From adubois@uu.net Thu Dec 19 08:20:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!adubois From: adubois@uu.net (Aiko Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec19.082027.9882@uu.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:20:27 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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.' -- Aiko Dubois -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Do not worship the copy." From sstewart@clari.net Thu Dec 19 17:36:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!sstewart From: sstewart@clari.net (Sven Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec19.173627.9584@clari.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:36:27 GMT References: <1996Dec19.082027.9882@uu.net> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Dec19.082027.9882@uu.net>, adubois@uu.net (Aiko Dubois) writes: > 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Sven Stewart Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From fgarcia@cern.ch Fri Dec 20 03:40:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!fgarcia From: fgarcia@cern.ch (Freya García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec20.034027.9874@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 03:40:27 GMT References: <1996Dec19.082027.9882@uu.net> <1996Dec19.173627.9584@clari.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec19.173627.9584@clari.net>, sstewart@clari.net (Sven Stewart) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Freya García Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"