From agonzalez@mindspring.com Mon Aug 28 05:25:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!agonzalez From: agonzalez@mindspring.com (Astrid González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug28.052545.8385@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 05:25:45 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Astrid González SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From mandersson@cmu.edu Tue Aug 29 12:25:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!mandersson From: mandersson@cmu.edu (Mateo Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug29.122545.6033@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:25:45 GMT References: <1995Aug28.052545.8385@mindspring.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug28.052545.8385@mindspring.com>, agonzalez@mindspring.com (Astrid González) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > 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? -- Mateo Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From slaurent@kth.se Wed Aug 30 04:05:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!slaurent From: slaurent@kth.se (Seo-yeon Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug30.040545.4191@kth.se> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:05:45 GMT References: <1995Aug28.052545.8385@mindspring.com> <1995Aug29.122545.6033@cmu.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug29.122545.6033@cmu.edu>, mandersson@cmu.edu (Mateo Andersson) 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 Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From astewart@cmu.edu Wed Aug 30 19:41:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!astewart From: astewart@cmu.edu (Anja Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug30.194145.5675@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:41:45 GMT References: <1995Aug28.052545.8385@mindspring.com> <1995Aug29.122545.6033@cmu.edu> <1995Aug30.040545.4191@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug30.040545.4191@kth.se>, slaurent@kth.se (Seo-yeon Laurent) 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Anja Stewart | astewart@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F2D8 EA18 F1B3 6253 "Keep the channels open."