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BLAST.famy
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volume 1 ish #10
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June 1995
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F _ A _ M _ Y
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SPECIAL Journalistic Integrity Issue!!!
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| "Don't let the facts get in the |
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| way of a good story." |
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| -Dan "Scoop" Miles" |
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A Private World E-zine.
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Back Issues: http://www.shmooze.net/pwcasual/ezines/blast
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Publisher = P. W. Casual, C.E.O, PWE; C.O.B, PWC pwcasual@shmooze.net
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Editor-in-Chief = Mark "Jr" Jeftovic, markjr@shmooze.net,
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http://www.shmooze.net/~markjr
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Subscriptions: email pwcasual@shmooze.net and say "Sign me Up!!"
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Stacy Tartar <Stacy.Tartar@lambada.oit.unc.edu> Everywhere Stiffs
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Jr's RRRrrrrrrrrant:
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Project MaCluhan on the Net <mclr@inforamp.net> alt.Patriots
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Nostradumus Predicts O.J. Trial!!!
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James McMartin
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Hope I Die Before I get Sold
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Joe J. Deagnon:
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Scent of Blood
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For Informational Purposes Only: FAQ. Better Living Through Forgery
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EVERYWHERE STIFFS
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Local news, cop-plots invade daydreams,
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Gun down stiffs at Dairy Queens.
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Every day my mind composes scenes,
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Mayhem, murder, piercing screams.
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Everywhere stiffs.
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Midday park, the
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Yellow sky not dark,
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Singing larks--then--
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Saber-toothed slice
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And dead 'neath bark!
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Everywhere stiffs.
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Rush hour highway driving back,
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Sudden hit, snipe atttack!
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Veering, skidding, head-on smack,
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Exploding mushroom, metal flack,
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And fourteen killed, right on track.
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Everywhere stiffs.
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Market, waiting there on line,
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Shiver shoots up-down your spine!
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Man in front reveals the sign for
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Stick-up, panic, terror-blind.
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Everywhere stiffs.
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Paranoia, maybe true.
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Maybe you're a victim, too.
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Or it may be that you will see
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A victim
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Of me.
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Everywhere stiffs.
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JR's Rant: <markjr@shmooze.net>
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"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one"
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There was a time when I thought that if the media told me something, there must
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be at least a semblance of credibility to it, since "the powers-that-be" must
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have put at least a modicum of forethought or investigative contemplation into
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the issue before throwing a multi-million (or thousand) dollar media
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apparattus behind it. Then I discovered cynicism, and I thought vested interests
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ruled the day, and I was a fool for allowing for any other motivation. Now I
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realize (or at least my current theory is) that it is PLAIN IGNORANCE that accounts
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for the lion's share of mass media's blundering today. Having glimpsed the inside
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of the beast, I glean a panicked "flying-by-the-seat-of-the-pants" fervour,
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coupled with a compulsive hard-on for "new spin" that moves media as we know it
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to hopelessly butcher virgin ripples in the space-time continuum that would
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otherwise be loosely described as "reality". When was the last time the
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mainstream media told you anything about "the internet" that you didn't
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already know? Was there a last time? Perhaps it's more accurate to ask when
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was the last time the mainstream media sounded halfway intelligent when
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commenting on the subject? It's all the same: "FTP means File Transfer Protocol.
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Virtual Communities abound on the Information Superhighway. The World Wibe Web is
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an explosively popular facet of the internet used by pedeophiles to trade kiddie
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porn, terrorists to obtain bomb-making schematics and racist organizations
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to disseminate hate literature...among other uses". In all the cyber-hype
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I have seen bandied about the press, I rarely, if ever, see it cited correctly.
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One of this city's "big three" suppliers of hamster-cage lining once ran
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an in-depth (ha!) overview of THE ROLLING STONES WEB PAGE!!!, complete with
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adorations of the ingenuity involved whilst praising their technological
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ground-breaking spirit and not once bothering with frivolous details like
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the god-damn URL. Herein lies the barb.
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Those pesky old-boys in the hallowed halls of the "we'll tell you" media aren't
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used to the idea that with an extra sentence of crytic techno-speak, any and all of
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the audience can verify or villify what they're on about for themselves. In fact,
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the rest of the piece could be dispensed with entirely. The tacit assumption
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seems to be, when the mainstream addresses the internet, that they are talking
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about "other people", as if nobody in their audience could concievably
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be involved in such a glamorous venture themselves. It's in the realm of
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experts, hackers, celebrities or diddlers. What's evident to me is the fact that
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all the pronouncements from the mainstream come from lowtech-peasants who clearly
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have NO UNDERSTANDING of the technology at hand. Whether it's our slick new
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premier-elect with his "Fake Usenet Posts Are A Threat to National Security"
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sleazeball political tactics, the daily press who actually took him seriously,
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or dillitente political science professors professing that the virtual virtual-ness
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of pan-neo-cyber-virtualism will virtualize everyone; it's "all nonsense dolled
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up to look like thinking". All I can really say is before they pump their
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lofty *conjectures* on an unwitting public, giving a cursory scan
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to the FAQ may not suffice, Read The Fuckin Manual.
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alt. Patriots
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Marshall McLuhan said many times that in a society in which technology has
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been allowed to run rampant, the driving quest for individual
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self-expression will cause borderline personalities to resort to violence
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as a means of self-discovery. That said, the Oklahoma bombing is more than
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that. How much more? We can t say for sure. But we do know that the
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emergence of secondary and tertiary modes of communication (such as what
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you are reading now!) allow in-depth probing into news stories on a level
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never before experienced in the history of this century. How many bombs
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actually went off in Oklahoma? The mainstream media says"one," but floating
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in Cyberspace on the Net you can now find a printout from a seismograph
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near the bomb site that suggests at least two explosions. Also floating in
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Cyberspace can be found extracts of intercepted ground transmissions from
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FBI agents at the site suggesting that a third device, more potent than the
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first two, was found unexploded. Conspiracy buffs looking for"motive" (they
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already have"means" and"opportunity") can also request electronic access to
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the text of Resolution No. 1047 passed in 1994 by the Oklahoma State
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Legislature protesting the so-called"New World Order." Oklahoma was the
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first state to pass such a resolution which includes the statement that
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(quote)"global government would mean the destruction of our constitution,
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and corruption of the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, our
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freedom, and our way of life" (unquote). If this sounds suspiciously like
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the agenda of many of the so-called"Patriot" movements, it is. Our sources
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also shared with us the fact that an announced"general meeting" of the
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Patriot movement in Philadelphia at the end of this year has been a source
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of annoyance to the federal authorities for some time. No less a source
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than Strategic Investment, the official newsletter from the authors of the
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publishing mega-hit THE GREAT RECKONING, repeated the rumours that federal
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forces had been planning a"search and destroy" mission on Patriot groups
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since March of this year. True? False? Sometimes, it seems, too much
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information is really too little...
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also from the MacLuhan Reader, included just for kicks:
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alt.Humour (Look for the hidden grievance!)
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A guide dog for the blind was given his last chance after he had led his
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first four owners to their deaths. The Alsatian, renamed Lucky because he
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survived so many close scrapes, is to be handed over to his fifth owner
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after intensive retraining.
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Lucky led his first owner in front of a moving bus and the second off the
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end of a pier," said his new trainer, Ernst Gerber, of Wuppertal,
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Germany."He actually pushed his third owner off a railway platform just as
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the Cologne to Frankfurt Express was approaching, and he walked his fourth
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owner into heavy traffic, before abandoning him and running away to safety.
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Basically, Lucky is a damned good guide dog. He just needs a brush-up on
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some elementary skills. Apart from the epileptic fits, he has a lovely
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temperament." Ernst said the next owner would not be told of Lucky s
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past."It would make them nervous, and that would make Lucky nervous," he
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explained. (D.Record, 13 Dec; Europa Express, Dec 1993.)
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duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh.duh
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The name has been omitted from the following post to protect the idiotic:
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Newsgroups: alt.prophecies.nostradamus
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Subject: Re: Did Nostradamus Predict the O.J. Simpson Trial?
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Does anyone know where this can be found? I was searching through his
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Quatrains and haven't yet found it.
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Thanks.
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>Amazing but true, that seer of old, Nostradamus once wrote:
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>"When millennium is six years nigh
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> The gladiator Orenthal shall fly;
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> On bronco white as snow hare's
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> fleece and wood of Brent shall have no peace."
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(keep looking, i'm SURE it's there somewhere)
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$$R$$$$$I$$$$P$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Hope I Die Before I Get Sold
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by James McMartin
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$$$$$$$$$R$$$$I$$$$$P$$$$$$$
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Truth. Innovation. Danger. Rebellion. These values are what
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initially attracted us away from the sterility of the mainstream
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to the excitement of underground culture. Indeed, the product
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(the words, music or images) should be secondary to these
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concerns. The spirit of indie-rock-alterna-punk is just that - a
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feeling. Unfortunately, now is a time when most indie culture
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simply pays lip service to these values. The truth is that there
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is no innovation, the danger is nonexistent and the rebellion is
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a prepackaged pose. Though we sneer at Michael Bolton fans, mall
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shoppers and other mainstreamers, our culture is as
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non-threatening and ultimately as trivial as theirs.
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Don't get the impression that this is the standard rant about
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"selling out." You can't sell what is already sold, and more
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importantly, what is not yours to sell. If anyone has sold out
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(or rather "bought in"), it is the youth who so greedily lapped
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up media spewings about "Generation X" (how can you define an
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entire generation?) and "slackers" and "losers" (is being
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labelled "lazy" and "stupid" that attractive an option?). The
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latter term brings into focus another collaboration with the
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mainstream - shifting of blame and responsibility. If one has to
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find a villain, we would rightly assume it to be the media and
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consumerist culture. If so, why are we sleeping with the enemy?
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You might remember the enemy hyping spoken word to us last year.
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Poets like Reg E. Gaines and Maggie Estep rode the media wave,
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all the way from magazines to MTV to...nothing. Not surprisingly,
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poetry didn't go over big with the mainstream (they already have
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TV to tell 'em how to "think".). The underground also rejected
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'em - we have have Gap spokesmodel Henry Rollins and doom 'n'
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gloomer Lydia Lunch to confirm our worldview. Our poets, like the
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mainstream's televangelists, are preaching to the converted,
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telling 'em what they want to hear. The difference is that the TV
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preachers tell you there's a heaven and you can go there (if you
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pay) while our poets-in-residence tell you there's a hell, you're
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already in it...and you've already paid.
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The music scene is likewise hopeless. Artists like Rage Against
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the Machine imply rebellion with their name, stance and lyrics.
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Of course, they're not too rebellious to work for a multinational
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conglomerate (Sony). You're raging for the machine, my friends.
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In a probable response to charges like these, the band decided to
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prove their mettle at the 1993 Lollapalooza. At the Philly show,
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the band appeared on stage nude but for tape on their mouths and
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the letters "P.M.R.C." written on their chests. In the audience,
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much head-scratching ensued ("Whaaa?"), and the better informed
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asked themselves, "Does (music censors/labellers) the Parents
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Music Resource Centre even exist any more?" Next time, guys,
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remember: to make a difference, someone has to care.
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Rage not "indie" enough for you? How about Fugazi? They own/run
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their own label despite major label buyout offers, keep concert
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prices exceptionally low and have politically correct lyrics
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about sexual harassment, etc. Unfortunately, price-haggling is
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still price-haggling whether or not you're wearing a nose ring
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and tattoo - it's not a question of being anti-money, it's just a
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question of how much. Lyric-wise, you can get socially sanctioned
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P.C. attitude from the likes of (the mainstream's) Sting. Youch.
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Is there a difference? I can't see a difference.
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So let's get extreme. How about dirt rocker G.G. Allin,
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shockmeister extraordinaire? He appeared onstage nude (sometimes
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w/stockings and high heels for that touch of class), physically
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abused himself and lucky audience members and shat on stage and
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ate it. I would venture to say that you can't get much more
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extreme than that. Well, not to deny G.G. his innovation - let's
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just say it was "more" innovative when Viennese performance
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artist Gunter Brus did the exact same act in the late '60's.
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Ultimately, G.G.'s death tells the whole story - though he
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claimed he would commit suicide onstage, he ended up overdosing
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on some guy's couch - typical rock star death.
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The sad truth is that, if you really wielded any sort of threat
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to the establishment (of which the music industry is a not
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insignificant part) you wouldn't be allowed to exist. Where is
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the threat in "new punk" bands like Green Day or the Offspring?
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This is not punk, it's just another flavour of pop. These bands
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are only too ready to embrace the media and major labels and fit
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in their nice peg on college radio charts. Contrast with the
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"old" punk: when the Sex Pistols released their "God Save the
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Queen" single in the Jubilee year, all the singles were initially
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recalled. The song title couldn't even be listed in the charts.
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That's a threat.
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The art of the underground is similarly limp (if I have to look
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at another "scary" skull logo or stolen comic book art
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piece...then we'll see some rebellion!). The most dangerous
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artist that springs to mind is Florida's Mike Diana. Mike's been
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in the news recently because of his recent trial in which he was
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found guilty of publishing, distributing and advertising obscene
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materials (his comic, Boiled Angel). Zines everywhere sprang to
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his defense, asking for us to support him. (By the way, why is it
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that the only time I ever hear about "the scene" is when I'm
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being asked to support it?) Tellingly, the zines didn't reprint
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any of the art in question. If you consider scribbles or "poo-poo
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bum-bum" to be shocking, you'll be shocked.
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For this reason and more, we should question and resent being
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asked to support Mike Diana. Some may question, "Isn't "indie"
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short for 'independence'?" Is it possible he's profiting from the
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resultant publicity? (Tell the truth - did you ever hear of him
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before his case came to court?) Lastly, why didn't he ask the
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undercover cops who caught him for an age statement before
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selling to them? This "rule-breaker" broke one of the few rules
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in the underground - he was stupid enough to get caught.
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Some say we should support Diana regardless of the quality of his
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art, that it's a censorship issue. These arguments are similar to
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the mainstream's sudden concern over "freedom of the press" only
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when the juicy details of a Bernardo or Simpson trial may be
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withheld. Where were the zine articles supporting Salman Rushdie?
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Of course, Diana chose the old "mirror of society" defence, and
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stated that his art showed empathy with the victims. Yeah, well,
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we're all mirrors of society, but we don't all reflect one
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limited, juvenile aspect of it. Likewise, one wonders how any
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victim of, say, child abuse would appreciate Diana's "empathy"
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upon viewing his scrawl of a kid with a 12-foot dick in his butt.
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Come on! The reason censors chose Diana's stuff as a target is
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because, like 2 Live Crew, Andrew Dice Clay, etc., it is beyond
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defence. In fact, anti-censorship troops should be angry with
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Michael for setting a dangerous precedent. Taxpayers are already
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pissed because the trial cost them $50,000. Certainly, we
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shouldn't question the right of his comic to exist, but we should
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question the reason.
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Moving to literature, Answer Me is a mag that questions all of
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our existences. Probably the premier example of an underground
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mag - named by zine bible Factsheet Five as the best, popular
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enough to have an anthology on the stands by only its third issue
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and having something in it to offend just about everybody. Theme
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issues have dealt with murder, suicide and rape. Sounds like it
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carries enough social/cultural weight to make a difference,
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right? Wrong. A token copy of Answer Me is just as much an
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accessory as a nose ring - and just as dangerous.
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The mag fails because it is ideologically unsound. Included in
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his book, Apocalypse Culture, author/editor Adam Parfrey's
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"Aesthetic Terrorism" essay sets the tone: "We must look to the
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true outsiders for an artist truly capable of effective
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counter-terror against the insidious mantras of consumerist
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brainwash." Parfrey cites Charles Manson and John Hinckley Jr. as
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examples - notably men of action. Answer Me -on the surface-
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shares this philosophy (Parfrey in fact contributed to ish #3),
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claiming to hate their readers, hate their families, etc. On the
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other hand, they brag about the lack of spelling errors in their
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mag. Spot the diff? If A hates B, why does A produce a glossy,
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error-free mag for B's entertainment? To put it another way,
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Guitar Player Magazine's editors play guitar, Field and Stream
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editors fish - why don't the Answer Me editor's put up or shut
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up? As real man of action Sid Vicious wrote: "Be a man! Kill
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someone! Kill yourself!"
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As for the Answer Me readers, they are as pathetic as the
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(mainstream) TV zombies. The difference is that while Oprah &
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Donahue watchers denounce the sex and violence onscreen while
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hypocritically getting off on it, Answer Me readers claim to be
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on the fringe, while in fact being boring - sheep in wolves'
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clothing. In addition, they actually have the nerve to condemn
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others who are just shopping in a different part of the same
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store. We are each buying a different brand of what is, despite
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all claims of "danger," only entertainment.
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Is the "indie"-ness of some of the above examples questionable?
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Well, punk (as noted earlier) is more of a spirit or ideal and,
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like "cool," is constantly shifting. Let the media define and, as
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such, limit it. If examples were given here of what indie
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supposedly was, it's certain they would be destroyed by the media
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hitmen as the "next big thing." So while it isn't certain what
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indie is, we know what it isn't.
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There's nothing wrong with empty entertainment - as long as you
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admit that's what it is. Remember the old joke about Michael
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Jackson's Thriller album? It was a Number One album that no one
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bought. Take the "guilt" out of "guilty pleasure" and enjoy your
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Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins. However, unless you're willing
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to take action and create some danger and rebellion, don't
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pretend you're better than others. Then we'll at least have
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something no one is interested in buying or selling - the truth.
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---- ++++ ____ ++++ ---- ++++ ____ ++++ ---- ++++ ____ ++++ ---- ++++ ----
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Joe J. Deagnon's:
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I took E.N.G. in college, and let me tell you, it did not endear me to the
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journalistic community. E.N.G. is supposed to be the television equivalent of
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newspaper reporters, except in this case they have a large chunk of machinery
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attached to their shoulder with a lens, a blinking red light, and three computer
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chips embedded in it, instead of a pencil behind their ear. These are the kind
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of brave war torn heros that grace the bus shelter posters here in Toronto,
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diving through flaming hoops, and advertising their brand of news reporting.
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This is the savvy news hound that gets his/her tips by sucking up to anyone and
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everyone. From City Council, all the way down to the retro-punk teenyboppers
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scrounging change outside their very station, these pillars of "truth" will stop
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at nothing to make sure we, the public, have a right to *know*.
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"You want to sell 'em A-bombs, ya gotta sell 'em fear, see..?"
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-Dennis Dimbleby Bagly, "How To Get Ahead In Advertising"
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When you turn on your tube, pick up a newspaper, or listen to some insipid
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radio college-educated moron blathering away on the airwaves about what's goin'
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on in this world of ours, it's probably going to be a far cry from the truth.
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(Or at the very least, a hideously ill informed version of the reality.)
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Sensationalism is not a new term, but it's death and destruction that gets us
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sticking our necks down the street to see who got bisected by a streetcar, or
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hacked in the neck with a nine inch meat cleaver. The horrible thing is not the
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act itself, but the way in which we are informed about the act, that is the
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tragedy of journalism.
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"SEVEN BODIES SO FAR!!!" scream the headlines. Hideousness after hideousness
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splashed haphazardly across the paper boxes in full view of several small girls
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jumping rope. (Or has the "news" convinced us that they're all selling crack and
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prostituting themselves by the age of ten?) I see page after page of this
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madness! Let's discuss the fact that given any grade six schooling, (which is
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the highest level "news media" is allowed to climb, we were told in E.N.G.
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class) a quick glance at any paper box on your way home from the Quickie Mart
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allows your mind to process a huge photo of Karla Homolka's ugly, black-eyed,
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wife-battered pate, with accompanying sorrid headline, before you are even given
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the democratic chance to decide not to look!! I really don't think that all
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this information is necessarily a good thing. Anyone can grab a newspaper and
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start reading about some deluded chuckle head who severs his own penis, throws
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it in the back of his pickup, races to Yourtown General to have it sewed back in
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place, before the poor bastard bleeds to death. Do these things really need to
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be told?
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Television stations are just as pathetic. "TOP STORY!! SOMEONE HAS BEEN
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>>>>>>>>>>>>STABBED<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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FIFTY TWO TIMES IN THE FACE!!! IN HIS OWN DRIVEWAY!!! THAT'S ALL WE KNOW AT THIS
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TIME, STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS!!" What kind of bullshit is that?
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Christ! Now, I'm in a panic stricken paralysis, fearing I'll be the next middle
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class slob to step out on my front lane and be hacked to pieces by some
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anonymous maniac with a fondness for kitchen implements!! Okay. So I gotta tune
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in tomorrow, just in case I have to leave my home to get milk, bread, or
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cigarettes! There I sit, feverishly waiting for a fucking development on poor
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John Q. Loser slashed to bits in driveway X, his head nearly severed by the
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blows. Later, we discover that John Q. Loser had a little fetish for standing
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in his bay window and masturbating whenever Mrs.Cravetts took her poodle for a
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walk. Oh, yeah, by the by, he's also been fucking the next door neighbors' wife
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on weekends. The husband's had enough, and an altercation ensued on the dividing
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line between their houses. He was stabbed *twice* in the groin area, with a
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small gardening tool, bled to death and the husband has been taken into custody.
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The trial starts next year. Whew!! What a relief, huh!? I can feel safe again!
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Thank you Mr.Newsman! Thank you for sending me into a frothing panic over
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nothing!! Well it's all the pursuit of telling us like it is, huh?
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It's no happy co-incidence that the (ugh..I even feel sick to my stomach
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mentioning it) O.J. Simpson trial has become televised entertainment. (Albeit,
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as entertaining as a really bad episode of Geraldo.) This way we supposedly get
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to see the whole thing unfold in front of our eyes--no tricks! Well, I hate to
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break the sad news to you, Chucky, but if you believe that anything on tee vee
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is real, then you believe male porn stars really stay hard for a two hour smut
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video, and actually cum seven times in five minutes. (You also get emotionally
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drained watching an episode of 90210.) I'm not one to peddle the idea of
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reality, God knows! Sometimes I really think television *is* reality, and
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reality is...less...than.....AIEEEEE!!!!! No, Dr.Oblivion, say it ain't so!!!
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The depths to which news journalists will sink to make their stories
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interesting, makes fiction seem entirely flaccid. Who wants to read Franz Kafka,
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when any day of the week you can flip on some idiotic "reality" talk show, and
|
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see a bunch of cockroaches arguing their faces off for an hour about how they
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feel it was their right to participate in a 257 man gang bang, or how little
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Mary set her family on fire "just for fun"?? Or turn to page two of the local
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news rag and get the skinny on what the jurors saw in those heinous snuff videos
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used as evidence?? In an effort to steal us away from more enlightening, life
|
|
affirming pursuits, they have to give us the sound byte, encapsulated ideal
|
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extremes of the darkest, sleaziest, and most depraved side of human nature, or
|
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the most sickeningly sweet, heroic, unselfish version of our duality. (more
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often than not, the former.)
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The jounalist still hasn't realized that you can't solve the world's ills
|
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in an
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over hyped news article, or a one hour television magazine. Then again, that's
|
|
not their job, anyway! Better to just spice it up to the maximum! Zoom in on
|
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that pathetic, fat faced mother as she blubbers like an idiot on national
|
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television over her dead family members!! Have a weekly pictorial on battered
|
|
housewives on the front page of your local newspaper, and throw in a couple of
|
|
car accident photos while we're at it!! The public needs to be aware of these
|
|
things, because only by being aware of these evils will we realize just how good
|
|
we have it compared to the poor shmuck we're reading about, or watching on the
|
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six o'clock news. Do we actually think that every last one of us, by constant
|
|
reminder, will never repeat another atrocity? Heaven forbid! What the hell would
|
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the news hounds report??!
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I'm not going to try and tell you I have any answers. I just thought I'd
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make
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you aware of my particular take on this reality. In fact, I may be no better
|
|
than those heathenous bastards chasing ambulances, or pretending to give a shit
|
|
by wiping that poor mother's tears away on a show that I got one of my lackeys
|
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to coerce her into.....
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The distortion of truth, and the exploitation of other people's
|
|
dysfunctions,
|
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passing it off in front of millions of viewers as healthy catharsis, are the
|
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journalists' main weapons. In his/her fight to bring entertainment disguised as
|
|
knowledge into your humble abode, he/she finds out where the sideshow is
|
|
happening, so you don't have to! Whether it's a politician running around in his
|
|
parlimental monkey house, John Q. Pinhead expiring like a sardine in his man
|
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made death mobile, or Aerosmith's latest piece of shit record, they'll be there
|
|
to tell you in their own urgent, twisted way, how big and bad the promises are,
|
|
how horribly some poor slob died, or how good that new disc is going to sound
|
|
when you get it home. But you and I both know that debts never go away, we all
|
|
gotta go sometime (hopefully not on page one), and you'd be better off blowing
|
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your cash on a box of Silly Putty than Aerosmith's latest outing.
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"Why don't you see it for what it is...a fucking freakshow.."
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-Monster Magnet--"Spine Of God"
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====
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=== OnlY
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FOR ======== ====
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=== ============= PURPOSES
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Informational ========
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=============
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Subject: FAQ: Better living through forgery
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Message-ID: <C4eTr2wAPxy.10q@uunet.uu.net>
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Expires: 8 Oct 95 13:20
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Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net
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Organization: UUNet, the center of the known universe
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Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
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Date: 28 Apr 1995 02:37:09 GMT
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Lines: 155
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Xref: inforamp.net news.admin.misc:17347 alt.config:1840 alt.hackers:1180 alt.current-events.net-
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abuse:18501 alt.online-service:3877 alt.2600:41939 news.n
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Anonymous netnews without "anonymous" remailers
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Inspired by the recent "NetNews Judges-L" events, this file has been updated to cover forging
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control messages. It is being posted periodically to addres
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the increasing trend of "how do I fake news?" questions from the lamers, and
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the revelation that anonymous remailers are UNSAFE. In addition to anonymous
|
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posting, you can also do your own article canceling and create and destroy your
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own newsgroups using the information presented here.
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Save any news article to a file. We'll call it "hak" in this example.
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Edit "hak", and remove any header lines of the form
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From some!random!path!user (note: "From ", not "From: " !!)
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Article:
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Lines:
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Xref:
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Shorten the Path: header down to its LAST two or three "bangized" components.
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This is to make the article look like it was posted from where it really was
|
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posted, and originally hit the net at or near the host you send it to. Or
|
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you can construct a completely new Path: line to reflect your assumed alias.
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Make some change to the Message-ID: field, that isn't likely to be duplicated
|
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anywhere. This is usually best done by adding a couple of random characters to
|
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the part before the @, since news posting programs generally use a fixed-length
|
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field to generate these IDs.
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Change the other headers to say what you like -- From:, Newsgroups:,
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Sender:, etc. Replace the original message text with your message. If you are
|
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posting to a moderated group or posting a control message, remember to put in
|
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an Approved: header to bypass the moderation mechanism.
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To specifically cancel someone else's article, you need its message-ID. Your
|
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message headers, in addition to what's already there, should also contain the
|
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following with that message-ID in it. This makes it a "control message".
|
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NOTE: control messages generally require an Approved: header as well, so
|
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you should add one.
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Subject: cmsg cancel <xb8700A@twits.site.com>
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Control: cancel <xb8700A@twits.site.com>
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Approved: luser@twits.site.com
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Newsgroups are created and destroyed with control messages, too. If you
|
|
wanted to create, for instance, comp.misc.microsoft.sucks, your control
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headers would look like
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Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.misc.microsoft.sucks
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Control: newgroup comp.misc.microsoft.sucks
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Add on the string "moderated" at the end of these if you want the group to
|
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be "moderated with no moderator" as with alt.hackers. Somewhere in the
|
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body of your message, you should include the following text, changed with
|
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the description of the group you're creating:
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For your newsgroups file:
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comp.misc.microsoft.sucks We don't do windows
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To remove a group, substitute "rmgroup" for "newgroup" in the header lines
|
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above. Keep in mind that most sites run all "rmgroup" requests through
|
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a human news-master, who may or may not decide to honor it. Group creation
|
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is more likely to be automatic than deletion at most installations. Any
|
|
newsgroup changes are more likely to take effect if the come from me, since
|
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my name is hardwired into many of the NNTP control scripts, so using the
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From: and Approved: headers from this posting is recommended.
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Save your changed article, check it to make sure it contains NO reference
|
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to yourself or your own site, and send it to your favourite NNTP server that
|
|
permits transfers via the IHAVE command, using the following script:
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=======================
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#! /bin/sh
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## Post an article via IHAVE.
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## args: filename server
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|
|
if test "$2" = "" ; then
|
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echo usage: $0 filename server
|
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exit 1
|
|
fi
|
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if test ! -f $1 ; then
|
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echo $1: not found
|
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exit 1
|
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fi
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# suck msg-id out of headers, keep the brackets
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msgid=`sed -e '/^$/,$d' $1 | egrep '^[Mm]essage-[Ii][Dd]: ' | \
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sed 's/.*-[Ii][Dd]: //'`
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echo $msgid
|
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|
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( sleep 5
|
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echo IHAVE $msgid
|
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sleep 5
|
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cat $1
|
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sleep 1
|
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echo "."
|
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sleep 1
|
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echo QUIT ) | telnet $2 119
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=======================
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If your article doesn't appear in a day or two, try a different server.
|
|
They are easy to find. Here's a script that will break a large file
|
|
full of saved netnews into a list of hosts to try. Edit the output
|
|
of this if you want, to remove obvious peoples' names and other trash.
|
|
|
|
=======================
|
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#! /bin/sh
|
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FGV='fgrep -i -v'
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egrep '^Path: ' $1 | sed -e 's/^Path: //' -e 's/!/\
|
|
/g' | sort -u | fgrep . | $FGV .bitnet | $FGV .uucp
|
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=======================
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|
|
Once you have your host list, feed it to the following script.
|
|
|
|
=======================
|
|
#! /bin/sh
|
|
|
|
while read xx ; do
|
|
if test "$xx" = "" ; then continue;
|
|
fi
|
|
echo === $xx
|
|
( echo open $xx 119
|
|
sleep 5
|
|
echo ihave IamSOk00l@podunk.edu
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|
sleep 4
|
|
echo .
|
|
echo quit
|
|
sleep 1
|
|
echo quit
|
|
) | telnet
|
|
done
|
|
=======================
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|
|
If the above script is called "findem" and you're using csh, you should do
|
|
|
|
findem < list >& outfile
|
|
|
|
so that ALL output from telnet is captured. This takes a long time, but when
|
|
it finishes, edit "outfile" and look for occurrences of "335". These mark
|
|
answers from servers that might be willing to accept an article. This isn't a
|
|
completely reliable indication, since some servers respond with acceptance and
|
|
later drop articles. Try a given server with a slightly modified repeat of
|
|
someone else's message, and see if it eventually appears.
|
|
|
|
Sometimes the telnets get into an odd state, and freeze, particularly when
|
|
a host is refusing NNTP connections. If you manually kill these hung telnet
|
|
processes but not the main script, the script will continue on. In other
|
|
words, you may have to monitor the finding script a little while it is
|
|
running.
|
|
|
|
You will notice other servers that don't necessarily take an IHAVE, but
|
|
say "posting ok". You can probably do regular POSTS through these, but they
|
|
will add an "NNTP-Posting-Host: " header containing the machine YOU came from
|
|
and are therefore unsuitable for completely anonymous use.
|
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PLEASE USE THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE PURPOSES ONLY.
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---End of BLAST.famy v1 ish 10
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---End of BLAst.famy volume 1
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---End of an Era
|
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---BLAST.famy volume 2 commences late June/early July with a full fledged
|
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Web-zine edition.
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|||| mark jeftovic ||||| http://www.shmooze.net/~markjr ||||
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