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Proudly Present
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Another
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Phucked Phreak Production
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*708/808-7629** **Saturday-February 16, 1991** **Vol #5*
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* 10:18:27 AM *
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* Computing Society And The Rest Of The World Pt. 1 *
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** **
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* Written By: The Wizard *
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** **
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* CopyMUCH 1991 (M) Phucked Phreak Productions *
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
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prohibitting the free excercise thereof; or abbridging the freedom of
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speech or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to
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assemble, and to petition the Goverment for a redress of grievances"
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Under the above Law set forth in the First Amendment To The Constution
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Of The United States Of America, The Author releases this work into the
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pubic domain for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
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Pre-Introduction
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What follows is an introduction to a series of files I intend to write,
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called Computing Society. I don't know if I'll ever finish, and I really
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don't know if I'll write a second file. ((Granted, it would be a fairly
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short series if I only did just this one.))
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Basically, I'm writing about anything that comes to mind about how the
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computer illiterate world has been brainwashed into thinking that
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there's a big underground network of little unscrupulous people who want
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to steal your credit card and crash national defense systems using their
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Apple Computer. ((Apple computer will get it's own section later on,
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and believe me, it won't be pretty.))
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Without further crap from me, I give you, the introduction to, Computing
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Society.
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Introduction
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There's a whole society out there right now. If you've never heard of any
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of the terms or stories following this, then there will be a companion file
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available shortly which lists any terms that aren't common knowledge to
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any user with a brain cell.
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The objective is this:I want to introduce the alleged "computer underground"
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to the rest of the computer users in America, (and anywhere else that there
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are misconceptions.) I want to show you that we're not scheming lunatics
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who have set out to take over America using our Apple IIe's and a modem.
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I want to show that people who insist on using handles on a system
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aren't deranged paranoid lunatics who are bent on the destruction of the
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world, we're simply people who have name recognition using a handle, (in
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the 708 area code, I'm known enough to get access to systems that
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someone with a name like Joe Blow couldn't get access to. Now that I've
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finished kissing my own butt, I'll continue.))
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I have a question for you. I'll answer it to, because this is supposed to
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be interesting light reading, not a research 101 course via netmail.
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How many people in America are computer literate? Probably a great
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number of the ones under 21 can at least use computer without being
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totally scared. How many of these people know how to do more than run a
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word processor and how to select files? Probably not many. I'd be
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willing to bet that the people who can't do much more than select files
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have been brainwashed into thinking that there is a "computer
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underground", where dangerous information is traded freely, money is
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stolen in great amounts, and things are just generally fucked with by
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people who are really familiar with their computers. Maybe they've seen
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Wargames a few too many times, who knows where they get this stuff. I
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know that in my 8th grade computers class a few years back, our teacher
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passed out a note for our parents to read w hich basically said that
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some students were playing games at school, and they shouldn't. He then
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expounded on the sources of these games as being "Software Pirates". He
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then devoted five pages to his moral opinion of "these ruthless
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criminals who are a danger to society" and "Why they break the law."
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Besides the fact that he's making it appear to be a capital offense to
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understand how to back-up a game you just paid fifty bucks for, he also
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has basically added to the big brainwash that software pirat es are
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"ruthless criminals" and "dangers to society."
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Obviously, this is a big pile of shit, but never the less, people believe
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it.
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For instance, a couple of weeks ago, I was in our writing lab at school,
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(a bunch of Mac Pluses networked to an SE/30) and I was just screwing
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around waiting for the bell to ring. I was reading the information file
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for the Mac Finder, when this really whiney fat bitch said "Hey, what
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are you doing TO the finder? Trying to crash the network, eh? Well,
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you just close that right up, you're banned from the room!"
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So, because I knew how to use a computer, I was told that I couldn't
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return to our wonderful writing lab, (there's more to this story.)
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Luckily enough, I talked to the person who was in charge, (she actually
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knows what's going on) and she explained to the other person, (the fat
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whiney bitch) that I wasn't hurting anything by reading an information
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file. (I did, however, come back a little later and sent a nice little
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piece of hate email to the person who made problems for me. God I love
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LANs.... ;) ) Just an example of the persecution of a person who knew
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how to use a computer.
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Then there's the SS action against Dr. Ripco, and his legendary board,
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Ripco International.
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The system was confiscated in conjunction with the other Operation Sun
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Devil "busts", (I use the term confiscation with Dr. Ripco because no
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charges have been filed at this writing, nine months later.) Nobody
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seems to be able to explain the system's confiscation. The sysop, (who
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has more credib ility than I do) says there was nothing illegal going on
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on the board, except for a small transfer section, (which didn't have
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any software from any companies that were still in business) and that
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was so tiny that to for the time and effort wasted, it would've been
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easier to simply issue a "cease and desist" order. SS sources say that
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the system was "A major component in the computer underground network in
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America."
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But, I have to ask one quick question.
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What the fuck is a "computer underground network"? I've been around the
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"pirate" modem community for close to six years now, using various
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handles, and I've been on almost every system in my area code at least
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once. I haven't even heard ANYTHING about an organized "Underground
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Network."
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Yes, there were, (probably still are too) systems where credit card
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information gets passed from person to person, but not once in my six
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years of experience, have I once seen or even heard remotely of a
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concentrated "network" of CC Pirates.
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Regardless, the system was taken without any explanation. The statute
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of limitations on computer related offenses is ten years. The Secret
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Service took at least $15,000 in computer equiptment from the Doc's
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store, (most of it wasn't even connected to Ripco in anyway.
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((According to Dr. Ripco, two of his personal Macintosh computers were
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taken along with the computer that the BBS ran on, because, quote "the
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cords and cables were all tangled together, and the SS people thought
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that the computers were somehow networked, even though I didn't have
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ANY networking equiptment around."))) In all likelyhood, he won't see
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his computer equiptment for another nine years, if ever, or until his
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attorney retains an order that forces the SS to give it all back,
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(snowball's chance in hell.)
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There may have beeb people passing info, but it was in email. ((Email,
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when using the bbs program that Ripco ran under, is unreadable by the
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sysop unless he logs on as the user whose mail he wants to read, reads
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it, then logs off.))
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Many people are probably saying that "the sysyop should've deleted users
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posting illegal information." The thing is, I'm sure the sysop didn't
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know that anyone was doing this. He did have a big rules section saying
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"Don't Do This Or You're Leaving For Good." If he had known, he
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probably would've done something about it.
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Just like the post office does. Everybody knows that there are things
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available by mail that are not totally on the up and up. (I.e. Music
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clubs, "start your own business" flyers, etc.) The postmaster general
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investigates and then files charges against wrongdoers.
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What was done at Ripco was like this. The government saw a system that
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represented "dangerous" ((to their free ride jobs)) thoughts and ideas,
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so they closed it down. To cover this up, they went after other systems
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in America that actually WERE doing something illegal.
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This is equivalent to encountering someone pulling a mail-order fraud
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scam, and shutting down the U.S. Postal system. Is our government
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supposed to work like this?
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No. They're supposed to find out who is breaking the law, gather
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information, and punish them, not every user of our great (ha!) postal
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system. By taking Ripco apart, the Secret Service has decided to
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enforce justice "a la Reagan Drug Policy style." They've decided to
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punish the five hundred plus regular users by taking away their massive
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information source, and taking away the oldest system around, without a
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trial, and without filing any charges.
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Somebody in a position of power should be saying "HEY! You guys are
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violating his rights!" I guess that's what I'm doing. The problem is,
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that I'm just some stupid high school student whose opinion doesn't
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REALLY count because "You're not of voting age, and you're therefore not
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a voter, so I should just sit down and kindly shut the fuck up."
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Frankly, this type of attitude is what is pushing America towards it's
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eventual downfall as a Democracy into a socialistic police state.
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I know this sounds kind of alarmist, but look at the enforcement of the
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so called "Rico" laws. They were designed during Prohibition to punish
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alcohol trafficers quickly. The work something like this. A person who
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was arrested could have his or her possesions confiscated without any
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charges being filed, and without being found guilty. This sounds a lot
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like what made our forefathers leave their respective nations and move
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here.
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"The land of the free and the home of the brave." There are still brave
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people around, but free is a dwindling thing. Nowadays, it's illegal,
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(at least it is in some suburbs of Chicago) to park your pickup truck
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in your driveway. Pardon my saying so, but that sounds like
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discrimination against people who own pickup trucks.
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(Excuse me, someone has just corrected me that it is in fact illegal to
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park any type of truck in your driveway. My mistake.)
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Conclusion (Sort Of)
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--------------------
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This is nowhere near the end of this file. Simply the introduction.
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I guess I'll stop writing when I'm done.
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Though I'll be damned if I know when that is.
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Disclaimer:I hereby want to say that if you don't like my anti-government
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bias, then fuck off and die. Someone has to be biased in favor of
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computer users somewhere along the line. Any information that is
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incorrect will be corrected in future files, (I of course reserve the rightto tell you to go to hell over little stupid things like
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using //'s to represent roman numerals instead of the correct II.)
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Spelling errors won't be fixed, because there are tons of them, and
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I don't have a spell checker.
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You can leave comments to me at any of the systems below. Or, if you're reading this and you're faraway, send me some netmail. My addresses are
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below also.
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System Name Usr. Number Phone Number
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---------------------------------------------------
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The Cage 8 708/945-3665
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Jackass BBS 156 708/808-7629
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Silver Tongue 65 708/759-1916
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Ripco International THE WIZARD 312/528-5020
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ProLine: wizz.trm@pro-harvest
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Internet: wizz.trm@pro-harvest.cts.com
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UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!wizz.trm
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ARPA:crash!pro-harvest!wizz.trm@nosc.mil
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If you are intrested in joining our writing staff, please contact the
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SysOp at the BBS below.
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