From eperez@tum.de Sat Sep 17 13:14:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!eperez From: eperez@tum.de (Élodie Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep17.131459.7082@tum.de> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 13:14:59 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Élodie Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From fsokolov@hanse.de Sat Sep 17 22:28:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!fsokolov From: fsokolov@hanse.de (Fiona Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep17.222859.1097@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 22:28:59 GMT References: <1994Sep17.131459.7082@tum.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Sep17.131459.7082@tum.de>, eperez@tum.de (Élodie Pérez) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Fiona Sokolov Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Sep 19 21:10:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!tkowalski From: tkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tyler Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep19.211059.9720@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 21:10:59 GMT References: <1994Sep17.131459.7082@tum.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Sep17.131459.7082@tum.de>, eperez@tum.de (Élodie Pérez) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. 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? -- Tyler Kowalski Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.