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%# ..uXu.. 1991 #%
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#% Underground eXperts United %#
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%# presents... #%
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#% -=*=- %#
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%# The European Digest Series Vol.1 Issue #1 #%
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#% 1991 By THE CHIEF ..uXu.. %#
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Contents...
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01.............Introduction
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02.............Why?
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03.............Even Worse!
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04.............SysOp's Underground Network (SUn)
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05.............Now You Know
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06.............Oops!
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07.............Recommended
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08.............End Comments
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1. INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to TED Vol.1 Issue #1 - The uXu File #1!
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The European Digest Series have come to life because of the massive amount
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of claimed underground bulletin board systems that, in recent years, have
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seen the light, or, on the other side, have hit the dust. The European
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Digest Vol.1 Issue #6 and #7 will include lists of Established and Known
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Underground Boards, in area-code order, and with comments, facts, status
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(number of members, meetings and so on), and a record of the amount of
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Online Gfiles available.
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This series will not, repeat NOT, be updated in a regular basis because of
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the pre-mentioned massive amount of boards that exist today. It is impossible
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to update it regularly without having that as a full-time job. And, secondly,
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I call Long Distance to ALL of these boards, which keeps the phone-bill at a
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regular $1000.00 amount.
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2. THEN WHY?
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Well, I have, probably as the most of you reading this, called a few boards
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in my lifetime. More than often, these boards have claimed to be Under-
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ground boards with:
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'More than XXXX+ Gfiles Online'
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'Very Active Subs'
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'Serious discussions'
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'H/P/A/V/C/x Only! No ELITE!'
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'Latest Hacker Utils'
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'Full Access First Call'
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'Free Leeching'.
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I can say straight away that 90-95% of these "Claims" have been false, and
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have been encountered when checked with:
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'The HD just crashed last week...'
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'I had to make room for another Warez Filearea...'
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'I don't know you, so I can't give you Full Access on the first call...'
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'Is Hacker v0.0087 Beta NOT the latest version?...'
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and stuff like the following:
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* On A 'Free Leeching' Board:
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YOUR UL/DL RATIO IS .....
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YOU MUST UPLOAD xxxx GB Before Downloading
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GFILE AREA NOT AVAILABLE
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FILE AREAS NOT AVAILABLE
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NOTHING IS AVAILABLE
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NO LEECHING! - LEECH AND YOU'RE KICKED OUT!
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NO CARRIER
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* On A 'H/P/A/V/C/x! No Elite!' Board:
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AREA 27 AMIGA 0-DAY WAREZ ONLY
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AREA 87 IBM 0-WEEK WAREZ ONLY
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(E) ELITE ONLY! MESSAGES SUBS
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PARABLOCKS HQ 9600- ONLY!
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BLAH BLAH BLAH...SOFTWARE... BLAH...IF YOU AGREE TYPE 'OK' ONLY
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IF YOU ARE A 'LAMER' YOU'RE KICKED OUT! ONLY 0-DAY WAREZ!
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NO CARRIER ONLY
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* On A 'Very Active Subs' and 'Serious Discussions' Board:
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Message: 1 Date: 12/6/87
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From: SysOp Pvt Recd
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To: All
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Title: Sub
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This Message Sub is for all Hackers out there. And I just Know it will
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be a Very Active Sub, because of all the hackers that call here.
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/&/&/&/ SYSOP /&/&/&/
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Message: 2 Date: 1/12/90
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From: Mr Novice Pvt Recd
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To: All
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Title: Help!
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I have a Vic-20 and I have problems.
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When I call with my 1200/75 modem I
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can't connect to any bulletin board
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systems except for this one. Please
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help. Also, I wonder what Basic is?
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Bye!!
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ps. What is 80 columns? ds.
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[End Of Messages]
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(P)ost (R)ead (S)can (E)xit
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(Command:
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* On a 'More than XXXX+ GFILES Online' Board:
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AREA FILES LAST DATE
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1. General Gfiles 7 05/18/86
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2. Hacking 2 01/21/87
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3. Phreaking 11 01/21/87
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4. Carding 1 01/21/87
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5. Magazines 3 01/21/87
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6. Phrack Inc.!! 1 11/17/85
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7. GIF 18 01/21/87
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8. Warez 0-Dayz 0 01/21/87
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9. New Uploads 0 01/21/87
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[End Of Areas]
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(U)pload (L)ist (A)rea (E)xit
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(Command:
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(Note: No VIEW command! uachk!)
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...and so it goes. On and On, and even After you have checked the board,
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received the 'explanations' from the SysOp, the Ads still look the same.
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You start to understand the point to this series? Well, here's something
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even Worse (if possible)!
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3. EVEN WORSE!
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We have all read about Feds and SS who starts Fake Underground Boards. Now
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how can you see the difference from a real one? How can you decide NOT to
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call 'Dragons Dentist' when you don't know that it is a Fed Bust-Board?
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Here's a little piece from a very funny (and true) gfile called 'Feds,
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how to find and eliminate them' (author unknown):
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Feds can be found in almost every major bbs system in the country. They are
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the ones who keep asking the "famous name" pirates for warez, and post none of
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their own. Yes, the fed is the ultimate leech. They are also mistaken for 12-
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14 year-old leeches, but sysops can usually tell that something is wrong when
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a 13-year-old who "just started last week" is typing faster than the fire rate
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for an UZI sub-machine gun.... and uses words like "extenuating", "viable",
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and "situation normal". The typical 13-year-old follows the real leech's
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guide, with "k00l", "<``l", "rad", "l8t0r", and "do you have this...?".
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WHERE THEY HANG OUT: Sprint, MCI, Telediscount, AT&T, ESS, and Metro (?)
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Security offices.... Police Stations... Large BBS's... Gay Bars... You know...
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That's some good advice there. We have also seen articles like:
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COLORADO COPS GO ONLINE
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The board, which uses RBBS software, is open after 5 pm weekdays and
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all day Saturdays and Sundays at 303-987-7388. The department's address is 445
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S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, CO 80226.
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FORBIDDEN ZONE BBS BUSTED
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The FBI set up their own BBS to nail the kid (the SysOp).
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- How was the FBI able to use a BBS to catch the Forbidden zone?
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I understand that it was used to track uploaders of commercial software.
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POLICE SET UP BULLETIN BOARD STINGS
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For more than two years, the department secretly ran a board called the
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Underground Tunnel, which was set up to appear as a bulletin board run by a
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system operator called Pluto. But late last month - to the surprise of the
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board's more than 1,000 users - Pluto was revealed as Sgt. Robert Ansley, a
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seven-year veteran of the police department.
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Sting and intelligence gathering bulletin board operations are on the rise
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throughout the country, according to law enforcement officials. Several police
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departments nationwide have already used bulletin boards to track down and
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arrest microcomputer users who post illegally obtained calling card codes,
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mainframe access procedures and passwords, or other confidential information.
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According to one high-lvel West Coast law enforcement officer who declined to
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be identified, federal officials are now joining local authorities in running
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bulletin boards in several key metropolitan areas.
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(all article-excerpts courtesy of the writers & authors)
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This is a bit scary, because when there are Cop-SysOps around, the information
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flow will thin out to NOTHING in the end. No new underground boards will be
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accepted, and when the old ones die, there will be Zero Underground boards
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to call! For an example, Ripco was a Great board once. Had the reputation, was
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known to a majority of underground users, and had been active for a very long
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time. After it got up again, after the bust, people was of course reluctant
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to call. Most explanations were 'Feds got it once..' and 'Ever heard of
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bugs?'. I understand these people, and therefore it would be nice to TRUST the
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boards we call by checking them out. Now, you all say 'So how are You going to
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spot the difference between a Fake BBS and a Genuine Underground Board then??'
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Answer: I can't! That's a problem. All I wanted to say by this is that you
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can Never trust New Unknown Underground Boards and that you should be careful
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when calling one. Of course I will report Fake Boards if I spot any, so keep
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an eye on the "Number of Feds" grade in the BBS-Listings, starting in TED
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Issue #6.
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4. SysOp's Underground Network (SUn)
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The SySop's Underground Network is a group of SySops who, in the effort to
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further advance the state of underground computing, have joined together
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to form a network. It will not include 'warez type boards', so if that's
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your thing, you can't be a member. They will concentrate instead on the
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informational boards. Text files, P/H/A/C/V bases, and good 'underground'
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activities.
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A Recent forming of an information-spreading Network have made the job of
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spotting Feds and fake boards easier. SysOp's Underground Network will keep
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it's members updated on Fake Users and Feds spotted on Underground boards,
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and Busts. The members in their turn will inform the members of their boards,
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and they will then warn their friends. This will mean that fake users and feds
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will have a hard time keeping their identity secret, and will hopefully not be
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able to harm the underground community too much.
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To join The SysOp's Underground Network, you have to be an Underground Board
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SysOp (if you didn't understand that by now), and you have to fill out the
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SUn Application form and agree to the rules therein. The SUn application form
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can be obtained on the following boards:
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Persistance Of Time.....313-462-1141
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Guild Of Assains........713-933-7248
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Project X...............713-356-2042
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DoPey's Domain..........714-951-7939
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Info Addict.............+46-###-####
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The Lifetime Detour.....313-644-5505
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The Crowbar Hotel.......409-372-5511
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5. NOW YOU KNOW
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These things should be more than enough to convince you that this series of
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files will be needed. If someone have the time to keep the BBS-Check files
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updated, that help would be greatly appreciated. It sure would be useful.
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If you still aren't convinced, please go into your bathroom, fill the bath-
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tub with ice-cold water, (add a few 100's of ice-cubes), and get into it.
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Thank you.
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6. OOPS!
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This file should have been the 1st BBS Check file, but became a my view
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of the underground bulletin board scene. I am tired of wasting my time on
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those fake/empty/claim-to-be-great boards. That's the way gfiles are born.....
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7. RECOMMENDED
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This section is included in every issue of The European Digest and will
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contain recommended stuff/boards/reading and so on. For this file,
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Some 4 Great Boards:
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NAME PHONE WHY
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Condemned Reality 618-397-7702 Huge Gfile Collection. Nice SysOp.
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Good Subs & Discussions.
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Lunatic Labs 213-655-0691 The Old Timer still online. Neat
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subs, Gfiles, Misc Files. Serious.
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The Crowbar Hotel 409-372-5511 Home of SUn. Good Gfile Collection.
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Nice SysOp. Kinda nice BBS Software.
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Demon Roach Underground 806-794-4362 The Old Timer still online. Great
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subs. Lotsa Gfiles. Nice SysOp.
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8. END COMMENTS
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You have probably already guessed that I am not American (my spelling stinks!)
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Well, I am working on my spelling so hang in there guys. It will get better.
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The European Digest will not feature Hacking techniques, Phreaking, Carding,
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information about government systems or the basic underground rap. It will
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be different. It IS different. Manuals, The Underground Scene, Deep Deep
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whatever, and so on. Less 'general rag stuff' and More Miscellaneous stuff.
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Swedish Hacker News will be presented through the 'uXu - Swedish News' series,
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but ONLY in Swedish. English translations will however be published in other
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well-known underground rags, as contributions.
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Check out the Next TED for Something Completely Different!
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You can reach me on the following boards for comments, contributions,
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questions or whatever:
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Condemned Reality [618-397-7702]
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Land Of Karrus [215-948-2132]
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Demon Roach Underground [806-794-4362]
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Balanced pH [818-783-5320]
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Info Addict [+46-###-####]
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The Chief 1991
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& speech or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to &
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