:::. :: :istorted :::' Text File #6 :::. Amphetamine Gobbler ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ :: :igital ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 15 February 1994 :::' Mongoloid Telecom :::: ::. rection :::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 'A Prelude to Discourse on Telecom' And YEA - shalt one see that which is not. Or sumthin. Ok, here's text file nostalgia trivia... t-files used to be a way to say 'hi' to people you know just because you knew that everyone would end up seeing the thing. They were called 'greets' and then later that term applied more to the outgoing message on a codeline or VMB directory. Anyway, in that vein, might I go out on a limb to send a few greets before this t-file gets buzzing: Spirit of Entropy - the snare of the DDE, Nate - the silly Bohemian writer we know from Denny's, Danny B. - THE man to see, Deloris - the best mad phone woman in the world, and all of our friends from the JEW Krew (Ed, THC, Ziltron, Buck, and Iceboy) ... where have you all been? We need more Killian's! Oh... just kidding... the alcohol is nice but we also like yer company.. ... or was that Molson Ice? Ok, now on with the show. This is a chat that I happened to have with a sysop in the 510 area code. He and I have become modem buddies since then. It reveals some of the angst that the Enlightened feel when looking at the current situation of the modem world. Its something to read. Powerful Paul shakes off his stupor to address you... Geez, nice connection. OK, it's not quite setup yet. But I have a BILLION files on blue boxing and breaking into credit reporting systems that have been down for a billion years, and I htought they needed to be in a historical archive. It seemed a lot cooler before I actually looked at it. Oh, no.. it looks good. Actually, its better cuz you know.. most of the hp files around today have been around forfuckinever and so.. people get confused and do bad things that get them in trouble in 1994 Bell Affiliate security technology, you know? Exactly! See, there's maybe..........1/50th of the files on here that are still applicable. Most of 'em were written when we were on XBar, and if you do that shit now, they lock you up. But people don't understand that. This way I was hoping people could be more wary of believing what they read... That's actually a good idea. You know, that pisses me off that more text files aren't being written lately. Before (lke 2-3 yrs ago) t-files would be uploaded like everyday.. original ones. The telecom scene - at least where I am is seriously deficient in the creative process. Tell me about it. This place used to have an active H/P message base, but no one has posted on it in YEARS. Some people got busted, most of 'em just got real jobs and didn't have time anymore. But ALL of them recognized how much harder it was getting to hide... Yeah, I wouldn't even care if it wasn't all hp shit though. Just ANYTHING. Shawn-dlb, for instance. Geez, I would never see something like that nowadays and if I went and did something like that, most people wouldn't appreciate it anyway. Yes! There used to be a million groups who would just write text files. That's it. cDc and all that. Well, I guess they're still around, but I'm not sure. Nobody does it anymore. I actually never really thought about it. Maybe it's because everybody got big modems and hard drives and just started downloading games all the time... Maybe. But the boards in 216 used to be really good... now, each one of them seems like there should be a big Xerox stamp right on them... anyone with Renegade, a modem and a CD_Rom slaps up a BBS and expects it to be the best. I want BBS'es with personality ... character ... a little heart dammit! sniff Damn straight! See, I think everybody SHOULD have their own BBS. Because everybody SHOULD have their own character, and a BBS is really just an extenstion of the sysop's character, with flavoring thrown in by the user base. A buddy of mine once described it as "the sysop's mind laid bare for all the users to pick at and play around in." But when you just get Renegade start-up menus and put up message bases called, "General," "IBM," "Mac," it makes me SICK! Yes! Exactly! Wow.. all of us should move and make our own area code, hehe.. but I see BBS'es as just another expression of art ... sort of an electronic aestheticism, if that's a word. People who just slap it up make me ill. Anyway, I think you get the point.. we seem to be right on the same wavelength. Indeed. I like you. Maybe I'll have to call your board. Damn long distance companies. At least it's probably cheaper to call Ohio than LA these days... Yeah, Pacific Bell is probably just as big a rapist as Ohio Bell is. Yeah, they're all the same. (grrrr.) Makes you wish it WEREN'T so hard to get free phone calls these days... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A meeting of the minds, to say the very least... WARNING: A RANT/RAVE IS ABOUT TO OCCUR. Anyway, a few more thoughts on telecom. Bulletin boards must be viewed from an aesthetic perspective. BBS'es are a work of art. They are a form of communication that allows a lot of creative interpretation. Unfortunately, most sysops see themselves as technicians instead of artists. This is bad. A good bulletin board has character ... spirit ... life. A CD-Rom and an Internet feed does not make substance. Another final thought that just came to me. Truth is the proper evaluation of subjective circumstance. Proper evaluation, in its most pure form, would require ALL information about a situation. I mean an abstract view of information ... every scrap of data that is in existence would have to be represented. Thus, the most accessible information is, the amount of truth rises in direct proportion. We can conclude then that we should strive for freedom of information, to uphold truth.. Or sumthin. Anyway, that's it. `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' Distorted Digital Erection February 1994 Text File #6 DDE is fully supported on the Necropolis BBS 216.966.8970 - subterranean telecom - All TEXT! vaginal yeast infections are worse, much worse.. Submissions are accepted. Send your t-file submission to Sorc, on the Necropolis. If using a new account, (I)nclude the file with the New User Application. CHECK for MORE Distorted Digital Erection in the NEAR future! TCC in CHECK! ... and assorted tales of erect rodentia!... `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' -eof-