From mtakahashi@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jan 23 19:42:52 1996
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From: mtakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Matthias Takahashi)
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Subject: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen.
A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night.

The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else.

-- 
=== Matthias Takahashi ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik
"Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."

From bsato@hanse.de Thu Jan 25 11:21:52 1996
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From: bsato@hanse.de (Bastien Sato)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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In article <1996Jan23.194252.5858@rwth-aachen.de>, mtakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Matthias Takahashi) writes:
> Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.
> Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen.

My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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Bastien Sato | bsato@hanse.de
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From gdubois@netcom.com Fri Jan 26 08:40:52 1996
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From: gdubois@netcom.com (Graham Dubois)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:40:52 GMT
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In article <1996Jan23.194252.5858@rwth-aachen.de>, mtakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Matthias Takahashi) writes:
> Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions.

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Graham Dubois
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