reducing the patient's mind
|
||
to a childhood state -- 329 applications for compensation were received,
|
||
justice department lawyer Lou David said.
|
||
|
||
So far, 69 people have received the lump-sum payments, while 214 were
|
||
rejected, Davis said. Another 46 are still being reviewed by a
|
||
four-member justice committee and Ontario Blue Cross which first screens
|
||
applications.
|
||
|
||
*
|
||
|
||
The article doesn't scratch the surface of this story -- though I'm glad
|
||
they at least ran the settlement notice.
|
||
|
||
What is missing? The _why_. Why did Cameron do these horrid experiments
|
||
on unsuspecting patients?
|
||
|
||
A: As part of CIA research into "brainwashing".
|
||
|
||
In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA was powerfully interested in psychiatric
|
||
reports suggesting that LSD could break down behavior patterns, for this
|
||
raised the possibility of "reprogramming", or, colloquially,
|
||
brainwashing.
|
||
|
||
Let me quote you a few paragraphs from Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's
|
||
1985 book, _Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion_ that
|
||
deal directly with Cameron and the Montreal experiments:
|
||
|
||
If LSD temporarily altered a person's view of the world and
|
||
suspended his belief system, CIA doctors surmised, then perhaps
|
||
Russian spies could be cajoled into switching loyalties while they
|
||
were tripping. The brainwashing strategy was relatively simple:
|
||
find the subject's weakest point (his "squeaky board") and bear
|
||
down on it. Use any combination or synthesis which might "open the
|
||
mind to the power of suggestion to a degree never hitherto dreamed
|
||
possible". LSD would be employed to provoke a reality shift, to
|
||
break someone down and tame him, to find a locus of anonymity and
|
||
leave a mark there forever.
|
||
|
||
To explore the feasibility of this approach, the Agency turned to
|
||
Dr Ewen Cameron, a respected psychiatrist who served as president
|
||
of the Canadian, the American, and the World Psychiatric
|
||
Association before his death in 1967. Cameron also directed the
|
||
Allain Memorial Institute at Montreal's McGill University, where he
|
||
developed a bizarre and unorthodox method for treating
|
||
schizophrenia. With financial backing from the CIA he tested his
|
||
method on 53 patients at Allain.
|
||
|
||
The so-called treatment started with "sleep therapy", in which
|
||
subjects were knocked out for months at a time. The next phase,
|
||
"depatterning", entailed massive electroshock and frequent doses of
|
||
LSD designed to wipe out past behavior patterns. Then Cameron
|
||
tried to recondition the mind through a technique known as "psychic
|
||
driving". The patients, once again heavily sedated, were confined
|
||
to "sleep rooms" where tape-recorded messages played over and over
|
||
from speakers under their pillows. Some heard the message a
|
||
quarter of a million times.
|
||
|
||
Cameron's methods were later discredited, and the CIA grudgingly
|
||
gave up on the notion of LSD as a brainwashing technique. But that
|
||
was little consolation to those who served as guinea pigs for the
|
||
CIA's secret mind control projects. Nine of Cameron's former
|
||
patients have sued the American government for $1,000,000 each,
|
||
claiming that they are still suffering from the trauma they went
|
||
through at Allain. These people never agreed to participate in a
|
||
scientific experiment -- a fact which reflects little credit on the
|
||
CIA, even if the Agency officials feared that the Soviets were
|
||
spurting ahead in the mind control race. The CIA violated the
|
||
Nuremberg Code for medical ethics by sponsoring experiments on
|
||
unwitting subjects.
|
||
|
||
Ironically, Dr Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that
|
||
heard the case against Nazi war criminals who committed atrocities
|
||
during World War II.
|
||
|
||
*
|
||
|
||
Faith in psychiatry.
|
||
|
||
(For those interested in the fuller story of the CIA's interest in LSD,
|
||
I will follow-up this post with the ascii-transcribed chapter this
|
||
snippet was taken from.)
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
"Don't HATE the media... | K.K.Campbell
|
||
beCOME the media!" --*-- <zodiac@io.org>
|
||
- J. Biafra | . . . . cum grano salis
|
||
|
||
End of article 37413 (of 37422) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
\
|
||
--Y>
|
||
= /) =
|
||
.!)L
|
||
|
||
== Did Charles Lindbergh kill his own child??? ===========================
|
||
/\/\
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\ / /\/\
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/\/\ \/ \ / /\/\
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/\ /\ \ / \/ \ //\ /\
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/ \/ \ \/ _______________ \// \/ \ /\/\
|
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\ / / \ \ / \ /
|
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/\/\ \ / / \ \ / \/
|
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\ / \ / // \/\ \ / /\/\
|
||
\/ \/ \| XXXX XXXX | / \/ \ /
|
||
| XXXX XXXX |/ \/ /\/\
|
||
"Lindbergh was /\/\ | XXX XXX | /\/\ \ /
|
||
known for cruel \ / | X | \ / \/
|
||
practical /\/\ \__ XXX __/ /\/\\/
|
||
jokes..." \ / |\ XXX /| \ /
|
||
/\ /\ \/ | | | | \/ /\/\
|
||
/ \/ \ | I I I I I I I | \ /
|
||
\ / | I I I I I I | \/
|
||
\ / \_ _/ /\/\
|
||
/\/\ \ / \_ _/ \ / /\/\
|
||
\ / \/ \_______/ \/ \ /
|
||
\/ \/
|
||
|
||
Article 36455 of alt.conspiracy:
|
||
From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy
|
||
Subject: Conspiracy for the Day -- January 14, 1994
|
||
Date: 13 Jan 1994 23:17:32 GMT
|
||
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
|
||
|
||
[Followups to alt.conspiracy]
|
||
|
||
Conspiracy for the Day -- January 14, 1994
|
||
============================================
|
||
("Quid coniuratio est?")
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
::For various reasons, "Conspiracy for the Day" will soon be::
|
||
:: posted *only* to alt.conspiracy. Look for "CfD" there. ::
|
||
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||
|
||
Today's "Conspiracy for the Day" (CfD) was written especially for
|
||
the readers of CfD by Carol Wallace. The subject today deals with
|
||
the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby back in the 1930s. Carol
|
||
Wallace is an expert on the subject, having written her master's
|
||
thesis on the Lindbergh kidnapping as well as being widely read
|
||
in the history of that era. Wallace wrote her doctoral
|
||
dissertation on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal of 1921. She teaches
|
||
Mass Media Law, with a special interest in notorious trials and
|
||
publicity. Regarding the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, she
|
||
says, "I love this topic, and am glad to discuss it anywhere."
|
||
She can be reached at Wallacec1@jaguar.uofs.edu
|
||
|
||
The Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby
|
||
by Carol Wallace
|
||
Copyright (c) 1994 by Carol Wallace
|
||
All Rights Reserved
|
||
EXCLUSIVE to "Conspiracy for the Day"
|
||
|
||
"...comparisons between Lindbergh and Hauptmann --that the two men
|
||
were very similar in an unbelievable number of ways, physically,
|
||
through life and family history, etc. ...it was as though
|
||
Hauptmann was the dark side of Lindbergh. But, if the latest
|
||
theories have any validity at all, it seems as though Lindbergh
|
||
was the real dark side."
|
||
|
||
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
|
||
|
||
On March 1, 1932, Ollie Whateley, butler at the Charles Lindbergh
|
||
home in Hopewell, New Jersey, called the local police to report
|
||
that the Lindbergh's infant son had been stolen. Within hours,
|
||
local and state police, plus press and ordinary sensation seekers
|
||
were all over the grounds. While local police saw a crude
|
||
ladder, built in sections, lying near the window from which it
|
||
appeared the baby had been taken, and two grooves where the
|
||
ladder had rested, most other footprints and possible clues were
|
||
obliterated in the rush to investigate the rain-soaked grounds.
|
||
|
||
Lindbergh, hailed as the great American hero after his historic
|
||
New York to Paris flight in 1927, took charge of the
|
||
investigation himself. He refused to allow other members of the
|
||
household to be questioned. According to him, the child was
|
||
discovered missing when his nursemaid, Betty Gow, went in to
|
||
check on him and found the crib empty. She reported this first
|
||
to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the child's mother, then they went to
|
||
Colonel Lindbergh's room.
|
||
|
||
"Do you have the baby?" asked Anne. Lindbergh denied having the
|
||
child, and accompanied his wife to the nursery.
|
||
|
||
The crib was empty. Lindbergh turned to his wife. "Anne," he
|
||
said. "They have stolen our baby."
|
||
|
||
Instructing his wife and Betty Gow to remain where they were,
|
||
Lindbergh shouted to the butler to phone the police, grabbed a
|
||
rifle, and raced outdoors. When the butler came to report, he
|
||
found Lindbergh sitting in his car. Lindbergh asked the butler
|
||
to drive into town and buy a flashlight, so that he could
|
||
investigate. But before Whateley could do so, the police arrived.
|
||
|
||
Lindbergh led them straight to the window under the child's room,
|
||
pointed out the discarded ladder, and led them to the prints
|
||
which the ladder had left, and a footprint. According to police
|
||
reports, he was very calm and collected.
|
||
|
||
He then led the police upstairs to the nursery, where he pointed
|
||
to an envelope resting against the window. He told police that
|
||
he had ordered that it not be touched until a fingerprint expert
|
||
could be summoned.
|
||
|
||
The envelope was opened in the presence of the police.
|
||
Anonymous, it bore an elaborate coded symbol as a signature, and
|
||
claimed that the writer and associates were holding the child for
|
||
ransom and would communicate the particulars later. The letter
|
||
appeared to have been written by someone foreign, probably
|
||
Germanic.
|
||
|
||
The fingerprint expert found no prints on the envelope or letter.
|
||
Nor did he find any on the window, or the child's crib. He
|
||
didn't even find Lindbergh's prints, or those of the nursemaid or
|
||
Anne Lindbergh, who had searched the room before police arrival
|
||
(incidentally, failing to notice the ransom note .)
|
||
|
||
Over the next several months, Lindbergh continued to spearhead a
|
||
most unusual investigation. He rejected the FBI's offer of
|
||
assistance, but called in Morris Rosner, a member of the
|
||
underworld. Claiming that he was convinced that the kidnapping
|
||
was the work of organized crime leaders, he asked Rosner to
|
||
circulate the ransom note and see if he could get any information
|
||
from his underworld connections.
|
||
|
||
Soon after, Lindbergh received a call from Dr. John F. Condon of
|
||
the Bronx. Condon had placed an ad in the Bronx Home News
|
||
offering to add his $1000 life savings to the ransom money if the
|
||
child would be safely returned. Condon told Lindbergh that he had
|
||
received a note from the kidnappers, appointing him the go-
|
||
between for the ransom negotiations. Lindbergh accepted this,
|
||
and it was Condon, operating under the code name of Jafsie, who
|
||
went to the cemetery where the transfer of money was supposed to
|
||
take place. Condon, on his second visit, turned a wooden box
|
||
containing $50,000 in gold certificates to a man whom he called
|
||
"Cemetery John."
|
||
|
||
John, he claimed, was of medium build, with a pointy face, high
|
||
cheekbones, slanted, dark, almost "oriental eyes", and a cough.
|
||
His accent sounded either German or Slavic, although Jafsie
|
||
claimed that he attempted some German, but "John" did not appear
|
||
to understand.
|
||
|
||
Although the money was delivered as instructed, the child was not
|
||
returned. Instead, Jafsie was given a letter which gave
|
||
directions to the childs supposed location on "boad Nellie (the
|
||
allegedly Germanic spelling of "boat.") A determined sweep of
|
||
the area where boad Nellie was supposed to be found nothing.
|
||
|
||
The search for the child ended on May, 12, 1932, when a truck
|
||
driver, stopping to relieve himself in the woods about two miles
|
||
from the Lindbergh home, found the decomposed body of an infant
|
||
partially buried in a pile of leaves. The child's sexual organs
|
||
had been eaten away, but there was evidence of a skull fracture,
|
||
as though the child had been dropped from a ladder. Although the
|
||
Lindbergh family physician could not make a positive
|
||
identification, Lindbergh, after a 90 second inspection where he
|
||
counted the corpse's teeth, identified the body as that of his
|
||
son. The kidnapping had now officially become a murder.
|
||
|
||
The search for the criminal continued for two years. Then a
|
||
German-born carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann , with high
|
||
cheeckbones and a pointy face, but fair and blue-eyed, was caught
|
||
passing one of the bills from the ransom money. Hauptmann was
|
||
arrested and charged with the kidnapping.
|
||
|
||
In what has since been termed the Trial of the Century, Hauptmann
|
||
was convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair, where he died
|
||
proclaiming his complete innocence.
|
||
|
||
The fact that $18,000 of the ransom money was found in
|
||
Hauptmann's garage acted strongly against him. Hauptmann claimed
|
||
that he found the money in a package left with him by his
|
||
business partner, Isador Fisch, before Fisch left on a trip to
|
||
Germany. Fisch died there, of tuberculosis. While cleaning a
|
||
leaking closet, Hauptmann rediscovered the box, and discovered
|
||
that it was full of waterlogged bills. He claimed that he took
|
||
these to his garage and began to dry them, hiding each bundle as
|
||
it dried. Fisch, he said, owed him $7,000, so he felt entitled
|
||
to keep and use that portion of the money in the box. Police and
|
||
reporters labeled this "the Fisch story."
|
||
|
||
Many legal experts and researchers believed Hauptmann, but could
|
||
not save him from the electric chair. There were too many holes
|
||
in the case, too many unanswered questions. But in the 60 years
|
||
since then, four major theories have emerged about what really
|
||
happened in Hopewell New Jersey that day in 1931.
|
||
|
||
The first is that Hauptmann was guilty. A variation of that was
|
||
that he was guilty, but had not acted alone.
|
||
|
||
The last two theories are more startling. In 1993, two books
|
||
came out claiming that there never had been a kidnapping; that
|
||
Lindbergh and his family were actually covering up a killing.
|
||
|
||
The premise that the kidnap was a coverup appears to answer many
|
||
of the questions that the arrest and execution of Hauptmann
|
||
raised. Much of the evidence against Hauptmann was
|
||
unsatisfactory; much of it was plainly manufactured. And much of
|
||
Lindbergh's conduct during the trial is, in hindsight, very
|
||
peculiar. A quick review of the basic questions answered and
|
||
left open, will demonstrate this.
|
||
|
||
|
||
HAUPTMANN
|
||
|
||
Hauptmann was convicted basically on 7 points of evidence.
|
||
|
||
1. He had $15,000 of the ransom money, and explained it away
|
||
with the "Fisch story." Since Fisch was conveniently dead, there
|
||
didn't appear to be any way to confirm this.
|
||
|
||
However: $30,000 of the ransom money remains undiscovered to
|
||
this day. And almost $3,000 in gold certificates were turned
|
||
into the bank when the county went off the gold standard by one
|
||
JJ Faulkner. Faulkner was the known pseudonym of a convicted
|
||
master forger, Jacob Novitsky (a man with a pointed face, dark
|
||
complexion and dark, almost oriental eyes) who bragged to his
|
||
cellmates of his involvement in the extortion of the ransom. Just
|
||
before Hauptmann's execution, Faulkner wrote to New Jersey's
|
||
Governor Hoffman claiming that they had arrested the wrong man.
|
||
|
||
2. Police found, at the site of the crime, a 3/4" chisel. When
|
||
they examined the toolbox of Hauptmann, a carpenter, they claimed
|
||
that he had no 3/4" chisel, but that this would be standard
|
||
equipment for any competent worker. Forty years later, crime
|
||
reporter Anthony Scaduto checked the archives of the New York
|
||
police, and found not only the chisel found at the scene of the
|
||
crime, but two more, wrapped in a brown bag labeled "Found in
|
||
Hauptmann's garage."
|
||
|
||
3. Two witnesses came forward to say that they had seen
|
||
Hauptmann in the Hopewell area the day of the crime. A foreman
|
||
from the Majestic Corp., for which Hauptmann claimed he was
|
||
employed on that day, brought forth a time card purporting to
|
||
show that he had not been at work. If Hauptmann was working, he
|
||
would not have had time to get to Hopewell within the correct
|
||
time framework to commit the crime.
|
||
|
||
a. One of the witnesses who placed Hauptmann at the scene was
|
||
legally blind. In the prosecutor's office, he identified a vase
|
||
of flowers as a woman's hat. Yet he claimed to be able to
|
||
recognize the face of a man going by in a car. The second was a
|
||
known pathological liar who denied categorically that he had seen
|
||
anything unusual until the offer of a reward was announced.
|
||
|
||
b. Police had these witnesses pick Hauptmann from a line-up.
|
||
The line-up consisted of the blond, slight Hauptmann, a burly
|
||
and very Irish detective, and a policeman still in uniform.
|
||
Hauptmann was the only one who even resembled the description of
|
||
"cemetery John" given by Jafsie.
|
||
|
||
c. On the time card which allegedly showed that Hauptmann had
|
||
not worked that day, all other workers who were absent were
|
||
marked with a line of zeros. Hauptmann's line was marked with
|
||
blots, suggesting that something beneath had been blotted out.
|
||
|
||
4. Dr. John F. Condon identified Hauptmann in court as the man
|
||
with whom he negotiated the ransom.
|
||
|
||
Until his appearance in the courtroom, Condon refused to identify
|
||
him; at one point, on record, he said that it was definitely not
|
||
"cemetery John."
|
||
|
||
5. In court, the prosecution produced a board from Hauptmann's
|
||
closet which had scribbled on it Jafsie's phone number.
|
||
Hauptmann couldn't recall writing it there, but conceded that
|
||
since it was in his closet, maybe he did, because he had been
|
||
interested in following the case.
|
||
|
||
A reporter for the New York Daily News later bragged to fellow
|
||
reporters that he had written the number there himself, on a day
|
||
when there was no fresh news in the case and his editors were on
|
||
his back for front page material.
|
||
|
||
For those who doubt this, consider two things. Hauptmann had no
|
||
phone. If he was using a pay phone to contact Jafsie, he probably
|
||
would use something more portable than a closet board to record
|
||
the number on. Also, to see the number, one had to remove both
|
||
shelves in the closet and stand in the back using a flashlight.
|
||
Hardly convenient for quick and unobtrusive reference.
|
||
|
||
6. Police claimed to have found a missing board in Hauptmann's
|
||
attic which matched the wood in the kidnap ladder. This
|
||
"missing" board was discovered after several previous searches.
|
||
And when the board in question was matched against the piece it
|
||
was allegedly cut away from, it proved to be thicker than the
|
||
board still in the attic floor. This caused New Jersey's
|
||
governor, Harold Hoffman, to make an open accusation that the
|
||
evidence had been falsified.
|
||
|
||
7. The piece of evidence that apparently carried most weight
|
||
with the jury was Lindbergh's identification of Hauptmann's voice
|
||
as the same one he heard in the cemetery . This was a voice that
|
||
Lindbergh heard, only once, two years earlier, from a distance of
|
||
several hundred feet, shouting only 5-6 syllables -- either "hey,
|
||
Doc! Over hear" or "hey Doctor, over here." Most experts
|
||
expressed great doubt about the validity of this identification,
|
||
but the jury was impressed.
|
||
|
||
Another point in Hauptmann's favor was the ladder itself. It was
|
||
very crude, causing most people who knew woodworking to believe
|
||
that no carpenter had ever made it.
|
||
|
||
Consider, too. William Randolph Hearst, who instructed his
|
||
reporters to cover the trial in a manner that would light a flame
|
||
of indignation in people everywhere, then paid for Hauptmann's
|
||
defense lawyer, Edward J. Reilly. Reilly was suffering from
|
||
syphilis which caused his institutionalization several months
|
||
later, he routinely had several martinis at lunch during trial,
|
||
and spent less than 40 minutes in consultation with his client.
|
||
He was paid up front, regardless of the outcome of the trial.
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE "GANG"
|
||
|
||
There is clear evidence that more than one person was involved in
|
||
the collection of the ransom. In the files of the Bronx police
|
||
dept., Anthony Scaduto found an FBI document giving Lindbergh's
|
||
description of a dark, swarthy man with a rolling gait who acted
|
||
as lookout for cemetery John.
|
||
|
||
This was never brought out at trial. Kidnap notes always
|
||
referred to plural collectors, which may or may not have been a
|
||
rhetorical device to mislead investigators. However, when
|
||
Lindbergh called Morris Rosner in to help the investigation,
|
||
Rosner showed copies of the original note to many members of the
|
||
underworld. Contemporary handwriting experts appear to concur
|
||
that the first ransom note was written by a different person than
|
||
those that followed. (There were people willing to testify to
|
||
that effect during Hauptmann's trial, but they were not permitted
|
||
to testify, since that would have ruined the "lone killer"
|
||
scenario.)
|
||
|
||
Jafsie relates that, during one phone conversation with the
|
||
Scandinavian (both Condon and the cabdriver who delivered the
|
||
ransom-collector's note to Condon originally stated that the man
|
||
was Scandinavian, not German) he heard another voice in the
|
||
background shouting "Statto cito" [shut up, in Italian.]
|
||
|
||
Given the peculiar construction of the kidnap ladder, it would
|
||
have been impossible for a single person to descend the ladder
|
||
with the child. First, it would not hold more than 160 pounds
|
||
without breaking, according to police tests. The child would add
|
||
an extra 30 pounds. Second, the rungs were so awkwardly spaced
|
||
that it would take all but an extremely tall person two hands to
|
||
descend.
|
||
|
||
If Hauptmann (or Fisch) acted alone, where is the rest of the
|
||
ransom money? And how did Jacob Novitsky, alias JJ Faulkner, get
|
||
at least $3000 of that money?
|
||
|
||
|
||
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
|
||
|
||
The latest theories claim that there was no kidnapping at all;
|
||
that the kidnap story was devised as a way to cover-up the guilt
|
||
of a member of the Lindbergh family. In this theory, the ransom
|
||
collection was separate from the death of the child; it was an
|
||
attempt by underworld figures to cash in on the Lindbergh's when
|
||
they were in a vulnerable position.
|
||
|
||
Many researchers have questioned Lindbergh's behavior throughout
|
||
the investigation. Burdened by their belief in the original
|
||
premise -- that there was a kidnapper at large who must be
|
||
treated carefully so that he wouldn't harm the child-- they
|
||
explained this behavior as both fear of criminal reprisal and an
|
||
attempt to protect his wife. Scaduto seemed to question this
|
||
protective instinct, despite his apparent acceptance of a
|
||
kidnapping theory. Lindbergh was not the tender protecting type.
|
||
He was given to cruel practical jokes, and was essentially a
|
||
rather cold person. The cover-up theory, however, explains
|
||
Lindbergh's behavior, and a few other questions unanswered by the
|
||
arrest and conviction of Hauptmann.
|
||
|
||
1. Why would a kidnapper choose to steal the child during hours
|
||
when household members were still awake and obviously moving
|
||
around the house?
|
||
|
||
2. How did the kidnapper get down the ladder carrying a 30 pound
|
||
child? At the time of their original investigation, police
|
||
insisted that the criminals must have exited through the house,
|
||
and initially suspected a member of the household.
|
||
|
||
3. Why were there NO fingerprints at all in the child's room?
|
||
Anne Lindbergh and Betty Gow both admited to searching the room
|
||
when they first discovered that the child was missing, but when
|
||
police arrived on the scene, their fingerprints were missing,
|
||
too..
|
||
|
||
4. Why did the two women not see the ransom note during their
|
||
search of the room, so that Lindbergh was able to spot it when he
|
||
reentered? And why was it left on the windowsill, when the
|
||
criminal was already burdened with the child, instead of in the
|
||
crib, which would have been the logical place to put it? And, on
|
||
discovering that his child was missing, how could any loving
|
||
father have ordered that the note be left untouched, and leave it
|
||
so for two full hours until a fingerprint expert arrived to open
|
||
and read the note?
|
||
|
||
5. Why did the family dog, Whagoosh, prone to barking at the
|
||
slightest disturbance, not bark on the night of the crime? And
|
||
why, when the entire staff and Anne Lindbergh testified that the
|
||
dog always barked at disturbances and at strangers approaching
|
||
the house, did Lindbergh deny this?
|
||
|
||
6. Why did Lindbergh refuse the offer of help from the FBI, and
|
||
consistently refuse to allow police to carry out routine
|
||
investigative procedures, then call in members of the underworld
|
||
to help the investigation?
|
||
|
||
7. Why, after Lindbergh observed Hauptmann shouting "Hey,
|
||
Doctor" did he wait 10 days before deciding that Hauptmann's was
|
||
the voice he had heard in the cemetery?
|
||
|
||
8. Why did Lindbergh refuse to allow police to question his wife
|
||
or household staff following his report that the child had been
|
||
stolen?
|
||
|
||
9. How, if he had no flashlight, did Lindbergh manage to lead
|
||
the police straight to the marks left by the ladder in the ground
|
||
beneath the nursery window?
|
||
|
||
10. How would an outside criminal know that the Lindberghs were
|
||
at the Hopewell house that Tuesday, when they had never before
|
||
stayed longer than Saturday through Monday?
|
||
|
||
11. How did the alleged kidnappers know exactly which window
|
||
were the child's, and of those, which one was warped so that it
|
||
wouldn't latch? This fact could not be determined by routine
|
||
surveillance.
|
||
|
||
These questions made many people suspicious, even at the time of
|
||
the investigation. If Lindbergh had not been the superhero of
|
||
his times, they would not have been brushed aside so easily;
|
||
today it is almost certain that he or a family member would have
|
||
led the list of suspects. But, in 1931, Lindbergh symbolized all
|
||
that Americans most claimed to value, so any thought of possible
|
||
conspiracy was dismissed as unthinkable.
|
||
|
||
However, there are two theories that appear to answer the above
|
||
questions.
|
||
|
||
The first, presented in Noel Behn's "Lindbergh: The Crime", is
|
||
that the child was murdered by Anne's sister, Elizabeth Morrow.
|
||
Charles Lindbergh originally courted Elizabeth, and the press
|
||
reported rumors of an engagement. However, Elizabeth flew to the
|
||
aid of an ailing brother, and when Lindbergh paid a return visit
|
||
to the Morrow home, only Anne was there. They began to court,
|
||
and married. Elizabeth had a mild heart attack following this
|
||
news, and there is some evidence of a nervous breakdown.
|
||
|
||
After the birth of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., several disturbing
|
||
incidents led his parents to give strict orders that the child
|
||
was never to be left alone with Elizabeth. Household servants
|
||
all filed affidavits that Elizabeth Morrow killed the family dog,
|
||
and once threw young Charlie out along with the household garbage.
|
||
|
||
According to Behn's theory, the staff DID leave Elizabeth alone
|
||
with Charlie. And, to avoid further disgrace, further hounding
|
||
of the family by the press, the family spent two days dreaming up
|
||
a way to cover up the crime. The kidnap story was the result; the
|
||
fact that Morris Rossner's display of the kidnap note sparked an
|
||
extortion scheme played right into the plans, since it appeared
|
||
to confirm that there really was a kidnap gang out there.
|
||
|
||
Elizabeth Morrow was institutionalized soon after the crime.
|
||
Gossip about her possible involvement persisted, at least in low
|
||
key whispers at least through the 50s. However, to accept this
|
||
theory, one must also accept that not only Lindbergh but the
|
||
entire Morrow family, and the staffs of both households were
|
||
involved in the cover-up, and that they all lied on the witness
|
||
stand, knowingly sending an innocent man to his death.
|
||
|
||
The second theory, on its face, is even more incredible:
|
||
Lindbergh himself killed the child in the course of a practical
|
||
joke. Lindbergh was known for cruel practical jokes. He often
|
||
filled bunkmates beds with lizards and other reptiles; on one
|
||
occasion he put a snake in the bed of a man who was terrified of
|
||
them. Asked if the snake had been venomous, Lindbergh replied
|
||
"Yes, but not fatally." He also filled a friend's canteen with
|
||
kerosene and watched him drink it; the man was hospitalized for
|
||
severe internal burns. And, only two weeks prior to the reported
|
||
kidnapping, Lindbergh hid the child in a closet then ran to his
|
||
wife's room, claiming the child had been stolen. He let the joke
|
||
go on for 20 terrifying minutes before confessing.
|
||
|
||
In "Crime of the Century", Ahlgren and Monier theorize that
|
||
Lindbergh tried that joke one too many times. In their scenario,
|
||
Lindbergh called home to say he would be late, but actually
|
||
arrived at the usual time. He climbed his makeshift ladder to
|
||
his son's room, planning to spirit the child out and arrive at
|
||
the front doow with him in hand, claiming something like "Look
|
||
who I met in New York." Unfortunately, the ladder broke,
|
||
Lindbergh slipped, and the child's head was smashed against the
|
||
side of the house. Lindbergh then hid the body, went home,
|
||
failed to check on his young son even though the child had been
|
||
sick, and spent some time in his study alone before Betty Gow
|
||
reported the child's disappearance. Ahlgren and Monier speculate
|
||
that Lindbergh wrote the original ransom note during this time.
|
||
Most experts agree that the wording of the note was typical of an
|
||
English speaking person trying to sound Germanic, rather than of
|
||
a real German.
|
||
|
||
To accept this theory, as amazing as it may be, is somewhat
|
||
easier than to believe the charge against Elizabeth Morrow. The
|
||
great American hero was above suspicion. Police would never think
|
||
to check his alibi, to see why he arrived home an hour later than
|
||
usual that night. Nor did they hesitate to follow his orders
|
||
throughout the investigation, although they, not Lindbergh, were
|
||
the trained investigators.
|
||
|
||
An analysis of Lindbergh's character makes this sort of practical
|
||
joke a strong possibility; that he could cover it up so
|
||
successfully can be attributed both to the awe in which he was
|
||
held, and the successful diversion of the ransom note. Much of
|
||
Lindbergh's more peculiar behavior can be attributed to
|
||
understandable moments of panic.
|
||
|
||
In the late 1930s, when Lindbergh openly associated with Nazis,
|
||
and made many public statements about the desirability of a
|
||
Master Race here in America, there were some fitful rumors that
|
||
Lindbergh had killed his own child because it was genetically
|
||
defective -- retarded. As war and memory faded, these whispers
|
||
died down. Baby boomers, if they knew much about the case at
|
||
all, tended to hear it from the perspective of Lindbergh, the
|
||
vulnerable hero; his later politics forgotten.
|
||
|
||
There is no proof that Lindbergh in fact killed his own child;
|
||
however, the theory answers questions left open by Hauptmann's
|
||
arrest and execution. And in this theory, only one person had to
|
||
keep a dreadful secret and perjure himself. If true, however,
|
||
Lindbergh is guilty not only of the death of his son, but of the
|
||
cold and deliberate murder of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy for the Day."
|
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-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Today's conspiracy brought to you by.......
|
||
Brian Francis Redman
|
||
...................................................
|
||
: Aperi os tuum muto, :
|
||
: et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. :
|
||
: Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, :
|
||
: et judica inopem et pauperem. :
|
||
: -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 :
|
||
:.................................................:
|
||
(bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) (bigxc@prairienet.org)
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
|
||
Article 2628 of alt.culture.usenet:
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services, alt.flame, alt.censorship, alt.wired,
|
||
alt.2600, alt.activism, alt.culture.usenet
|
||
From: an16061@anon.penet.fi
|
||
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 08:26:28 UTC
|
||
Subject: imminent drowning of the net in sticky brown liquid
|
||
|
||
Contents:
|
||
=========
|
||
1. Preamble
|
||
2. The Future History of PepNet
|
||
|
||
|
||
1. Preamble
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
Fuck:
|
||
- EFF
|
||
- ClariNet
|
||
- Netcom
|
||
- the cypherpunk/objectivism/"free-speech" complex
|
||
- all other net.rapers and drones of the corporate greed fungus who refuse
|
||
to recognize the real threats to freedom of expression on the Internet
|
||
|
||
|
||
2. The Future History of PepNet
|
||
===============================
|
||
|
||
1994
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- July 1994:
|
||
|
||
Pepsico Inc., makers of Pepsi-Cola, announces the creation of PepNet.
|
||
PepNet will be a public-access network of BBSes, with nodes in most major
|
||
cities, providing low-cost access to images, sounds, and text files. The
|
||
press release states that Pepsico will purchase files on a lump-sum basis for
|
||
public domain distribution, and that Pepsico believes the cost to it of the
|
||
network will be offset by the positive publicity generated.
|
||
|
||
- December 1994:
|
||
|
||
PepNet is up and running, with approximately 500 subscribers North
|
||
America-wide. The most popular download items are R-rated images purchased
|
||
from Playboy, images and sounds from popular Paramount TV shows and movies,
|
||
and the library of public-domain classics schnorred from world.std.com. The
|
||
fact that all of these are available freely elsewhere does not seem to faze
|
||
the PepNet people.
|
||
|
||
Pepsico announces the expansion of PepNet services to include Internet
|
||
services, in particular the Usenet newsgroups, on some sites.
|
||
|
||
1995
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- March 1995:
|
||
|
||
PepNet is a standing joke on the Internet/Usenet, but its success proves that
|
||
it will at least not be an embarrassment to Pepsico. Pepsico starts heavily
|
||
promoting PepNet in computer circles.
|
||
|
||
Pepsi releases a general-broadcast TV ad which features two 1/2-second shots
|
||
of young people laughing while looking at a computer screen and drinking Pepsi.
|
||
|
||
- August 1995:
|
||
|
||
In a major joint press release, Pepsico, Microsoft, and Apple announce the
|
||
CyberSurfBoard, a low-cost computer specialized for connecting to nets such as
|
||
PepNet. Along with the low price for hardware and software, users get 1 month
|
||
of free access and 1 hour of free download time on PepNet.
|
||
|
||
- December 1995:
|
||
|
||
CyberSurfBoard sales are brisk. There are now approximately 20,000
|
||
subscribers to PepNet, and nodes in every major city. Magazines such as Time,
|
||
Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Wired, and the four major US TV networks,
|
||
have now jumped on the bandwagon and are releasing images and sounds. Various
|
||
copycat services are starting up or in development by Philip Morris, GE, and
|
||
Mitsubishi.
|
||
|
||
The success of PepNet baffles longtime Internet users, since all the services
|
||
it provides are provided better elsewhere. This point of view does not get
|
||
much coverage in the established media.
|
||
|
||
PepNet begins providing very low-cost Usenet feeds to other sites.
|
||
|
||
1996
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- March 1996:
|
||
|
||
Coke releases an ad featuring young people talking and laughing while looking
|
||
at a computer screen and drinking Coke.
|
||
|
||
- June 1996:
|
||
|
||
Pepsico and an unnamed Chicago BBS operator reach a quiet out-of-court
|
||
settlement. The sysop was sued for allegedly harboring and encouraging people
|
||
who took images from PepNet and distributed them free on the Internet. The
|
||
sysop agrees to pay Pepsico $350,000 and to desist from operating a BBS for
|
||
five years.
|
||
|
||
- September 1996:
|
||
|
||
PepNet subscribers are in the high hundreds of thousands.
|
||
|
||
20% of all Usenet articles now flow through the sites uh-huh.pepnet.com and/or
|
||
new-gen.pepnet.com (which are really virtual sites made up of dozens of
|
||
machines each). 3% of all non-technical articles on Usenet come from PepNet
|
||
sites.
|
||
|
||
A flame war breaks out on several technical and non-technical newsgroups about
|
||
whether the presence of things like "uh-huh.pepnet" and the line
|
||
Organization: PepNet (The Net for a New Generation)
|
||
in the headers of Usenet messages constitutes advertising, and if so whether
|
||
it subverts NSF Internet use policy.
|
||
|
||
- October 1996:
|
||
|
||
Pepsico announces "The PepNet Eloquence Awards". The 10 people who write the
|
||
most eloquent Usenet articles of the year (in PepNet's opinion) will receive 1
|
||
year of free access and unlimited download time on PepNet.
|
||
|
||
Time-Warner and Pepsico announce a long-term cooperative agreement on provision
|
||
of images and services. _Time_ gives exclusive rights to its electronic
|
||
version to PepNet. Paramount bites its lip but continues to provide images to
|
||
PepNet, since it's the biggest thing going.
|
||
|
||
1997
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- January 1997:
|
||
|
||
The "advertising" flame war is being won by Pepsi. Many university
|
||
administrators, alerted that PepNet offers outrageously cheap Usenet feeds,
|
||
have switched to PepNet feeds. Now about 35% of Usenet articles flow through
|
||
PepNet sites.
|
||
|
||
- April 1997:
|
||
|
||
The PepNet Eloquence Awards are announced. Five US college students,
|
||
including two who argued vociferously in support of PepNet, are among the
|
||
winners.
|
||
|
||
JetStream (Philip Morris's copycat network) and Spectrum (Mitsubishi's copycat
|
||
network) now route about 8% of Usenet articles.
|
||
|
||
1998
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- January 1998:
|
||
|
||
The number of articles per day on Usenet is now about 30 times what it was
|
||
five years ago.
|
||
|
||
PepNet, JetStream, and Spectrum now route 80% of Usenet articles. 15% of
|
||
articles on technical newsgroups are posted from sites on these three nets.
|
||
This is attributed to companies and universities cutting back on direct Usenet
|
||
feeds because of good group PepNet rates.
|
||
|
||
Pepsico announces a modest downturn in profits.
|
||
|
||
- February 1998:
|
||
|
||
Pepsico announces cuts to its Advertising and PepNet divisions. Further
|
||
financial review is undertaken.
|
||
|
||
PepNet modestly increases its user fees.
|
||
|
||
- April 1998:
|
||
|
||
_Time_ runs an article on how the three major Usenet providers are losing
|
||
money on their networks.
|
||
|
||
Pepsico makes its full financial report for the fiscal year. It seems that its
|
||
profits have dipped more sharply than it had previously announced.
|
||
|
||
Pepsico floats a modest proposal on the net. Either:
|
||
|
||
(a) It can increase its user fees by 50% in order to save PepNet, or
|
||
(b) It can drastically reduce the Usenet feeds it provides, or
|
||
(c) It can add the header
|
||
Sponsored-by: Pepsico, makers of Pepsi-Cola
|
||
to all articles it routes, and the header
|
||
X-Advertising: You got the right one, baby!
|
||
on all non-technical articles it routes, and cut its advertising division
|
||
instead.
|
||
|
||
- May 1998:
|
||
|
||
PepNet proponents have the edge in the resultant massive flame war. Several
|
||
people claim that the addition of advertising to Usenet was Pepsi's intention
|
||
from the start. They are labelled paranoids, and their credit records are
|
||
somehow revealed via an anonymous server in Venezuela.
|
||
|
||
- August 1998:
|
||
|
||
Brad Templeton, the Undersecretary of Science and Information Technology in
|
||
President Quayle's administration, announces a major shift in NSF policy.
|
||
Advertising on NSF sites, "within acceptable limits", is explicitly allowed.
|
||
Cuts to financial support for university computer networks are made.
|
||
|
||
1999
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- March 1999:
|
||
|
||
Pepsico announces an upturn in profits. Joel Furr, the head of PepNet since
|
||
its inception, is credited with the success.
|
||
|
||
2000
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
- January 2000:
|
||
|
||
PepNet has 10 million subscribers worldwide.
|
||
|
||
95% of Usenet articles have at least 3 lines of "sponsorship" or advertising
|
||
messages.
|
||
|
||
50% of Usenet articles have at least 8 lines of advertising.
|
||
|
||
10% of the total messages on Usenet, in every newsgroup, are ads for
|
||
non-computer-related products and services.
|
||
|
||
The ailing Coca-Cola Company is taken over by Philip Morris Inc.
|
||
|
||
2020
|
||
====
|
||
|
||
Furr retires from Pepsico at age 45, with a generous pension, after numerous
|
||
accolades on his brilliance. An unauthorized biography of him, written by
|
||
Moon Unit Zappa, is released.
|
||
|
||
The biography gets great attention on the Internet... which is now generally
|
||
known as PepNet.
|
||
|
||
==
|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
== A preview of the next generation of newsreaders ======================
|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
|
||
news.future #3666 [1]
|
||
From: caadams@access.digex.net (Clifford A. Adams)
|
||
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,news.future
|
||
[1] Strn version 0.9.2 is now available.
|
||
Date: Fri Jan 21 14:45:57 CST 1994
|
||
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
|
||
Lines: 236
|
||
Keywords: strn, newsreader, filtering, prioritizing
|
||
|
||
[I thought some of the news.future crowd might be interested in some of the
|
||
new developments, especially Internet-sharable virtual newsgroups.]
|
||
|
||
Strn (Scan TRN) version 0.9.2 is now available.
|
||
See below for FTP sites. [Some of the uunet mirrors might take a day or
|
||
two to get a copy.]
|
||
|
||
Strn is based on trn (version 3.4.1 by Wayne Davison), and
|
||
contains all of the trn commands and features. It adds many new
|
||
capabilities to trn, such as a newsgroup browser, virtual newsgroups,
|
||
scoring/rating of articles, and easy configuration menus. Strn has
|
||
been developed and tested over the past year with the help of more
|
||
than 50 alpha testers. The beta release is intended to make the
|
||
current version more widely available, test out some of the new
|
||
concepts (such as index-moderation using virtual newsgroups), and
|
||
gather suggestions for improvement.
|
||
|
||
Strn is still under development, although most of its planned
|
||
features are implemented. Future versions of strn will mainly improve
|
||
the documentation, scoring ease-of-use, and configurability of the
|
||
program. Version 1.0 release is expected in a finite amount of time.
|
||
|
||
Outline of major strn features:
|
||
* The "scan mode" interface
|
||
o A consistent full-screen interface for the four scan modes.
|
||
. Implements many common commands such as movement, shell escapes,
|
||
and searching.
|
||
. Common code allows quick development of new scan modes.
|
||
o Uses arrow keys for movement (trn-style 'n' and 'p' are also allowed).
|
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o X windows mouse selection (when strn is run under "xterm").
|
||
* Group scan mode
|
||
o Full-screen interface for newsgroup selection.
|
||
o Can replace the trn newsgroup selector for most purposes.
|
||
o Easy subscription/unsubscription to newsgroups.
|
||
o User-definable and sharable topic hierarchies.
|
||
. Example: one could have an "IBM PC" topic containing
|
||
the groups in comp.sys.ibm.pc.*, comp.os.msdos.*, comp.os.os2,
|
||
and comp.os.ms-windows.*
|
||
o Topic hierarchies can be easily shared:
|
||
. Locally, by adding a link to another user's topics.
|
||
. Remotely, by sending the topic files to other users.
|
||
. Via Internet using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
|
||
* Virtual scan mode
|
||
o Supports "virtual groups" consisting of articles from any newsgroup.
|
||
o Supports an easy-to-use "hotlist" of selected articles.
|
||
o Merged groups, such as rec.arts.sf.* (all articles in those groups)
|
||
o Virtual group files can be mailed to other users, and (with some setup)
|
||
automatically added to a user's virtual group files.
|
||
o Posted virtual group files can be used directly, allowing easy
|
||
"index-moderated" newsgroups.
|
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o Virtual newsgroups can be shared via Internet and URLs.
|
||
* Article scan mode
|
||
o Subject-based "threading" available.
|
||
. All articles with the same subject can be displayed as one line.
|
||
o Summaries and keywords can be displayed.
|
||
o Articles can be marked and read as a group.
|
||
o Displays articles in either arrival or score order.
|
||
(See below for more information on scoring.)
|
||
* Scoring
|
||
o Articles are assigned a score by scoring rules consisting of:
|
||
. Header matching: either exact text or regular expressions.
|
||
. (optional) NewsClip programs.
|
||
o Scoring allows high scoring (interesting) articles to be presented
|
||
before non-scored (ordinary) or negative-scoring (uninteresting) ones.
|
||
For instance, in sci.space, one could give higher scores to
|
||
postings from NASA or JPL, and easily read only those articles.
|
||
o Articles are graded on a continuous scale, rather than a binary
|
||
keep/junk distinction. (Articles scoring below a threshold
|
||
value can be junked automatically.)
|
||
o Scoring is *fast*, typically limited by I/O times to fetch article
|
||
headers.
|
||
o Scoring rules can be entered with an easy-to-use menu.
|
||
o Scoring can be done from a shell script run by cron/at.
|
||
o Scores are saved to a file so they don't need to be recalculated.
|
||
* Online help (help scan mode)
|
||
o Typing 'H' at almost any prompt enters help scan mode.
|
||
o Help scan mode presents menus of documentation, containing:
|
||
. The complete trn manual, broken into sections.
|
||
. Full strn documentation.
|
||
. Introductory USENET documents (such as "What is USENET?").
|
||
o Help files can be easily edited by the local administrator.
|
||
* Online configuration
|
||
o Easy menu-based configuration of almost all strn options.
|
||
o Accessible from the newsgroup selector or group scan mode.
|
||
o Configuration changes are automatically saved for the next strn run.
|
||
o Site-wide configuration
|
||
|
||
Strn version 0.9.2 is available from the following FTP sites:
|
||
(North America, Eastern US)
|
||
ftp.uu.net
|
||
/news/trn/strn
|
||
ftp.digex.net
|
||
/pub/news
|
||
(North America, Southwest US)
|
||
perseus.unm.edu
|
||
/pub/strn
|
||
(United Kingdom)
|
||
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:computing/news/software/readers/trn/strn
|
||
(Europe, Netherlands)
|
||
ftp.twi.tudelft.nl
|
||
/pub/news
|
||
(South Africa)
|
||
ftp.ee.und.ac.za
|
||
/pub/news/strn
|
||
|
||
Sample displays [edited to reduce number of lines]:
|
||
Article scan mode:
|
||
[authors not shown in this sample to protect the guilty :-]:
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
sci.physics | 790 unread Fold
|
||
+.... [ 18] ( 9) > Some physics questions
|
||
+....> [ 14] ( 10) > The size of electrons, and Fanciful misc SAGA
|
||
+.... [ 11] ( 4) > Massive Photons Tomorrow (was Scientists Plan...)
|
||
+.... [ 8] ( 47) > NASA Coverup
|
||
Keys: Moon Neutral Point calculation
|
||
+...x [ 7] ( 8) > Gravitation & massless particles (was Re: Some physics qu
|
||
+..+. [ 3] ( 5) > Question on Hawking radiation
|
||
Summary: Why don't extremal black holes radiate?
|
||
+.... [ 3] ( 10) > Background Radiation and Olber's Paradox
|
||
+.... [ 1] ( 1) Covariant vs. Lie Derivative in Gen. Rel.?
|
||
-TOP-(score (old>new) order, 100% scored)
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
|
||
Group scan mode:
|
||
[Here is the "top" level:]
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
Top Level | Unread Newsgroups | Top Level
|
||
file> Favorites
|
||
virt Hotlist
|
||
file Americast (USA Today)
|
||
file USENET
|
||
file Networks
|
||
file Computers
|
||
file Amiga!
|
||
file Social
|
||
file Games
|
||
file Recreational
|
||
file Science
|
||
file Misc
|
||
file Hierarchies
|
||
list All groups in .newsrc
|
||
-ALL-
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
[After selecting the "USENET" entry the screen displays:]
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
Level 2 | Unread Newsgroups | USENET
|
||
+.... 31> news.software.readers
|
||
+M... 4 news.announce.newgroups
|
||
+.... 7 news.misc
|
||
+.... 33 news.software.nn
|
||
+.... 27 news.future
|
||
+.... 139 alt.config
|
||
+.... 201 alt.fan.warlord
|
||
+.... 2259 control
|
||
list foreign news
|
||
-ALL-
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
|
||
Virtual scan mode:
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
Virtual 1 | unread+read | Hotlist
|
||
-.... [ 33] >Newsreader authors: Would article replacement break your reader <
|
||
-.... [ 18] FAQ use of replaces: <news.software.readers>
|
||
-.... [ 6] >Using NNRP for something like "nngrab" <news.software.readers>
|
||
-.... [ 6] rn KILL file FAQ <news.software.readers>
|
||
-.... [ -1] Future USENET projections, statistical <news.future>
|
||
-.... [ -1] Need more best-of-usenet groups/subj scan <news.misc>
|
||
-.... [ -1] More group-related intelligence for Pnews wanted. <news.software.r
|
||
-ALL-(score order)
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
|
||
Help scan mode:
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
Top Level | (type 'h' for help)
|
||
help> Help on help scan mode
|
||
topic Introductory USENET documents
|
||
topic Trn manual information
|
||
help Strn Quickstart
|
||
topic Introductory strn documentation
|
||
topic Group scan mode
|
||
topic Article scan mode
|
||
topic Virtual scan mode (merged/virtual newsgroups)
|
||
topic Scoring
|
||
topic Digital signatures, cryptography, and USENET
|
||
topic Misc (coding style, troubleshooting, quotes)
|
||
topic Configuration (user and site-wide)
|
||
topic Installation
|
||
topic Version-related information
|
||
help Credits
|
||
-ALL-
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
|
||
Configuration menus:
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
Strn configuration menu:
|
||
0) Exit.
|
||
1) Group scan mode.
|
||
2) Article scan mode.
|
||
3) Virtual scan mode.
|
||
4) Scoring.
|
||
5) Miscellaneous.
|
||
Enter your choice: 2
|
||
|
||
Article scan configuration menu:
|
||
0) Exit.
|
||
1) Change the displayed fields.
|
||
(Author, threadcount, summary, etc...)
|
||
2) Change ordering and misc. flags.
|
||
(score ordering, fold, follow, etc...)
|
||
Enter your choice: 1
|
||
|
||
Article scan display:
|
||
0) Exit.
|
||
1) Article number (OFF)
|
||
2) Score (ON)
|
||
3) Number of articles with same subject (ON)
|
||
4) Author (ON)
|
||
5) Summary (OFF)
|
||
6) Keywords (OFF)
|
||
An article will look like this:
|
||
+.... [ 26] (17) John Q. Public Subject of the article
|
||
Enter your choice:
|
||
---------- cut ----------
|
||
|
||
Authors: (See the strn credits for more information)
|
||
STRN Clifford A. Adams <caadams@access.digex.net>
|
||
TRN Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com>
|
||
RN Stan Barber (current maintainer)
|
||
RN Larry Wall (original author of rn)
|
||
|
||
--Cliff
|
||
--
|
||
Clifford A. Adams caadams@access.digex.net | Author of "strn" (scan trn):
|
||
457 Ash St. NE Albuquerque, NM 87106 | Trn 3.4.1 + virtual newsgroups,
|
||
scoring (articles sorted by score), newsgroup menus, online help, and more.
|
||
See ftp.uu.net:/news/trn/strn/strn-0.9.2.tar.gz
|
||
|
||
End of article 3666 (of 3666) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
To subscribe to Keepers, send a request to Jorn Barger at:
|
||
|
||
jorn@mcs.com
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Back-issues are available for ftp from:
|
||
|
||
genesis.mcs.com
|
||
|
||
in
|
||
|
||
mcsnet.users/jorn/keepers
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
==============================================================================
|
||
THE BUTT OF THE BOOK
|
||
==============================================================================
|
||
|
||
BBBB U U TTTTTT TTTTTT
|
||
B B U U TT TT ## BBBB OOO OOO K K
|
||
# # BBBB U U TT TT ### # B B O O O O K K
|
||
### ### ### B B U U TT TT # # ## # # BBBB O O O O KK
|
||
# # # ## BBBB UUU TT TT ### # ### ### ### B B O O O O K K
|
||
## # # ### ## # # # ## BBBB OOO OOO K K
|
||
## # # ###
|
||
|
||
Disclaimer: News is hell. Do the best you can... ;^/
|
||
|
||
== Blasphemosity =============================================================
|
||
|
||
alt.religion.kibology #17042 (1 more) (1)+-(1)
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.tasteless,alt.flame,talk.bizarre,alt. \-(1)--[1]
|
||
+ religion.kibology
|
||
From: dpl@aber.ac.uk (Dave Langstaff)
|
||
[1] Re: GLOBAL ALERT, JESUS IS CUMMING
|
||
Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru
|
||
Date: Fri Jan 21 07:40:19 CST 1994
|
||
Lines: 17
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Jan21.085125.24224@news.uit.no>,
|
||
Paal Ditlefsen Ekran <paalde@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote:
|
||
>In article <201244Z20011994@anon.penet.fi>, an38115@anon.penet.fi (Barney Dinos
|
||
aur) writes:
|
||
>|>
|
||
>|> The earthquake in LA is a warning: Jesus is cumming! Seek to build an Ark
|
||
>|> that will carry you through that mighty Flood.
|
||
>|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
>
|
||
> Jesus is comming? Okay, I'll be making the cross this time..
|
||
>
|
||
That's good, he said he was looking for someone to put him up over easter.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Dave Langstaff | Janet:dpl@uk.ac.aber
|
||
Any views expressed are those of the author alone. | Phone:(0970)622838
|
||
After-life, After-shave, don't hold with any of it, bleugh! - Sir Henry
|
||
End of article 17042 (of 17062) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
== Sociology of sexism ========================================================
|
||
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
8888 MM::::: |////)))))))))))))_______________________________________).
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
alt.sex.exhibitionism #151 -[1]
|
||
From: an58247@anon.penet.fi
|
||
X-Anonymously-To: alt.sex.exhibitionism
|
||
Organization: Anonymous contact service
|
||
Date: Thu Jan 20 05:42:49 CST 1994
|
||
[1] re: shoe clerks
|
||
Lines: 31
|
||
|
||
I too wonder if the revealing blouse was a "commission generator." There is a
|
||
Merry-Go-Round that I know of where the women all but hang their tits out!
|
||
I used to go there when I had no money, just to look at the women. Personally,
|
||
i found the whole experience irritating because they were into some serious
|
||
high-pressure sales. They would tell the guys how great they would look in
|
||
something, let's say, a shirt. As I'm putting on the shirt, they'll toss a pair
|
||
of pants in and insist that they haven't seen the pants on anyone yet and they
|
||
just want to see how they look on someone. Next, they'll toss a pair of shoes
|
||
in, and then a belt. I was foolish enough to fall for this, and all the while
|
||
they're smiling, exposing cleavage, telling me how great I look in these cloth
|
||
es. After I'm in these clothes, looking in the mirror, they calculate how much
|
||
all of these clothes cost and the various forms of payment that they accept -
|
||
including lay-away! After I put on $200 worth of clothes, looked at all the
|
||
cleavage, and listened to how great I looked, I reminded them that I was
|
||
"just looking" when I got into the store. And it was amazing what happened.
|
||
When I took off the clothes and left the dressingroom, there was no one out the
|
||
re. The smiling cleavages were GONE!!! ONE lady was around to take my clothes
|
||
to put back on the shelf - and she did a poor job of concealing her ire. But t
|
||
he cleavage was gone!
|
||
|
||
So, I think the revealing blouse was part of the sales technique.
|
||
|
||
I could elaborate on the vast amount of sailors that crowd Merry-Go-Round on
|
||
paydays!! And I believe that this is because they get to see a little tit, a
|
||
nd get their ego stroked while these women sell them very cheesey, very trendy
|
||
clothes.
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi.
|
||
Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized,
|
||
and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned.
|
||
Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.
|
||
End of article 151 (of 151) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
== Sick sick sick... =======================================================
|
||
|
||
alt.conspiracy #37409 (0 + 0 more) (1)--[1]
|
||
From: christ@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Michael Kenyon)
|
||
Newsgroups: alt.stupidity,alt.conspiracy,alt.tasteless,alt.religion.kibology
|
||
[1] Re: HELP ME FIND MY REAL PARENTS
|
||
Date: Fri Jan 21 15:34:35 CST 1994
|
||
Organization: Wilamette Accounting and Revenue Service
|
||
Lines: 43
|
||
|
||
Chelsea Clinton (an38115@anon.penet.fi) wrote:
|
||
|
||
: You know, when I first read the accusation that I might be a changeling,
|
||
: and that my true parents are Venezuelans living in small herds in grassy
|
||
: areas near water, and that I might be "edible, but no delicacy", I ran to
|
||
: Bill, crying, "Daddy, Daddy, they all say I'm a capybara! Or a Tapir!!
|
||
: Please nuke the net!"
|
||
: But Bill said that he had been meaning to break this news to me for a
|
||
: long time. Anyway, how could I really be the daughter of a sexy devious
|
||
: love goddess?
|
||
: So this is an appeal: please help me to find my true parents.
|
||
|
||
I never thought I'd post to the net again, but my heart goes out to you
|
||
little Chelsea. I think it's time you shold know the truth.
|
||
|
||
Honey, in my days as the Enema Bandit, I did alot of bad things. Sometimes
|
||
it was just pushing women onto the ground at night and putting an enema tube in
|
||
their butt, then squeezing warm tang from the attatched bag into their colon.
|
||
Honey, you gotta realize...Well, shoot. Honey, sometimes I didn't use tang.
|
||
Sometimes I used my own manseed, diluted in a mixture of corn syrup and
|
||
water (hummingbird feed). I'm afriad this gloucose mixture energised my
|
||
seed, which implanted a stray ball of shit in my victim's ass.
|
||
|
||
This ball grew and grew and one day when Bill Clinton was fucking the woman
|
||
in the ass, it attatched itself to the end of his little penis. When Bill and
|
||
Hilly discovered the growth, they decided that Bill must be pregnant (after
|
||
all, Hillary was so much more MASCULINE). The shitball which had now begun
|
||
feeding on Bill's already tiny choad^H^H^H^H^Hpenis eventually grew over a
|
||
period of weeks. When it fell off his bleeding stump, Hilly picked it up and
|
||
that's when they named you, Chelsea.
|
||
|
||
But I'm your real father, sweetheart. You're a product of my loins, and I
|
||
think you've been away from them for far too long. I see you on the news with
|
||
that lost look in your eyes...You're so much more advanced than your friends.
|
||
|
||
[poster stops here to vomit]
|
||
|
||
Michael Kenyon
|
||
--
|
||
kenyon@wilamette.oregon.edu
|
||
My opinions are NOT THOSE of Wilamme Accounting and Revenue, but my BOSSES'
|
||
ARE!
|
||
|
||
End of article 37409 (of 37411) -- what next? [npq]
|
||
|
||
_____
|
||
/ \ _n_ ______
|
||
|Oink!|_ _/o \/ \@ _________
|
||
= \_____/ \ O_ )=( ____|_ \______ =
|
||
\___/\______/ \ \ \_____ |
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
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