From nramirez@pipeline.com Sat Jul 01 20:16:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!nramirez From: nramirez@pipeline.com (Nadine Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul01.201603.5922@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 20:16:03 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Nadine Ramírez -- The Pipeline Internet Network "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From msilva@panix.com Mon Jul 03 04:17:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!msilva From: msilva@panix.com (Mateo Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul03.041703.6591@panix.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 04:17:03 GMT References: <1995Jul01.201603.5922@pipeline.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul01.201603.5922@pipeline.com>, nramirez@pipeline.com (Nadine Ramírez) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Mateo Silva US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From spark@titech.ac.jp Tue Jul 04 19:20:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!spark From: spark@titech.ac.jp (Seo-yeon Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul04.192003.2383@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 19:20:03 GMT References: <1995Jul01.201603.5922@pipeline.com> <1995Jul03.041703.6591@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul03.041703.6591@panix.com>, msilva@panix.com (Mateo Silva) writes: > Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Seo-yeon Park -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."