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Text File #6 :::. Amphetamine Gobbler
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ :: :igital ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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15 February 1994 :::' Mongoloid Telecom
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'A Prelude to Discourse on Telecom'
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And YEA - shalt one see that which is not. Or sumthin. Ok, here's
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text file nostalgia trivia... t-files used to be a way to say 'hi'
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to people you know just because you knew that everyone would end
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up seeing the thing. They were called 'greets' and then later that
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term applied more to the outgoing message on a codeline or VMB
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directory. Anyway, in that vein, might I go out on a limb to send
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a few greets before this t-file gets buzzing:
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Spirit of Entropy - the snare of the DDE, Nate - the silly
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Bohemian writer we know from Denny's, Danny B. - THE man to
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see, Deloris - the best mad phone woman in the world, and
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all of our friends from the JEW Krew (Ed, THC, Ziltron, Buck,
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and Iceboy) ... where have you all been? We need more
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Killian's! Oh... just kidding... the alcohol is nice but we
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also like yer company..
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... or was that Molson Ice?
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Ok, now on with the show.
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This is a chat that I happened to have with a sysop in the 510 area
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code. He and I have become modem buddies since then. It reveals
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some of the angst that the Enlightened feel when looking at the
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current situation of the modem world. Its something to read.
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Powerful Paul shakes off his stupor to address you...
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Geez, nice connection. OK, it's not quite setup yet. But I have a BILLION
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files on blue boxing and breaking into credit reporting systems that have
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been down for a billion years, and I htought they needed to be in a
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historical archive. It seemed a lot cooler before I actually looked at it.
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Oh, no.. it looks good. Actually, its better cuz you know.. most of the hp
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files around today have been around forfuckinever and so.. people get
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confused and do bad things that get them in trouble in 1994 Bell Affiliate
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security technology, you know?
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Exactly! See, there's maybe..........1/50th of the files on here that are
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still applicable. Most of 'em were written when we were on XBar, and if you
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do that shit now, they lock you up. But people don't understand that.
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This way I was hoping people could be more wary of believing what they
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read...
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That's actually a good idea. You know, that pisses me off that more text
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files aren't being written lately. Before (lke 2-3 yrs ago) t-files would be
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uploaded like everyday.. original ones. The telecom scene - at least where I
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am is seriously deficient in the creative process.
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Tell me about it. This place used to have an active H/P message base, but
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no one has posted on it in YEARS. Some people got busted, most of 'em
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just got real jobs and didn't have time anymore. But ALL of them recognized
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how much harder it was getting to hide...
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Yeah, I wouldn't even care if it wasn't all hp shit though. Just ANYTHING.
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Shawn-dlb, for instance. Geez, I would never see something like that
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nowadays and if I went and did something like that, most people wouldn't
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appreciate it anyway.
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Yes! There used to be a million groups who would just write text files.
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That's it. cDc and all that. Well, I guess they're still around, but I'm
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not sure. Nobody does it anymore. I actually never really thought about it.
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Maybe it's because everybody got big modems and hard drives and just started
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downloading games all the time...
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Maybe. But the boards in 216 used to be really good... now, each one of them
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seems like there should be a big Xerox stamp right on them... anyone with
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Renegade, a modem and a CD_Rom slaps up a BBS and expects it to be the best.
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I want BBS'es with personality ... character ... a little heart dammit!
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sniff
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Damn straight! See, I think everybody SHOULD have their own BBS. Because
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everybody SHOULD have their own character, and a BBS is really just an
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extenstion of the sysop's character, with flavoring thrown in by the user
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base. A buddy of mine once described it as "the sysop's mind laid bare for
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all the users to pick at and play around in." But when you just get
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Renegade start-up menus and put up message bases called, "General,"
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"IBM," "Mac," it makes me SICK!
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Yes! Exactly! Wow.. all of us should move and make our own area code,
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hehe.. but I see BBS'es as just another expression of art ... sort of
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an electronic aestheticism, if that's a word. People who just slap it
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up make me ill. Anyway, I think you get the point.. we seem to be
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right on the same wavelength.
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Indeed. I like you. Maybe I'll have to call your board. Damn long
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distance companies. At least it's probably cheaper to call Ohio
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than LA these days...
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Yeah, Pacific Bell is probably just as big a rapist as Ohio Bell is.
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Yeah, they're all the same. (grrrr.) Makes you wish it WEREN'T so hard to
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get free phone calls these days...
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A meeting of the minds, to say the very least...
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WARNING: A RANT/RAVE IS ABOUT TO OCCUR.
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Anyway, a few more thoughts on telecom. Bulletin boards must be
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viewed from an aesthetic perspective. BBS'es are a work of art.
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They are a form of communication that allows a lot of creative
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interpretation. Unfortunately, most sysops see themselves as
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technicians instead of artists. This is bad. A good bulletin
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board has character ... spirit ... life. A CD-Rom and an Internet
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feed does not make substance.
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Another final thought that just came to me. Truth is the proper
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evaluation of subjective circumstance. Proper evaluation, in its
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most pure form, would require ALL information about a situation.
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I mean an abstract view of information ... every scrap of data
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that is in existence would have to be represented. Thus, the
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most accessible information is, the amount of truth rises in
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direct proportion. We can conclude then that we should strive
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for freedom of information, to uphold truth..
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Or sumthin.
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Anyway, that's it.
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`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'
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Distorted Digital Erection February 1994 Text File #6
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DDE is fully supported on the Necropolis BBS
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216.966.8970 - subterranean telecom - All TEXT!
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vaginal yeast infections are worse, much worse..
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Submissions are accepted. Send your t-file submission to Sorc, on
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the Necropolis. If using a new account, (I)nclude the file with
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the New User Application.
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CHECK for MORE Distorted Digital Erection in the NEAR future!
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TCC in CHECK! ... and assorted tales of erect rodentia!...
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`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'
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-eof-
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