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Pirate's Manifesto VII
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- Released 7 July 1994 -
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TODAYS TOPIC :
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The first Canadian PIRATE sysop to ever be charged
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with Copyright Infringement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PRELUDE :
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Well this is certainly news worthy. Many folks would assume that
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surely somewhere, someplace in that great country to the North that
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we call Canada, that someone would have been busted long before now
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for software piracy. But this is truly the first sysop ever charged
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for software piracy.
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I was going to save Pirate's Manifesto VI for another topic when this
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fell into my lap and I figured that it needed maximum spreading to all
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the educated and intelligent folks who have been reading these little
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diatribes of elite information. Here is why this is so interesting :
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All previous bust in Canada were always targeted against porno type
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bulletin boards ( which sometimes happened to have some copyrighted
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files on their system ). The only other strictly copyright related
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bust I can recall was when Montreal's North 90 was raided several
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years ago and the charges were dropped for lack of evidence because
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the police officers forgot to take the bulletin boards 'servers' for
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evidence ( Doh ! They were kept in another room and the cops only
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took the terminals with the modems - double Doh! )
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But the funny thing about this historical event is - " Who the hell
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was the 'Shadow' BBS and exactly how lame was it to not come to my
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attention long before now ? Hey I am the worlds most elite pirate
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right. So how come I never heard of this dump in the 604 phone
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exchange. How come none of the truly world class bulletin boards
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in the 604 exchange were not busted ? These are questions that
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always bother me when I read news reports of bust in an area code.
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But enough of my shit. Let us get on with reading this article and
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see what happened to this poor dumb shit whose board was infiltrated
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by snoops and spies from CAAST and the RCMP - triple DOH!
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ARTICLE BEGINS :
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TITLE : Bulletin Board Sysop Charged with Software Theft
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MAGAZINE : Computing Canada
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ISSUE : Volume 20 Number 14
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DATE OF ISSUE : July 6 1994
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AUTHOR : Monta Kerr
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The system operator of a Vancouver-based electronic bulletin board
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system (BBS) has been charged with illegally copying software.
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Lee Thomas Adams of Burnaby, British Columbia, operated an alleged
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pirate BBS known as Shadow. He was charged with 16 counts of copy
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right infringement after a several-month-long investigation by the
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assisted by the Canadian Alliance
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Against Software Theft (CAAST), in Vancouver.
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Adams is charged with copying software products from Borland Intl,
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Symantec Corp, IBM Corp, Lotus Developement Corp and WordPerfect.
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At press time, Stephen DeWitt, general manager of Toronto based
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Symantec Canada, said the vendors had not yet decided if they
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would go ahead with a criminal prosecution or settle out of court.
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"Our goal is not necessarily to bring down the heavy hand of the
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law" he said.
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"But certainly if people are breaking the law..., we're certainly
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going to take a pretty agressive stance as far as that's concerned".
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The Canadian subsidiaries of Symantec, Lotus and Word Perfect are
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all members of CAAST, an organization working to prevent the
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unauthorized copying of software. CAAST reports that software
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pirates cost the industry about $ 12.8 billion (US) every year.
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DeWitt said piracy can have a greater effect on Canadian subsidiaries
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than on their US parents. "Certainly Symantec as an organization is
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trying to provide services and products that are appropriate to the
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Canadian marketplace" he said, adding that Symantec Canada loses an
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estimated $1 million per year because of software theft.
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The loss of revenues as a result of piracy... impedes our ability
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to structure our organization in a way to better support Canadian
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customers.
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He said "underground" BBS's, distributing unauthorized copies of
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software, are not the only offenders. Some corporate users, home
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users and resellers also commit software theft, many without even
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realizing it is a crime.
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CAAST accepts reports of or questions about piracy through its
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Anti-Piracy Hotline at 1-800-263-9700
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OBSERVATIONS :
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Well this unknown dude certainly was an unlucky shit having those scum
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known as spies skulking about on his bulletin board for 'a couple of
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months' I would assume at this point all the kewl boards in the
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604 phone exchange are shitting their pants wondering which of them
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is going to be next. After all, the snoops weren't just on that one
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bulletin board looking for the products represented by that lame ass
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organization calls CAAST. Those snoops would have been looking for
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other leads to follow up on in their quest for busting 'dem low down
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pirates'. So I guess dumb ol' CAAST won't be stopping there and we
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can expect to hear them gloat more and more about their successes at
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gaining access to pirate bulletin boards - followed by the raids of
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their enforcers - better known as the RCMP.
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So who are these snoops that spend time infiltrating bulletin boards
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trying to find evidence to support a search warrant. Well if you
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were a regular reader of Pirates Manifesto, issue 1, you would know
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that these flunkies are none other than Pinkerton's and Wakenhuts
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Security. Yes, none other than those 'cheaper by a dozen' rental
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goofs. You may recall that we warned the world of the deal worked
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out by CAAST in Canada, SPA in the United States, and FAST in the UK,
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to employ the services of Pinkerton's and Wackenhut to infiltrate and
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bust pirate bulletin boards.
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Enough of our gloating. Just be warned that Pinkertons and Wackenhuts
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are the new investigative arm of those three anti-piracy organizations.
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CONCLUSIONS :
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Let me conclude with the following observations that might come as a
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shock to some sysops out there who in sheer ignorance of the law think
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that if they put some kind of anti-entrapment statement on the front of
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their BBS they that will not be charged. WRONG. In fact that very anti-
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entrapment screen on the front of your BBS might be the most valuable
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hint you are giving to the spies that yours is a BBS that is hiding
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something. But if you don't believe me... that is kewl. You will
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find out later just how useless that anti-entrapment screen was when
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your time to go to court comes up. That anti-entrapment screen is
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about as stupid as holding a cross in front of yourself to ward off
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vampires. Get real and ditch it. It stands out like a phucking
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neon light flashing in the dark " Bust me... bust me... bust me..."
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Now what about those dumbo's who think that using the 'software library'
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scam is going to help them beat a copyright infringement charge. WRONG.
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That scam is just about as dumb as my previous example. The courts will
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simply laugh in your face and spit in your eye as they seize all your
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assets. Think about it for a moment - what does a PUBLIC library have
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to do with a PRIVATE bulletin board. Get the hint - PUBLIC - PRIVATE.
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That is the significant difference between a library and a pirate BBS
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and that is what the court will rule when they convict you of running
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a PIRATE bulletin board and not a PUBLIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY - quad DOH!
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LAST BUT NOT LEAST... AND MOST NASTY !!!
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Lastly, let us say a few words about the DORKS who have been compiling
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huge phone list of all the pirate bulletin boards in an Area Code and
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then sending them out onto the bulletin boards. Congratulations you
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fucking two bit losers. In your attempt to be 'kewl' you have handed
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the police, Pinkerton's, Wackenhut, the RCMP, the Secret Service, Bell,
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and every anti-pirate asshole the phone numbers and rankings of the
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elite bulletin boards. Think what you have done you dick brains.
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Who the phucks payroll are these dickwads on. Are they really so fucking
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mindless as to not think the cops and good guys were not going to get
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their hands on those phone list. Phuuuuckkk you guys must have the
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combined IQ's of a snail.
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Permit me to suggest that a FIREBOMB be gently hurled through the phucking
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windows of those dickwads who released that LEGENDS.ONT and named off all
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the 416 and 905 bulletin boards. You dick wads really did a great favour
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by giving their phone numbers to every dickwad who read your shitty little
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grab for fame. Maybe your next grab for fame will be as a headline in
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the newspaper as the largest house fire this century. Assholes.
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Please use what phucking little brains you have next time before you
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attempt to be kewl by exposing all the 416 and 905 bulletin boards to
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the cops. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB !!!
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For those who are not familiar with what i am bitching about, let me
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just show you the final comments these dickwads placed on their telephone
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directory of every bulletin board in the 416 and 905 : And I quote :
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(( Yes they listed over 350 phone numbers and ratings of boards in
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the 416 and 905 - but at least we are not as stupid as them to
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repeat that complete list and all those vulnerable phone numbers ))
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-------------- TEXT TAKEN FROM LEGENDS.ONT -- DATED 7-6-94 ----------
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TOTAL ISSUE: 350 BBS ENTRIES!
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In the 416/905 Area Code 30-40 New Pirate Boards
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go up every month. In-order to keep the Underground
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informed of new systems, this publication will provide
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new system information every month. The 416/905 area code is
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larger than the 718 and 210 Area Codes, which originated
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the Pirate Scene. This FILE will be spread throughout
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Underground Systems and will attract quality users for
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the systems above. Any comments/Board Additions/Board
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Removals/BBS INFO can be left to us in the BBS Adds
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Echo, of NAPE_NET, OOF_NET, WOA_NET, RAD_NET, CAN/AM_NET
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INTERPOOL_NET, PHELONY_NET, VALIANT_NET, SYN_NET, INFI_NET
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Remember we're watching
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According to your comments, we appreciate the current
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support. We're sorry that we didn't get all the boards
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out there, and thanxs to you callers we've been able to
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include many more systems. And to those that told us
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their systems should be up in the MAJOR PIRATE SITES,
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the selection is based on User Voting/Comments on Several
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Local Boards.
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Its June now, 6 months in the Running, and we're
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going strong!
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Special Thanxs to The Software Polluter, and Leoman
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for their numerous additions to this month's issue.
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!LEGENDS! ___
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Thx FLiGHT Fer Couriering! Think You Could Fly?? |+ - |_\ || FLiGHT!
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-------------------- END OF THEIR PHUCKING LAME TEXT --------------
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Kindly kill these dumb fuckers if you find them and nuke them off
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any bulletin board they might surface on !!!
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Yours truly
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- TC -
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( you know i never give away my handle in these things )
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Feel free to reach me on Mirage if you can get on there... I live
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to get your feedback and see these things published in the disk mags.
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