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Group Reviews:
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This is the editorial portion of our newsletter where we (OK, I) give
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opinions of various groups. Here goes:
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The first group we are going to "review" is TPU. TPU is a new group
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that stands for, with alternating caps removed for your viewing pleasure, The
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People Upstairs. I recently got my hot little hands on their first release,
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Elite Acro List v1.0. Lo and behold, it was none other than BTW's Cheat Sheet
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repackaged! It took us HOURS to assemble it, and five minutes for them to hack
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it!
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I called up their WHQ to flame those lamers! I logged on, filled out
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the usual crap, sent my validation letter, and got full access to all elite
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areas! I didn't have to get validated! Any fed could have called up, filled
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out (even blatantly phony info) and busted 'em in all of five minutes!
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While I was there, I checked out their file bases. They had TWO! One
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was "TPU releases" and had THREE files in it! I downloaded another release of
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theirs (one was the acro list and one was 1.5 megs and I didn't feel like
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racking up my phone bill too much.) The transfer was fast (it was a 50K file)
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and error-free.
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When I got it back onto my computer, I tried to unzip it. The ZIP was
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corrupt! Off of their WHQ! I PKZIPFIXed it and extracted a semi-working "K00L
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3Li+3 TrAnSlAtOr". Pathetic, I tell you, utterly pathetic. I ran it. First I
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saw their logo. Amateurish as all hell. Must have took 'em five whole
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minutes.
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Then I translated their NFO file for the hell of it. I looked at the
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results. They had stripped it of all CR/LFs. It was just one big jumble! And
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the translation was to high-bit ASCII. Someone ought to tell these guys that
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high-bit ASCII went out with alternating caps, if not earlier! All in all, TPU
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is the lamest group I've EVER seen.
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The next group we'll review is NWO. NWO stands for New World Order.
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History students may notice that was a slogan used by none other than Adolf
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Hitler. Also, it's a group "of Asians, by Asians, and for Asians". Nice
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attitude to have, eh?
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As is discussed in Scene News, PE & MAD recently merged to form a group
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called "The FiRM Inc." While I do wish them the best of luck and everything,
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maybe they should have used a more original name. Astute readers of my Cheat
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Sheet (by far the best acronym list in the business!) will notice that FiRM is
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already used by another group to mean "First in Releasing the Most". Sorry,
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The FiRM Inc.
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Two more REDICULOUSLY overused acronyms are MAD and ATM. *PLEASE*
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don't use 'em... Think of something a bit more original!
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Well, I found yet ANOTHER Cheat Sheet hack... This one by Matrixx
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[UBiC]... I called up Black Sunshine, which he is co of... As soon as I
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logged on, I got locked out! Why? Because these fucking jerks don't want to
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hear MY anger over the theft of a BTW release!
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I know this isn't exactly a group but TWATINFO.ZIP *REALLY* pissed me
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off! It was someone (who called himself "2 Elite 4 U") bashing SWaT. I d/led
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it and read it. After the fifteenth time 2E4U called CyberChrist (the
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President of SWaT) CyberCrud, it started to get boring.
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Maybe 2E4U should have checked who else he was hurting before he
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parodized SWaT as TWaT. As some of you may know, one of the precursors of
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this group was called TWaT, for Text Writerz and Traderz. That article was one
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of the reasons why BTW was formed.
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One of the main criticisms that 2E4U has of SWaT is that it recently
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expelled several seinor staffers. 2E4U also says that 2E4U is a nom de plume
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he adopted for this article. My hypothesis is that 2E4U is a disgruntled
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former senior staffer of SWaT who adopted a handle to protect his credibility.
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Several others have bashed groups & BBSes when they got thrown out, most
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notably The Producer's ANTI-TUN.ZIP.
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Well, that's enough bashing for this issue. Just a reminder: the above
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does not represent the opinions of either BTW or of any of its members.
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Finally, cya next issue.
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- (Compilation of Anonymous Submissions)
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