From smuller@mit.edu Tue Mar 08 02:12:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!smuller From: smuller@mit.edu (Steve Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar08.021241.8933@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 02:12:41 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Steve Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mchoi@tum.de Wed Mar 09 22:31:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!mchoi From: mchoi@tum.de (Mei Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar09.223141.8906@tum.de> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 22:31:41 GMT References: <1994Mar08.021241.8933@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar08.021241.8933@mit.edu>, smuller@mit.edu (Steve Müller) 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. -- Mei Choi | mchoi@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: 3BD4 5402 4163 4863 "Keep the channels open." From emoreno@hanse.de Thu Mar 10 02:16:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!emoreno From: emoreno@hanse.de (Elaine Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar10.021641.2488@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 02:16:41 GMT References: <1994Mar08.021241.8933@mit.edu> <1994Mar09.223141.8906@tum.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar09.223141.8906@tum.de>, mchoi@tum.de (Mei Choi) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Elaine Moreno Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From egarcia@berkeley.edu Sat Mar 12 04:37:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!egarcia From: egarcia@berkeley.edu (Elaine García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar12.043741.1619@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 04:37:41 GMT References: <1994Mar08.021241.8933@mit.edu> <1994Mar09.223141.8906@tum.de> <1994Mar10.021641.2488@hanse.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar10.021641.2488@hanse.de>, emoreno@hanse.de (Elaine Moreno) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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. -- Elaine García -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."