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CYBER RIGHTS NOW!
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|CRN!| \
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)ASCII by Bone(
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Newsletter 3
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****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE****
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I. Introduction
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II. A Matter of Fairness
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Why software copy protection is unfair
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to individuals with disabilities
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III. E-Mail Addresses for Sale
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IV. Jesus Takes Over the Internet
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V. 5 Reasons Why Online Services Are Dying
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VI. AOL4FREE - Can I get Caught?
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VII. AOL and USENET Abuse
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VIII. Little Thing on Technology
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\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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INTRODUCTION
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by Bone
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Looking at the articles in this Issue I'd say CRN! is actually looking
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a bit on the classy side. We have some really good articles for you this time.
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I actually only wrote one article this time. The rest were submitted by
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CRN! members. Some of whom have some serious talent.
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CRN! now has over 225 registered users and keeps growing daily!
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Our distribution also seems to be growing.
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Hopefully CRN! will continue to grow to a real force in the computer
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world. I have no intention of becoming like C|Net or anything like that. I
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don't want to be a pansy to the corporate world (even though I work in it :( ).
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I just want CRN! to be recognized as a voice in the computer world.
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I'm actually out of words. On with the articles.
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* <= Tribble * <=Tribble's evil cousin Skippy
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- Bone
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A MATTER OF FAIRNESS:
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WHY SOFTWARE COPY PROTECTION IS UNFAIR TO INDIVIDUALS
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WITH DISABILITIES
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By Belgarion
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Before I begin I would like to apologize for the necessity of a pseudonym.
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You see my job focuses on providing information regarding assistive
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technology and, more specifically, how to adapt computers for people with
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disabilities. However, since a good portion of my job deals with working
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with many many computer software and hardware companies I have a concern
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that just ONE may look unfavorably upon my opinions. This, in turn, could
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lead to said company refusing to work with us, which in turn could cause
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some individual to not be able to use a piece of software they would want
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to. In addition, there is also always the possibility of my superiors not
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appreciating this either (they are perfectly fine with what I do, they just
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share the same concern that I do). Anyway, on to the focus of this article.
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As previously mentioned I try to help individuals with disabilities adapt
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computers, both hardware and software for their use. I work with
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individuals of all ages and functioning abilities. The software we adapt is
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also equally as varied. I have helped to set up computers for children with
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Cerebral Palsy and adults who are paralyzed from the neck down. Today one
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of the largest obstacles for independent computer usage continues to be
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software copy protection. What is designed to save (or make) the companies
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a few extra dollars is actually eliminating a potential revenue source that
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is pretty impressive. How impressive? Microsoft has an entire team devoted
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to making Windows 95 easier to use by individuals with disabilities (there
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are notes about it when you install the software, in the manual, and an icon
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in the Control Panel - they obviously take it seriously). According to
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Microsoft's Computer Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities, "it is
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estimated that there are over 30 million people in the United States alone
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that could be affected by computer design." That's a lot of buying power
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and if the big M$ took note it's surprising that so many other companies
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remain ignorant.
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Of all the software available three types of software cause the most problems:
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a) Document check - It is fairly difficulty for an individual using a
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headmouse (an ultrasonic device that is worn on the head an allows for full
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mouse control, the user moves their head to move the cursor and blows into a
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straw to click the mouse button) to turn to page 33 and look at word 6 on
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line 5 paragraph 3. While add-on TSR software, such as virtual keyboards
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that work in conjunction with a headmouse, allow for 'typing' by the
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individual, they are still unable to access the documentation. Thus, they
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can no longer independently use the software.
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b) CD Check and key disk - Again, an individual who is unable to
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functionally swap CD's or disks is condemned to use the one in the drive or
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not use the program at all. I know that some CD's are required to be
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present due to the vast amount of information required, and that disk towers
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are available. I am specifically pointing to those programs that could
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reasonably fit onto a hard drive but deliberately require the CD to be present.
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C) Dongle - Possibly the worst of them all the dongle, frequently
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employed by high-power CAD and other professional software, can actually
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prevent a professional from doing their job. I recently gave a copy of
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the 3D Studios 4 patch to an individual who is quadriplegic. The person
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was so happy that he actually had tears in his eyes. He had wanted to
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use the software for over a year however his adaptive hardware used the
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parallel port and was not compatible with the dongle requires to run
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3D-Studios. The patch helped to solve this problem.
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It is important to recognize that I do not advocate for illegally pirating
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software. I am only trying to point out how certain practices can vastly
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effect a group of individuals who should be , but rarely are, taken into
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account by the software developers. I wonder how some of the companies
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would react if Christopher Reeve wrote them and told them he would love to
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use their product but can't because of the document check...
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So what do I do? I keep a library of patches for available software.
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Copyware has also been kind enough to regularly provide us with Neverlock to
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demonstrate how programs can be modified to avoid things like document
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checks and key disks. I also provide location information of FTP or WWW
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sites where cracks are available (I can't keep copies of cracks that are
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modified portions of the actual code - it's illegal ;) ). I also try to
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keep a few other tricks up my sleeve...
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Anyway, this was just one person's perspective. While I am sure that there
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are some who agree and some who disagree I think that (for the most part)
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people feel that EVERYONE should be able to use software. If you would like
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more information on adapting computers take a look in Yahoo. They have a
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pretty good list of links and can get you pointed in the right direction.
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I can also be reached at AN369067@ANON.PENET.FI. If you have any a major
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problem or emergency I am sure that Bone will be able to find me...
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-Belgarion
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E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR SALE
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by Intaglio
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Junkmail - don't you hate receiving it? I always felt it was a
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terrible waste of paper. Do you really want to deal with it on
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the net, too? What a waste of bandwidth and storage space. let
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your voice be heard. Send a short message to the companies who
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want to exploit our privacy for their economic gain. Share this
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message with your electronic community. Don't let them play on
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the apathy that has already allowed them to commercialize the
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net to such a degree.
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The following message taken from a cpsr newsletter
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--snip--
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The Marketry company of Bellvue, Washington is now selling email
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addresses of Internet users obtained from Newsgroup postings. From
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the company's press release:
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"These are email address of individuals who are actively using
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the Internet to obtain and transfer information. They have
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demonstrated a substantial interest in specific area of information
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on the Internet. They are regularly accessing information in their
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interest areas from newsgroups, Internet chats and websites. . . .
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The file is anticipated to grow at the rate of 250,000 E Mail
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addresses per month, all with Interest selections."
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What are the interest areas currently available? "Adult, Computer,
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Sports, Science, Education, News, Investor, Games, Entertainment
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Religion, Pets." The release notes that "additional interests areas
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will be added, please inquire." Activities of US and non-US Net users
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will be included in the Marketry product.
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The Washington Post reported that the president of Markertry, Norm
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Swent, would not disclose who the actual owner of the list is. "That
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really is confidential information," Swent said, "and we are obviously
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bound by confidentiality agreements with the list owner."
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WHAT YOU CAN DO:
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(a) Sit back, let your newsgroup postings get swept up by the data
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scavengers and watch the junk email pile high on your system, or
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(b) Send email to Marketry and tell them to STOP SELLING PERSONAL
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DATA GATHERED FROM THE NET. Send email to: listpeople@marketry.com
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and tell your friends to send email. And tell your friends' friends.
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It's your name. It's your mailbox. Think about it.
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JESUS TAKES OVER THE INTERNET!
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Letter provided by ANONYMOUS
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Comments by Bone
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First let me state that this is the first time I am commenting
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on something in a way I think may piss some people off. Let me state
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that I believe noone has ANY right to push their beliefs on someone
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else. Let it also be know that I am agnostic (not atheist). This
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was brought on by 8 years of private catholic school (the type
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where they did hit you...hard) and a better than average IQ.
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These comments reflect the way I am towards people who
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try to regulate others lives. I have nothing against God. If he does
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exist I picture him as a big warm guy who when you reach heaven
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will say "It's OK, you screwed up, everyone does" and give you a big
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warm hug. Not a "throw the sinner is hell" type of god.
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Anyway, anything starting in *** is me (Bone).
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> >Message-ID: <030313Z02101995@anon.penet.fi>
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> >Path: nntp4.mindspring.com!matlock.mindspring.com!
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> >news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!news..eunet..fi!anon..penet..fi
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> >Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
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> >From: an388076@anon.penet.fi (DiannaLeach)
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> >X-Anonymously-To: alt.aol-sucks
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> >Organization: Anonymous forwarding service
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> >Reply-To: an388076@anon.penet.fi
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> >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 03:01:05 UTC
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> >Subject: My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, the almighty
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> >father
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> >Lines: 102
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> >Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
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> >Hello all, this is once again Mrs. Dianna Leech writing to you
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> >from my secure account within the Internet at America OnLine.
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> >Over the last several weeks I have been only to post messages
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> >to this message board on a sporadic basis. You see, I have been
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> >out fighting in Washington D.C., for Christian values for one and
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> >all. I hope to be able to write more within the next couple of days
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> >and weeks and months to come.
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> >I see that there has been some debate as to whether or not I am Dawn
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> >or whether I am Mimi. Why can't you people just accept the fact, that
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> >I am who I am and that is Mrs. Dianna Leach. For those of you not
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> >familiar with me, I am here to bring TOS to all the world. I will
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> >bring AOL's TOS to every corner of the earth that has an Internet
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> >connection -- it must be done in Jesus name.
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*** What is your quest?
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*** I seek the Holy Grail!
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*** What is your favorite color....
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> >After reading several hundred back messages in this group, I am
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> >concerned about the direction it is taking -- but I also see some
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> >progress. I see many more Christian women and men speaking up in
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> >this discussion group who come from AOL. They are coming to defend
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> >their morals and beliefs that the Internet is a vile disgusting place for
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> >the worlds children to have to visit.
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*** You don't like it??? Don't use it! You don't eat a food you don't like.
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> > They understand that AOL is a
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> >Christian community where we love one another and we can learn and
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> >grow in this love. They understand that TOS is a well written
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> >document that protects and defends Christian morals and values.
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*** Since when? I don't think it was Christian specific.
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> >AMEN.
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> > This must and will continue. I'm happy to see more and more AOLers
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> >and GNNers going out to all the Internet to spread the good news of
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> >TOS and Jesus Christ. Mr. Jordan, don't give up the fight for what
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> >you believe in.. God will send you a little miracle to let you know
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> >that he is working on the big ones -- like converting all of the
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> >Internet to AOL and TOS.
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*** God help us all :)
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> >One thing that is particularly troubling to me is that I have been
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> >seeing an ever increasing amount of obscene language and four letter
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> >words used in the messages in this message base. Dear friends, be
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> >warned that this type of behavior must not be continued any further.
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*** Shiver in fear!
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> >I am announcing my new policy of ZERO tolerance for those who use
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> >curse and blasphemy words. We must realize, that this mess age
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> >base is open to many children who may read these vulgar words.
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> >If you use them, I will take several steps. For one, I will send the letter
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> >to your sys admin with a copy of AOL's TOS to show them how you
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> >violated common decency standards.
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*** Since when did AOL set the rules? Ever hear of the Internet Society?
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*** Or even better, the CONSTITUTION???? Guess not...
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> > Next, I will forward to letter to
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> >AOL's TOS for future reference so that accounts may be terminated
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> >when AOL acquires all of the Internet.
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*** That will NEVER happen. If it does I'm going back to my hacking
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*** ways. BIGTIME.
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> > I'm sorry I have to resort to these
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> >tactics, but if you people can not abide by the voluntary rules that
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> >AOL and Jesus Christ have set up for the Internet in its TOS document,
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*** I checked the Internet Societies member list. Jesus didn't make the cut
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*** this year.
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> >then you will have to suffer the consequences. Note though, that you
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> >will also suffer the consequences at the right hand of Jesus Christ on
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> >judgment day as well. There is your warning -- please don't make me
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> >resort to this. Also, this includes *EVERYONE* who is a participant
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> >in this discussion group -- no one will be excluded (not even the all
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> >powerful CABAL members).
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> >Secondly, I think that we should eradicate all known homosexuals
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> >from participating in this discussion group.
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*** Can you say Bigot? Homosexuals (non flaming) are just regular
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*** people with different sexual preferences. Nothing else.
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> > Lets make this a place
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> >where we know our children will not be harmed. So, sorry Mr. Finley,
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> >you'll have to go, and you better take Mr. McCracken (ASCII Rider)
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> >with you, since we all really know that his sexual orientation leans
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> >toward homosexuality - despite his attempts to hit on me.
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*** To quote a little known document "All men are created equal".
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> >Third on my agenda, is to change the name of this group. The current
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> >one is inappropriate at best. S*cks is not appropriate language for
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*** SUCKS is a bad word??? Bart Simpsons says bitch on TV and
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*** SUCKS is a bad word???? That sucks.
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> >our christian children to be hearing. I'm open to suggestions on
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> >this one. My real hope would be to just kill this group and take our
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> >discussion over to alt.online-service.aol or something like that
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> >lets wait though and see what suggestions we get for new names for
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> >And finally, during this week that Jews celebrate their special
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> >holidays, lets all say a special prayer for them that they will
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> >with us in celebrating the body of our Lord and savior, Jesus
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> >Christ, the most holy one.
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*** My god woman, your a Christian Nazi!
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> >Well, there you have it people, three new agenda items -- short
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> >term goals for this newsgroup. The Christian Women's League
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> >long term goal of converting all of the Internet to AOL/TOS/Jesus
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*** You're going to be waiting a LONG time.
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> >Now, let us reflect on what Jesus has given us and thank him for
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> >that:
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> >Dear sweet Jesus, thank you again for providing the on-line community
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> >with AOL.
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*** If Jesus invented AOL I think he did a better job with the Chia Pet.
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> > We thank you for the Christian Fellowship that we all
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> >have come to enjoy on your network of choice. Thank you dear father
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> >for writing TOS for us as a guideline on how you want us to act in
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> >this day of global communications.
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*** Jesus is a technical writer for AOL? Must be working with Elvis.
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> > Dear Jesus, give us the strength to
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> >always do your will, and we know your will is to free the net of
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> >porn, homosexuality, and Christ haters. We know that only a powerful
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> >document and Christian AOL GUIDES can accomplish this feat, but we
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> >will do it in your name Jesus, forever and ever. AMEN. ALLELUIA!
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*** I keep getting flashes of Bill the Cat as Fundamental Bill and his
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*** quest against penguin lust (remember that one?).
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> >Sincerely and on behalf of HIS sorrowful passion,
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> >Mrs. Dianna Leach
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> >Christian Women's League
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> >
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*** I'm conducting a playful little survey.
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*** E-mail your answer to seaman@phobos.lib.iup.edu
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*** - - - - - - - - - -cut here- - - - - - - - - -
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*** This woman needs to:
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***
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*** A) get laid
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*** B) get the stick out of her ___________ (you fill it in)
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*** C) Realize all people(PC) are created equal.
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*** D) Realize that America was founded by people looking
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*** for religious freedom
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*** E) Go back to England during the middle ages when
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*** the churches ran everything
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*** F) Realize that if God really cared famine, war, and
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*** plagues would not be happening.
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*** G) (you fill in)
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***
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*** Choose one and send it to Bone. Results will be in
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*** the next newsletter!
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***
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*** - - - - - - - - - -cut here- - - - - - - - - -
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5 REASONS WHY ONLINE SERVICES ARE DYING
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by Marty Robinson
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There was a very interesting article in the Atlanta Journal-
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Constitution today. It's a reprint from the Orange County Register and
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was written by Stephen Lynch.
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This isn't the whole article, just the top 5 reasons online
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services are on the way out.
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"1- They can't keep up with growth. AOL Spokeswoman Pam McGraw says the
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service receives more than 4 million e-mail messages a day from outside
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providers - but that volume forces delivery delays of about two hours.
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Unlike the Web, which is scattered across a worldwide computer network,
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commercial services route all their subscribers through the same
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bottleneck and the users are charged for the delays.
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2- Too many graphics. Even on a high-speed modem, one page on (the online
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services) can take forever to load. MSN spokesman Bill Miller says that
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his service has been criticized by some users for it's abundant photos -
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"from the result of us pushing the envelope." Make that "the result of
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trying to make more money." On the Web, if something is taking too long to
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load, you hit "Stop" and go elsewhere. Commercial services, in an effort
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to run up your bill, make you load and load and load.
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3- They are losing their content providers. Almost everything you can find
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on a commercial service can be found on the Web. And more content
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providers are leaving the companies in favor of a broader audience.
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4- They've become blockades, not gateways. Commercial services have
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realized the Web is the way to go, and the Big Four all feature browsers
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to surf the general Internet. But to access the Web through AOL is to go
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to New York by the way of Alaska.
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5- They know they are dying. AOL is starting a direct Internet service. So
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is CompuServe. Microsoft tried to by 20 percent of Netscape. Apple
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Computer is transforming the World into a direct Internet service."
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Mr. Lynch goes on to give one reason why online services are still not extinct:
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"One reason why commercial providers aren't dying: No one has invested in
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a national service that you can load on your computer, double-click and
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boom, Web access. Until that happens, easy-to-use commercial services may
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still cling to Internet newbies, who are good for at least six months
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before they realize they are being suckered."
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****************************************************************
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AOL4FREE - CAN I GET CAUGHT?
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by ANONYMOUS
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A better question would be 'would they want to prosecute me if I'm
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caught?' The answer depends on how easy it is to catch and trace you. A
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little more than a week ago, certain persons in the underground community
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found a security hole which allowed them to sign on any AOL account
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without needing a password. While browsing around some TOS accounts, they
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found EMAIL concerning AOL4Free. The letter you've all been massmailed in
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the hack rooms explains how AOL can detect usage of AOL4Free. However, I
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have managed to get my hands on a fuller version of the letter within
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which AOL Staff admits plans to take legal action against AOL4Free
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users.
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Check it out:
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-----------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, Sep 4, 1995 1:52 PM EDT
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From: Appelman
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Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
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To: lippke@aol.net
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Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
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Please supply her with the list of screen names. This will get
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interesting.
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Barry
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--------------
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Forwarded Message:
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Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 4:32 PM EDT
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From: MayLiang
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Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
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To: Appelman
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cc: Dphillips, JMCHURCH
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Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
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Barry--
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This is great! I talked to Jane and what we need is a list of screen
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names only (no member names or addresses--those need to be subpoenaed)of
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the aol4free people. We then should get verification from TOS and then
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hand them over to the Secret Service, but those are things you don't
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|
have to worry about. So you may start whenever you're ready!
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May
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P.S. How's the patent application looking? :)
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--------------
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Forwarded Message:
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Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 12:26 PM EDT
|
||
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From: Appelman
|
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Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
|
||
|
To: MayLiang
|
||
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||
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Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
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||
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||
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These people are idable as stealing time. I think we have enough? to go
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|
forward with legal action. We are ready whenever you are.
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|
Barry
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--------------
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Forwarded Message:
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||
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|
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Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 10:11 AM EDT
|
||
|
From: Lippke
|
||
|
Subj: AOL4FREE detector
|
||
|
To: KHuntsman, Steiny, JHunter
|
||
|
cc: Appelman, X066TR
|
||
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|
||
|
Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
|
||
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|
||
|
Heh heh heh .. looks like we've got a reliable AOL4FREE detector. If
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||
|
you filter the log for "CMis" you'll come up with what seems to be a
|
||
|
reliable list of AOL4FREE users. The CMis message is being output by the
|
||
|
terminal handler when it gets a holding area update carried in by a
|
||
|
q_context that doesn't have the same UID as the stored q_context. These
|
||
|
updates are all coming in from Library with the last token being set to
|
||
|
Dd.
|
||
|
Knowing that AOL4FREE sends in constant K1s and that K1 is marked
|
||
|
pre-login, I hypothesized that the thing must start sending in the swarms
|
||
|
of K1 tokens BEFORE the user is fully logged in --- and, sure enough,
|
||
|
when you look at the billing history of these folks, they pretty much all =
|
||
|
look normal until June (when AOL4FREE came out) and then they started racking
|
||
|
up 1000s of minutes of free time and almost no paid time.
|
||
|
With this bit of knowledge, we should be able to comb through the old
|
||
|
logs and come up with a fairly comprehensive hit list which could then =
|
||
|
be verified by TOS (although it looks like a positive lock!). Others can
|
||
|
decide what to do with them, but I have visions of all AOL4FREE hackers
|
||
|
getting simultaneously whacked. The prevention code still needs to go
|
||
|
into the TIH, but that'd sure send a shot over their bow! :-)
|
||
|
|
||
|
/David
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||
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|
||
|
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
||
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|
||
|
Looks pretty bad, doesn't it, with the Secret Service and everything.
|
||
|
But not to worry... with v4 of AOL4Free, you are much harder to detect!
|
||
|
|
||
|
You see, what AOL4Free does is send the free token after every
|
||
|
real token. When you are signing on, you send the 'Dd' token with you
|
||
|
screen name and password, and a free 'K1' token is sent afterward. However,
|
||
|
because you aren't really signed on yet, AOL sees the K1 token as a bug
|
||
|
and records it in a log. All the Network Ops people had to do is search
|
||
|
their logs for this bug and viola, they had their AOL4Free users.
|
||
|
|
||
|
v4 is modified so that it doesn't send the free token after 'Dd'. Users
|
||
|
of v4 are totally Stealth... they 'look' just like normal AOL users. The ONLY
|
||
|
way for AOL to identify them as AOL4Free users would be to record their
|
||
|
entire sessions... but with hundreds of thousands of mac users, how would
|
||
|
they pick out suspects? They could comb through billing records looking
|
||
|
for inordinate amounts of free time, but for privacy and technical reasons
|
||
|
this isn't feasible.
|
||
|
|
||
|
NOTE: If you're calling from the 800 number, logging in over TCP, or have
|
||
|
not disabled caller ID with *67 AOL CAN TRACE YOU WITH THE PRESS
|
||
|
OF A BUTTON. PLEASE, if you're on a fake account or doing anything highly
|
||
|
illegal, sign onto AOL only through your local number. They'll need a
|
||
|
court order to find you there.
|
||
|
|
||
|
***********************************************************
|
||
|
AOL AND USENET ABUSE
|
||
|
by Dr. Suess (Doc@CatnHat.net)
|
||
|
|
||
|
Recently I commented on my concerns about being removed
|
||
|
from my server at the request of America Online. Most would say this would
|
||
|
be inappropriate. My concerns derive from America Online's attitude that
|
||
|
they have the right to exercise control over FORMER America Online
|
||
|
members.
|
||
|
|
||
|
This truly reminds me of a movie, The Godfather, which is about
|
||
|
the Mafia and is an excellent movie despite Marlon Brando. Once a member
|
||
|
of the Mafia you can never leave except as a deceased member.
|
||
|
|
||
|
America Online seems to function the same way. Once a member
|
||
|
you will always belong to them. I am, like many, an ex-member of American
|
||
|
Online. I often refer to Steve Case as Cardinal Case. Perhaps I have been in
|
||
|
grevious error at great personal risk. Henceforth I will address him
|
||
|
with great respect as Don Case. I value my ISP account and would not
|
||
|
like to lose it nor become a member of the Federal Witness Protection
|
||
|
Program as I have enough difficulty keeping my name straight.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Please note the first word of the second sentence of the paragraph
|
||
|
immediately following the header.
|
||
|
|
||
|
**********
|
||
|
|
||
|
From: webedit@aol.net (Canceler Web Editor)
|
||
|
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.announce
|
||
|
Followup-To: poster
|
||
|
Subject: 6 Oct 1995: Abuse Report from AOL
|
||
|
Date: 9 Oct 1995 21:53:00 GMT
|
||
|
Organization: America Online
|
||
|
Message-ID: <45c5js$7l7@newstf01.news.aol.com>
|
||
|
|
||
|
This is an abbreviated report of USENET abuse by current and
|
||
|
ex-America Online members. Inclusion in this report indicates
|
||
|
that, as of this date, local action has been or is in the
|
||
|
process of being taken against the poster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
All inappropriate articles have been canceled. No further
|
||
|
reports about these users are necessary. To report an instance
|
||
|
of USENET abuse which doesn't appear on this report, send mail
|
||
|
to postmaster@aol.com - please remember to include a complete
|
||
|
copy of the USENET article, including all headers, to help us
|
||
|
quickly quash the abuse.
|
||
|
|
||
|
To make an emergency report of abuse, send complete copies of
|
||
|
the abuse to atropos@aol.net.
|
||
|
|
||
|
America Online's USENET Terms of Service (acceptable usage policies)
|
||
|
are available via anonymous FTP at
|
||
|
|
||
|
ftp://ftp.aol.com/pub/usenet/aol-usenet-aup.txt.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Comments, suggestions and criticisms are welcome via e-mail to
|
||
|
atropos@aol.net.
|
||
|
|
||
|
USER INCIDENTS (5+) DESCRIPTION (if appl.)
|
||
|
=====================================================
|
||
|
beachstdes 19 commercial
|
||
|
bluesees 5 monetary chain-letter
|
||
|
christo440 7 commercial
|
||
|
coolshari 1 non-binary in binary newsgroup
|
||
|
cwigley657 4 non-binary in binary newsgroup
|
||
|
hotbod2117 21 non-binary in binary newsgroup
|
||
|
jacenjen 5 commercial
|
||
|
juepaman 1 illegal activity
|
||
|
juepaman 46 illegal activity
|
||
|
juepaman 46 illegal activity
|
||
|
jvitaly 1 illegal activity
|
||
|
llyg 16 commercial
|
||
|
los1lag2 39 inappropriate/TERMINATED
|
||
|
rashr 8 inappropriate
|
||
|
sleuth1801 450 commercial
|
||
|
thofm0428 27 inappropriate
|
||
|
|
||
|
Ed Brundage
|
||
|
Internet Feedback, Response, and Information Team
|
||
|
America Online, Inc.
|
||
|
ifritfox@aol.com or foxman@aol.net
|
||
|
|
||
|
--
|
||
|
All postings to news.admin.net-abuse.announce are unconfirmed and
|
||
|
unverified unless stated otherwise by the moderators. All opinions
|
||
|
expressed above are considered the opinions of the original poster,
|
||
|
not the moderators or their respective employers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
For a copy of the guidelines to this group, see:
|
||
|
http://www.math.psu.edu/barr/net-abuse-guidelines.html
|
||
|
|
||
|
*************
|
||
|
|
||
|
Is this a matter of semantics or a matter of attitude? One nice thing
|
||
|
about me is that you will always know where I stand on an issue. I am
|
||
|
assertive, aggressive and tend to call it as it is rather than as I see
|
||
|
it. Based on my prior experiences with America OnMafia documented in
|
||
|
earlier posts I suspect this is an attitude problem.
|
||
|
|
||
|
"quickly quash" ? quash: crush; subdue
|
||
|
|
||
|
Kiralynne, a dubious lady of a thousand names and even more personalities.
|
||
|
|
||
|
hmmmm... thinking again... I wonder if the illegal activity was reported
|
||
|
to the appropriate authorities??
|
||
|
|
||
|
hmmmm... thinking again... if the activity was illegal why was the member
|
||
|
not terminated??
|
||
|
|
||
|
hmmmm...hee hee... inappropriate = terminated illegal = cancelled post
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hello?? Hello?? Anybody home?? Odd... the lights are on but...
|
||
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|
||
|
*************************************************************
|
||
|
LITTLE THING ON TECHNOLOGY
|
||
|
by Layne
|
||
|
|
||
|
Well, as you might know all of the good, high quality games out
|
||
|
today like Under the Killing Moon, Magic Carpet 2, and the others are
|
||
|
CD-ROM based games. You might see this as a problem because you are
|
||
|
being required to access the data as fast as possible AND even multiple
|
||
|
disks are becoming frequent. I am sure that most of you out there would
|
||
|
like to have many games. What I mean is that, sure you can install one
|
||
|
large CD game on your hard drive completely, but only one. Now what
|
||
|
current technology is working on is faster CD-ROM drives as well as
|
||
|
multiple drives on your home used PCs. For instance, remember when 2x
|
||
|
drives were first out, you thought WOW! Well, know I am seeing PCs that
|
||
|
come with 3 (yes 3!) 4x CD-ROM drives in your machine or try out the 6x
|
||
|
SCSI CD-ROM, that baby can cook. Well enough from that end.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Have you noticed that just a year ago Pentium was just coming out
|
||
|
and had all kinds of problems, and now you can own a little P-75 for just
|
||
|
under $1,500. These are probably the best kind of machine to own in the
|
||
|
home, unless your super rich and would prefer an SGI or SUNSparcstation.
|
||
|
The internet is expanding so fast that you must be connected or you will
|
||
|
be lost in less than a year. I mean, sooner or later there will be
|
||
|
multi-player interactive and fully graphical operating games. I mean
|
||
|
right now MUDs and MUSHs and IRCs seem really nice, but what about a
|
||
|
couple of years from now when something like Johnny Mneumonic comes to
|
||
|
life just about everyone will be fully immersed. Life as we know it
|
||
|
today will be gone and if you're not at least 10% cyber-literate then
|
||
|
you'll never know what's happening because it'll probably all be computer
|
||
|
updated.
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
********
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|
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|
-EOF
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