From mduarte@illinois.edu Thu Aug 08 05:57:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!mduarte From: mduarte@illinois.edu (Morag Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 05:57:04 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Morag Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From blopez@demon.co.uk Thu Aug 08 16:51:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!blopez From: blopez@demon.co.uk (Brian López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Aug08.165104.8196@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 16:51:04 GMT References: <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu>, mduarte@illinois.edu (Morag Duarte) 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. -- Brian López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From slee@rwth-aachen.de Thu Aug 08 22:25:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!slee From: slee@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Aug08.222504.4822@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 22:25:04 GMT References: <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu> <1996Aug08.165104.8196@demon.co.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug08.165104.8196@demon.co.uk>, blopez@demon.co.uk (Brian López) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Seo-yeon Lee US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hold for relay." From lkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Aug 10 23:51:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lucia Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Aug10.235104.7761@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:51:04 GMT References: <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu> <1996Aug08.165104.8196@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug08.165104.8196@demon.co.uk>, blopez@demon.co.uk (Brian López) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. 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. -- Lucia Karlsson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From msmirnov@pacbell.net Sun Aug 11 14:32:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!msmirnov From: msmirnov@pacbell.net (Mateo Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Aug11.143204.1548@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:32:04 GMT References: <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug08.055704.7057@illinois.edu>, mduarte@illinois.edu (Morag Duarte) 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. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Mateo Smirnov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------