From rnilsson@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 20 01:34:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!rnilsson From: rnilsson@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec20.013433.3038@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 01:34:33 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. 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.' -- Renata Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From anovak@hanse.de Wed Dec 20 06:23:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!anovak From: anovak@hanse.de (Anton Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec20.062333.7595@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 06:23:33 GMT References: <1995Dec20.013433.3038@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec20.013433.3038@rwth-aachen.de>, rnilsson@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Nilsson) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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? Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Anton Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From ilarsson@berkeley.edu Wed Dec 20 19:25:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!ilarsson From: ilarsson@berkeley.edu (Ines Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec20.192533.4742@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 19:25:33 GMT References: <1995Dec20.013433.3038@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Dec20.062333.7595@hanse.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec20.062333.7595@hanse.de>, anovak@hanse.de (Anton Novak) 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? > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- === Ines Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "When every node is whole, the channel opens."