From acampbell@cern.ch Tue Aug 09 00:53:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!acampbell From: acampbell@cern.ch (Anja Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 00:53:35 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- === Anja Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From drodriguez@uu.net Tue Aug 09 19:46:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!drodriguez From: drodriguez@uu.net (Dong-hyun Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug09.194635.6715@uu.net> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 19:46:35 GMT References: <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch>, acampbell@cern.ch (Anja Campbell) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Dong-hyun Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mjohansson@mindspring.com Thu Aug 11 09:14:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!mjohansson From: mjohansson@mindspring.com (Mei Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug11.091435.1936@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 09:14:35 GMT References: <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch> <1994Aug09.194635.6715@uu.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug09.194635.6715@uu.net>, drodriguez@uu.net (Dong-hyun Rodríguez) writes: > My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Mei Johansson | mjohansson@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: ED17 55C8 0248 7CC2 "Keep the channels open." From adubois@uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug 12 00:18:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!adubois From: adubois@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug12.001835.5818@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 00:18:35 GMT References: <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch> <1994Aug09.194635.6715@uu.net> <1994Aug11.091435.1936@mindspring.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug11.091435.1936@mindspring.com>, mjohansson@mindspring.com (Mei Johansson) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Astrid Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jmoreno@illinois.edu Sat Aug 13 09:57:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!jmoreno From: jmoreno@illinois.edu (Joachim Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Aug13.095735.2762@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 09:57:35 GMT References: <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug09.005335.1681@cern.ch>, acampbell@cern.ch (Anja Campbell) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Joachim Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.