From tweber@pipeline.com Thu Aug 01 18:25:41 1996
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From: tweber@pipeline.com (Tomas Weber)
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Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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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.
A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night.

The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.'

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Tomas Weber
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From clopez@demon.co.uk Fri Aug 02 13:48:41 1996
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From: clopez@demon.co.uk (Callum López)
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Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 13:48:41 GMT
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In article <1996Aug01.182541.6562@pipeline.com>, tweber@pipeline.com (Tomas Weber) writes:
> 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.

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?

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Callum López
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From lnovak@ox.ac.uk Sat Aug 03 22:40:41 1996
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From: lnovak@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Novak)
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Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 22:40:41 GMT
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In article <1996Aug01.182541.6562@pipeline.com>, tweber@pipeline.com (Tomas Weber) 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.

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Lucia Novak -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."