From hjohansson@mindspring.com Thu May 05 18:07:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!hjohansson From: hjohansson@mindspring.com (Hana Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 18:07:54 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. -- Hana Johansson | hjohansson@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: FDA4 DB72 6BF0 357F "Keep the channels open." From ntakahashi@stanford.edu Sat May 07 19:30:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!ntakahashi From: ntakahashi@stanford.edu (Nadine Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May07.193054.4265@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 07 May 1994 19:30:54 GMT References: <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com>, hjohansson@mindspring.com (Hana Johansson) 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. 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? -- Nadine Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From iramirez@demon.co.uk Sun May 08 13:48:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!iramirez From: iramirez@demon.co.uk (Ines Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May08.134854.7288@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 08 May 1994 13:48:54 GMT References: <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com> <1994May07.193054.4265@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994May07.193054.4265@stanford.edu>, ntakahashi@stanford.edu (Nadine Takahashi) 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? I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Ines Ramírez -- Demon Internet Services UK "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From kkuznetsov@clari.net Tue May 10 08:51:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!kkuznetsov From: kkuznetsov@clari.net (Karen Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May10.085154.1196@clari.net> Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 08:51:54 GMT References: <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com> <1994May07.193054.4265@stanford.edu> <1994May08.134854.7288@demon.co.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994May08.134854.7288@demon.co.uk>, iramirez@demon.co.uk (Ines Ramírez) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Karen Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From spark@illinois.edu Thu May 12 12:09:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!spark From: spark@illinois.edu (Sun-mi Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May12.120954.5886@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 12:09:54 GMT References: <1994May05.180754.8266@mindspring.com> <1994May07.193054.4265@stanford.edu> <1994May08.134854.7288@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994May08.134854.7288@demon.co.uk>, iramirez@demon.co.uk (Ines Ramírez) 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. -- Sun-mi Park -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy."