From eweber@utexas.edu Wed May 10 20:10:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!eweber From: eweber@utexas.edu (Elaine Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995May10.201044.7704@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 20:10:44 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu 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. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Elaine Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ccampbell@uu.net Thu May 11 20:31:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!ccampbell From: ccampbell@uu.net (Camila Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995May11.203144.8052@uu.net> Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 20:31:44 GMT References: <1995May10.201044.7704@utexas.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995May10.201044.7704@utexas.edu>, eweber@utexas.edu (Elaine Weber) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Camila Campbell Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.