From hkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de Mon Nov 27 11:08:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!hkarlsson From: hkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov27.110859.2429@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:08:59 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Hana Karlsson | hkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: 9F7B 144C C9F2 32DF "Keep the channels open." From kmoreno@utexas.edu Mon Nov 27 21:02:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!kmoreno From: kmoreno@utexas.edu (Kenji Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov27.210259.2922@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 21:02:59 GMT References: <1995Nov27.110859.2429@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov27.110859.2429@uni-hamburg.de>, hkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Karlsson) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Kenji Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From mperez@mindspring.com Tue Nov 28 04:20:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!mperez From: mperez@mindspring.com (Mike Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov28.042059.8237@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 04:20:59 GMT References: <1995Nov27.110859.2429@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Nov27.210259.2922@utexas.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov27.210259.2922@utexas.edu>, kmoreno@utexas.edu (Kenji Moreno) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- === Mike Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "Do not worship the copy."