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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 10:55:42 PST
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Reply-To: <cocot@osc.versant.com>
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Message-ID: <surfpunk-0013@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal>
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Mime-Version: 1.0
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From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Captain COCOT)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0013] ADMIN: and happy holidays
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Keywords: surfpunk, Mark Leyner, Christmas, Quik, Barbie, 2600
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I'm going to slow down the SURFPUNK Technical Journal mailing list
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for the holidays. I've got a few things that have been piling up,
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and will try do dispense them in the next 24 hours. It may be
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kinda quiet after that until the new year.
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Someone asked about having DIGEST format instead of discrete SURFPUNK
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mailings. Three thoughts on that: 1. Most people's mailers summarize,
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save, delete, and otherwise manage real messages better than DIGESTs.
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2. That'll work better with MIME encapsulation of the individual
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messages, which should be an option, for those whose software can
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handle it (or have the abilility to compile and use software that can
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handle it -- some places like the WELL do not allow you to build your
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own stuff easily). 3. I'll try and send SURFPUNKS in daily bursts,
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so you don't get biffed and interrupted thoughout the day. That'll
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take my changing my software, which won't happen until January.
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And I'm shifting my title to Captain. Since this is an adventure,
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not a research project, it seems more appropriate, as well as more
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alliterate. [ "And remember, he's not a real doctor -- 'I have
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a Master's Degree! In Science!' " -- doctor science ]
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Oh, and some ask "what is a COCOT?" Customer Owned Coin Operated
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Telephone. The ones that charge inordinate prices, have lousy
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electronics, and make it as difficult as possible to get in touch with
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operators, long distance companies of your choice, and voicemail &
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beepers via touch tones. The second most maddening technology in
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america (after shoulder straps that grab you by the neck if you open
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the front left door). And the absolute ELITE among pay phones: you do
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things their way, by their rules, at their prices, or not at all!
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/* The latest issue of 2600 describes ways for COCOT Robin Hoods to get
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revenge ... but as with any other phreaking information, if you're not
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a reasonably accomplished phreak yourself, you should check it out with
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someone who is, to learn the real risks -- especially if it's
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widely-published and old information, like this is ...*/
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Happy Holiday Hacking! Captain Cocot
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p.s. I'm planning on attending the WELL office party in SoMa (SF)
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this friday night. It's open; write me for directions.
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________________________________________________________________________
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[ this comes via <minneman@parc.xerox.com> and <iansmith@cc.gatech.edu> ]
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Do you know the commercial where the heavily mustached old woman in a
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black shroud drinks strawberry Nestle' Quik and turns into a buxom
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bombshell in pasties and G-string, and she squats down for a second in a
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mud puddle, and when she gets up, her buttocks are covered with leeches,
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and Jesus appears holding a Barbie, and two beams of sparkling particles
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shoot from the eyes of the Barbie and vaporize the leeches, and the
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Bombshell gets on her motorcycle, and pink florets of exhaust spurt from
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the tailpipe spelling out the words BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE? Try
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watching that on drugs. It's un-fucking-believable.
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- Mark Leyner
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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________________________________________________________________________
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. O come, O come, GodWithUs!
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