Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 12:22:04 PST Reply-To: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Yvsg lbhe nezf, jngpu lbhe xarrf, naq rkvg gb gur yrsg, cyrnfr) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0024] DIGEST: networks, gopher, WAX, jed, flat tires, Hacker Groups Keywords: surfpunk | I agree -- your MX is phuqued. | -- jpd@nwu.edu |________________________________________ Here are several items, related only in the fifth-dimesionsal cosmic consciousness. Subject: Subgenius Digest V3 #217 Subject: networking Subject: Networks Subject: Re: Gopher+ Considered Harmful Subject: "WAX" in San Francisco (Help!) + other playdates Subject: The Story of the Anti-Jed Subject: Slack and Flat Tires in Manila Subject: Hacker Groups - Distribute Freely --strick ________________________________________________________________________ Reply-To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Subgenius Digest V3 #217 To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Sender: charlie@rtfm.mlb.fl.us Subgenius Digest Fri, 1 Jan 93 Volume 3 : Issue 217 ------------------------------ From: "D. V. Henkel-Wallace" Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 15:15:05 EST Message-Id: <9212312015.AA00439@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: networking The current issue of the Economist, as is its wont each year, rates organizations that have "networking" value (like the trilateral commission, Skull and Bones, etc). This year's list of the world's most significant include: o - Internet and Usenet o - The Illuminati Ominously, these two are numbers 2^4 and 17 on the list! ------------------------------ Message-Id: <9212311741.AA08664@media.mit.edu> To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Networks Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 12:41:27 -0500 From: Michael Travers The year-end issue of The Economist has an article on "influential networks" that mentions both the Internet and Bavarian Illuminati, not to mention such lesser organizations as Opus Dei, The Freemasons, and the Communist Party. ________________________________________________________________________ From: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu (Mark P. McCahill) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: Re: Gopher+ Considered Harmful Date: 14 Dec 92 15:28:10 GMT Organization: Universty of Minnesota >In article Marc Andreessen, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu writes: >What are the standards by which a networked information system can be >judged to be ``past critical mass''? > >Obviously gopher is past critical mass so far as campus-wide >information servers go, but that's a very minor part of the >information processing realm -- a fact that kills your general >argument. Right? Or is your statement implicitly qualified and I'm >just not noticing it? I looked at the log on our main gopher server and saw that between November 2 and December 7 there were 35,135 different machines that contacted our main server, and there were 1,006,275 requests (transactions) done by the server. About 75% of this is from outside the University of Minnesota. I don't know if this qualifies as critical mass though :-). ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 16:21:52 EST From: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (Artist # 1) To: future@isis.cs.du.edu Subject: "WAX" in San Francisco (Help!) + other playdates A request for HELP here, as well as the bi-monthly posting of where my film is playing, in case you want to catch it. =========================================================== "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00) =========================================================== WAX opened on Friday (Jan. 1st) at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. Due to a negative synergy apparently common the last several months between the papers and the houses that show independent films, there were NO REVIEWS for the opening, as far as I know. So if you live in San Francisco, and have any familiarity with the film, could you please mention it to people you know. As luck would have it, there was at least a really good writeup by Richard Kadrey in the winter Whole Earth Review (RK also wrote a review in Mondo back in August)... but it is really word of mouth which will save this run. The number at the Roxie is : (415) 863 1087 The film moves over to the UC in Berkeley on Friday, Jan. 8, for 2 days, (9 shows). There is are some new chances for press there, but I am afraid that the same situation may hold true... so, hello Berkeley... are you out there? If you know about WAX, please tell someone else about it. If you don't know anything about the film, you can write me, and I will send you a text file (about 70k now) with newspaper reviews, and a variety of descriptions; included are some net reviews I either found, or was lucky enough to have forwarded on to me. The film has already made 2 "10 best" lists here in New York (NY Press and another). You can write me at: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (my name is David Blair) Obviously, I am self-distributing, in case you wonder why I have taken the taking the liberty of posting. ------------- Following are some quotes, to warm you up, then the listing of playdates up until spring: William Gibson (author, Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc.) on WAX: "Authentically peculiar. Like something from the network vaults of an alternate universe." William T. Vollman (author, "You Bright and Risen Angels", "The Iceshirt", "The Rainbow Stories", all Penguin/Viking Press) "I admire your dark and paranoid visions in all of their intergalactic complexity." Larry McCaffery (editor, "Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook on Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction", Duke University Press): "WAX strikes me as a truly major accomplishment, intellectually rich, verbally inventive, visually stunning, and -- perhaps most remarkable of all -- as emotionally resonant as any film I've come across in recent years." Brooks Landon (author, "Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking SF Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production", Greenwood Press) "WAX is like no movie you have ever seen. Call it postmodern, postcyberpunk... or post cinema, the point is this 85 minute celebration of the possibilities of "electronic cinema" may well indicate the future direction of SF film, if not "film" itself. Timothy Leary "WAX is a treat for the eyeballs, a delight for the receptor sites, a brilliant illumination for our left brains and our right brains!" Here are the screenings: Jan. 1-7 Roxie, San Francisco Sat, Sun: 2,4,6,8,10 / Mon-Thur 6,8,10 (except no show Wed. at 8) (on film) Jan. 8.9 UC, Berkeley Friday: 5,7,9,11 / Sat: 1,3,5,7,9 [I deleted all the other dates ... they're in Chicago and Edinborough and places like that ... :) --m] ________________________________________________________________________ From: charlie@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Charles Edward Patisaul) Message-Id: <9212312118.AA03513@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> Subject: The Story of the Anti-Jed To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (Surfpunk Technical Journal) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:18:25 EST Originating from the Sunny Seaside Sub-Tropical Paradise of Melbourne, FL USA X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] I don't know if the subscribers of the SurfPunk Technical Journal are familiar with the famous Brother Jed, but if not all one must do is substitute your favorite self-righteous wandering in-your-face evangelist. Brother Jed tours College Campuses across the United State as part of his Campus Ministry USA Tour. He always has an entourage of disciples studying in the art of condemning HO-MOH-SEX-YOU-ALLS (much handwaving), anyone wearing spandex (lusty, lusty, lusty), red-headed women (the color of their hair is the color of their heart, and red is the color of the satan), actually anywomen who are freethinkers (the last time I saw his wife Sister Cindy, she was literally barefoot AND pregnant), all college females are semen swallowing fornicating whores, and we're all enrolled in the college of destruction majoring in eternal damnation. I have seen Brother Jed wave the bible dare people to find passages in there that say anything against him, and then when the entire membership of AEPi (a jewish fraternity) start yelling quotes back in unison he carries on as if nothing has happened, he typically doesn't respond to questions ans such from the audience but one time I happened to see him talking to a large group of black students who had asked him about slavery in the bible, he tried to explain that some races were just plain made inferior to others so that they could serve others. I just mention this to show that he sometimes is using bad judgement in talking to folks. So here follows salvation, the story of the anti-jed... [from alt.brother-jed] >From alt.brother-jed Thu Dec 31 16:02:34 1992 Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed Path: rtfm.mlb.fl.us!mlb.semi.harris.com!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!Msu.oscs.montana.edu!uphrrmk From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu Subject: the Anti-Jed Message-ID: <00965D1E.113CD5C0@Msu.oscs.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu Organization: Montana State University Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:23:42 GMT Lines: 51 Someone wrote me a wonderful letter asking me to tell the tale of the anti-Jed. Gather "round, keeds, 'Cos Auntie Maim has a story for you! It began at the University of Minnesota Campus, where Jed isn't seen around much anymore. Maybe he felt he couldn't tame this hotbed of Homma-sexuals, pagans, hoodlums, and Wiiiild Rebels. Maybe the Sister Cindy Lookalike contest was partly responsible. Or maybe it was the anti-Jed. Rumors of the anti-Jed sprang up a few years ago, When a few friends of mine started their chapter of the Campus Crusade for Cthuhlu.(Remember, Keeds, Cthuhlu Cthaves!) This was the same year a guy stood in front of Coffman Union giving $100 dollars to all the students there who were working their way through college. He was rumored to be the anti-Jed. The anti-Jed was supposed to be the exact opposite of Brother Jed...kind, tolerant, friendly,with a sense of humor and a penchant for worshipping street meters and the odd Express Teller Machine.(put in your donation to the Money God, fill out the Sacrifice forms, and if the Money God is pleased, he'll spit out money for you. If the Money God isn't pleased, he will chew up your card, and never give it back.) In fact, the anti-Jed was rumored to be several people, just because there were reports of him EVERYWHERE. People would follow lines of chalk that connected into a huge pentacle with The anti-Jed standing in the middle in bikini briefs, sunglasses, and usually holding discussions about bisexuality in Congress, the proper sacrifices to the Killer Squirrels who hung out near campus, (large, rude and scruffy beings, who insisted on snacks. Squirrel muggings were rumored in Northrup Mall, and they would saunter into classrooms looking for food. They were The anti-Jed's totem animals.) Sometimes Brother Jed would be haranguing a group of students, and the most pointed, embarrasing questions would silence him for a couple of minutes, or trip him into saying something insanely stupid. We had no doubt it was an Anti-Jed in one of his incarnations.For Example: The AJ: If all americans worshipped Jesus, would all the dry oil wells flow again? The Jed-a-roni: Yes, they would. AJ: So you're saying that God and Jesus is holding oil, and therefore our economy hostage until every man, woman, and child is Born Again? Yes, the anti-Jed managed to make Brother Jed admit that God was an Eco-terrorist.(Eco for economy and environment.) Sometimes Brother Jed would look haggard, gray faced and dull eyed. We hypothesized that the Anti-Jed must have been haunting his concience with rationality, kindness, and other thoughts that were alien to his nature. Not long after, he left, and hasn't been seen for a few years now. Probably for easier prey--like the students of MSU in Montana, where I now live. Heh he hee. Though I can't be the dark and scruffy specter that the anti-Jed was back home at the U of M, I can go on in the spirit he forged in us... This spring, I'm going to mobilize somestreet theater, to be ready when Jed or his sidekicks appear to win the hearts of the poor kids here. Elvis worship, with a translator for Elvis-ese and Brother-Jed-ese. The anti-Jed would have wanted it that way. Ignorance and hate is fatal, La Mort. -- Charles E. Patisaul charlie@rtfm.mlb.fl.us Melbourne, Florida USA ________________________________________________________________________ To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Slack and Flat Tires in Manila Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 10:54:53 -0600 From: humphrie@ssc.wisc.edu Quoted from a wire story by Eileen Guerrero, AP: MANILA, Philippines -- Convinced flat tires were the key to salvation, religious cultists deflated tires on scores of buses and cars Monday, paralyzing traffic throughout the city. ... "This is God's order to let out air," said Honora Dimagila, 44, who was arrested Monday. "Air is from God. This is the solution to the crisis in our country." Cults enjoy a wide following in the Philippines, the only predominately Roman Catholic country in Asia. The military has sponsored anti-Communist cults, whose members believe sacred amulets protect them from bullets. [The kevlar flak jackets from the Great Satan in DC probably help too.] Handbills distributed by the cult, called the Reserved Manpower of the Good Wisdom for All Nations, said deflating tires was, "God's way of stopping bad deeds." The handbills promised a new era of equality and social justice, including a daily wage of $30 for everyone. This is certainly more innocuous than American cultists who argue the only way to get social justice will be by putting Women, Lesbians, Gays and the Bill of Rights to the torch. ________________________________________________________________________ From /PN=GMP.M.ZELL/O=PAC.MAIL/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com Tue Jan 5 09:12:37 1993 To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com Subject: Hacker Groups - Distribute Freely Message-Id: <"MGJD-5504-5559/08"*/PN=GMP.M.ZELL/O=PAC.MAIL/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com> From: MCKEEMAN at MZ-Atlanta Date: 1/5/93 11:47AM Got this file in the mail along with other stuff yesterday - I'll try to send you more. Darren (Quasimodem) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> Subdivisions <> <> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ <> <> Part Three Of The Vicious Circle Trilogy <> <> <> <> A Study On The Occurrence Of Groups <> <> Within The Community <> <> <> <> Presented by Knight Lightning <> <> August 8, 1988 <> <> <> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> A Rose By Any Other Name... Would Smell As Sweet =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-= The Administration \ Advanced Telecommunications, Inc./ATI ALIAS \ American Tone Travelers \ Anarchy Inc. \ Apple Mafia The Association \ Atlantic Pirates Guild/APG \ Bad Ass Mother Fuckers/BAMF Bellcore \ Bell Shock Force/BSF \ Black Bag \ Camorra \ C&M Productions Catholics Anonymous \ Chaos Computer Club \ Chief Executive Officers/CEO Circle Of Death \ Circle Of Deneb \ Club X \ Coalition of Hi-Tech Pirates/CHP Coast-To-Coast \ Corrupt Computing \ Cult Of The Dead Cow/-cDc- Custom Retaliations \ Damage Inc. \ D&B Communications \ The Dange Gang Dec Hunters \ Digital Gang/DG \ DPAK \ Eastern Alliance The Elite Hackers Guild \ Elite Phreakers and Hackers Club The Elite Society Of America \ EPG \ Executives Of Crime \ Extasyy (Elite) Fargo 4A \ Farmers Of Doom/FOD \ The Federation \ Feds R Us \ First Class Five O \ Five Star \ Force Hackers \ The 414s \ Hack-A-Trip Hackers Of America/HOA \ High Mountain Hackers \ High Society \ The Hitchhikers IBM Syndicate \ The Ice Pirates Imperial Warlords \ Inner Circle Inner Circle II \ Insanity Inc. International Computer Underground Bandits/ICUB \ Justice League of America/JLA Kaos Inc. \ Knights Of Shadow/KOS \ Knights Of The Round Table/KOTRT League Of Adepts/LOA \ Legion Of Doom/LOD \ Legion Of Hackers/LOH Lords Of Chaos \ Lunatic Labs, Unlimited \ Master Hackers \ MAD! The Marauders \ MD/PhD \ Metal Communications, Inc./MCI MetalliBashers, Inc./MBI \ Metro Communications \ Midwest Pirates Guild/MPG NASA Elite \ The NATO Association \ Neon Knights \ Nihilist Order Order Of The Rose \ OSS \ Pacific Pirates Guild/PPG \ Phantom Access Associates PHido PHreaks \ Phlash \ PhoneLine Phantoms/PLP Phone Phreakers Of America/PPOA \ Phortune 500/P500 Phreak Hack Delinquents \ Phreak Hack Destroyers Phreakers, Hackers, And Laundromat Employees Gang/PHALSE Gang Phreaks Against Geeks/PAG \ Phreaks Against Phreaks Against Geeks/PAP Phreaks and Hackers of America \ Phreaks Anonymous World Wide/PAWW Project Genesis \ The Punk Mafia/TPM \ The Racketeers Red Dawn Text Files/RDTF \ Roscoe Gang \ SABRE \ Secret Circle of Pirates/SCP Secret Service \ 707 Club \ Shadow Brotherhood \ Sharp Inc. \ 65C02 Elite Spectral Force \ Star League \ Stowaways \ Strata-Crackers \ The Phrim Team Hackers '86 \ Team Hackers '87 \ TeleComputist Newsletter Staff Tribunal Of Knowledge/TOK \ Triple Entente \ Turn Over And Die Syndrome/TOADS 300 Club \ 1200 Club \ 2300 Club \ 2600 Club \ 2601 Club \ 2AF \ Ware Brigade The Warelords \ WASP \ The United Soft WareZ Force/TuSwF United Technical Underground/UTU - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Its literally unbelievable just how many different groups and organizations there are or have been in the phreak/hack/pirate community. The list of 130 groups displayed above is probably still just a fraction of the actual amount of groups that there have been, but those are the only ones I am aware of at this time. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to , subscription requests to . MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. 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