From bsantos@berkeley.edu Wed Aug 03 23:23:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!bsantos From: bsantos@berkeley.edu (Bill Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1994 23:23:04 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Bill Santos "Row 14. No joke." NeXTstation Turbo Color / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dmartinez@kth.se Thu Aug 04 20:13:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!dmartinez From: dmartinez@kth.se (Diego Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug04.201304.4023@kth.se> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1994 20:13:04 GMT References: <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu>, bsantos@berkeley.edu (Bill Santos) writes: > 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. 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. -- Diego Martínez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From klindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Aug 05 06:30:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!klindqvist From: klindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kirsty Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug05.063004.5921@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 1994 06:30:04 GMT References: <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu>, bsantos@berkeley.edu (Bill Santos) writes: > 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. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Kirsty Lindqvist "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From tperez@pacbell.net Fri Aug 05 21:13:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!tperez From: tperez@pacbell.net (Tomas Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug05.211304.2708@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 1994 21:13:04 GMT References: <1994Aug03.232304.4199@berkeley.edu> <1994Aug04.201304.4023@kth.se> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug04.201304.4023@kth.se>, dmartinez@kth.se (Diego Martínez) writes: > 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Tomas Pérez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------