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)ASCII by Bone(
Newsletter 3
****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE****
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I. Introduction
II. A Matter of Fairness
Why software copy protection is unfair
to individuals with disabilities
III. E-Mail Addresses for Sale
IV. Jesus Takes Over the Internet
V. 5 Reasons Why Online Services Are Dying
VI. AOL4FREE - Can I get Caught?
VII. AOL and USENET Abuse
VIII. Little Thing on Technology
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INTRODUCTION
by Bone
Looking at the articles in this Issue I'd say CRN! is actually looking
a bit on the classy side. We have some really good articles for you this time.
I actually only wrote one article this time. The rest were submitted by
CRN! members. Some of whom have some serious talent.
CRN! now has over 225 registered users and keeps growing daily!
Our distribution also seems to be growing.
Hopefully CRN! will continue to grow to a real force in the computer
world. I have no intention of becoming like C|Net or anything like that. I
don't want to be a pansy to the corporate world (even though I work in it :( ).
I just want CRN! to be recognized as a voice in the computer world.
I'm actually out of words. On with the articles.
* >Message-ID:
> >Path: nntp4.mindspring.com!matlock.mindspring.com!
> >news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!news..eunet..fi!anon..penet..fi
> >Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
> >From: an388076@anon.penet.fi (DiannaLeach)
> >X-Anonymously-To: alt.aol-sucks
> >Organization: Anonymous forwarding service
> >Reply-To: an388076@anon.penet.fi
> >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 03:01:05 UTC
> >Subject: My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, the almighty
> >father
> >Lines: 102
> >
> >
> >Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
> >
> >Hello all, this is once again Mrs. Dianna Leech writing to you
> >from my secure account within the Internet at America OnLine.
> >Over the last several weeks I have been only to post messages
> >to this message board on a sporadic basis. You see, I have been
> >out fighting in Washington D.C., for Christian values for one and
> >all. I hope to be able to write more within the next couple of days
> >and weeks and months to come.
> >
> >I see that there has been some debate as to whether or not I am Dawn
> >or whether I am Mimi. Why can't you people just accept the fact, that
> >I am who I am and that is Mrs. Dianna Leach. For those of you not
> >familiar with me, I am here to bring TOS to all the world. I will
> >bring AOL's TOS to every corner of the earth that has an Internet
> >connection -- it must be done in Jesus name.
*** What is your quest?
*** I seek the Holy Grail!
*** What is your favorite color....
> >
> >After reading several hundred back messages in this group, I am
> >concerned about the direction it is taking -- but I also see some
> >progress. I see many more Christian women and men speaking up in
> >this discussion group who come from AOL. They are coming to defend
> >their morals and beliefs that the Internet is a vile disgusting place for
> >the worlds children to have to visit.
*** You don't like it??? Don't use it! You don't eat a food you don't like.
> > They understand that AOL is a
> >Christian community where we love one another and we can learn and
> >grow in this love. They understand that TOS is a well written
> >document that protects and defends Christian morals and values.
*** Since when? I don't think it was Christian specific.
> >AMEN.
> > This must and will continue. I'm happy to see more and more AOLers
> >and GNNers going out to all the Internet to spread the good news of
> >TOS and Jesus Christ. Mr. Jordan, don't give up the fight for what
> >you believe in.. God will send you a little miracle to let you know
> >that he is working on the big ones -- like converting all of the
> >Internet to AOL and TOS.
*** God help us all :)
> >
> >One thing that is particularly troubling to me is that I have been
> >seeing an ever increasing amount of obscene language and four letter
> >words used in the messages in this message base. Dear friends, be
> >warned that this type of behavior must not be continued any further.
*** Shiver in fear!
> >I am announcing my new policy of ZERO tolerance for those who use
> >curse and blasphemy words. We must realize, that this mess age
> >base is open to many children who may read these vulgar words.
> >If you use them, I will take several steps. For one, I will send the letter
> >to your sys admin with a copy of AOL's TOS to show them how you
> >violated common decency standards.
*** Since when did AOL set the rules? Ever hear of the Internet Society?
*** Or even better, the CONSTITUTION???? Guess not...
> > Next, I will forward to letter to
> >AOL's TOS for future reference so that accounts may be terminated
> >when AOL acquires all of the Internet.
*** That will NEVER happen. If it does I'm going back to my hacking
*** ways. BIGTIME.
> > I'm sorry I have to resort to these
> >tactics, but if you people can not abide by the voluntary rules that
> >AOL and Jesus Christ have set up for the Internet in its TOS document,
*** I checked the Internet Societies member list. Jesus didn't make the cut
*** this year.
> >then you will have to suffer the consequences. Note though, that you
> >will also suffer the consequences at the right hand of Jesus Christ on
*** Isn't he a lefty? Or shouldn't he be ambidextrous so he isn't biased.
> >judgment day as well. There is your warning -- please don't make me
> >resort to this. Also, this includes *EVERYONE* who is a participant
> >in this discussion group -- no one will be excluded (not even the all
> >powerful CABAL members).
> >
> >Secondly, I think that we should eradicate all known homosexuals
> >from participating in this discussion group.
*** Can you say Bigot? Homosexuals (non flaming) are just regular
*** people with different sexual preferences. Nothing else.
> > Lets make this a place
> >where we know our children will not be harmed. So, sorry Mr. Finley,
> >you'll have to go, and you better take Mr. McCracken (ASCII Rider)
> >with you, since we all really know that his sexual orientation leans
> >toward homosexuality - despite his attempts to hit on me.
*** To quote a little known document "All men are created equal".
> >
> >Third on my agenda, is to change the name of this group. The current
> >one is inappropriate at best. S*cks is not appropriate language for
*** SUCKS is a bad word??? Bart Simpsons says bitch on TV and
*** SUCKS is a bad word???? That sucks.
> >our christian children to be hearing. I'm open to suggestions on
> >this one. My real hope would be to just kill this group and take our
> >discussion over to alt.online-service.aol or something like that
> >lets wait though and see what suggestions we get for new names for
> >this group. OK?
> >
> >And finally, during this week that Jews celebrate their special
> >holidays, lets all say a special prayer for them that they will
> >someday know that their creator is Jesus Christ and they will join
> >with us in celebrating the body of our Lord and savior, Jesus
> >Christ, the most holy one.
*** My god woman, your a Christian Nazi!
> >
> >Well, there you have it people, three new agenda items -- short
> >term goals for this newsgroup. The Christian Women's League
> >long term goal of converting all of the Internet to AOL/TOS/Jesus
> >has not and will not change until complete conversion is at hand.
*** You're going to be waiting a LONG time.
> >
> >Now, let us reflect on what Jesus has given us and thank him for
> >that:
> >
> >Dear sweet Jesus, thank you again for providing the on-line community
> >with AOL.
*** If Jesus invented AOL I think he did a better job with the Chia Pet.
> > We thank you for the Christian Fellowship that we all
> >have come to enjoy on your network of choice. Thank you dear father
> >for writing TOS for us as a guideline on how you want us to act in
> >this day of global communications.
*** Jesus is a technical writer for AOL? Must be working with Elvis.
> > Dear Jesus, give us the strength to
> >always do your will, and we know your will is to free the net of
> >porn, homosexuality, and Christ haters. We know that only a powerful
> >document and Christian AOL GUIDES can accomplish this feat, but we
> >will do it in your name Jesus, forever and ever. AMEN. ALLELUIA!
*** I keep getting flashes of Bill the Cat as Fundamental Bill and his
*** quest against penguin lust (remember that one?).
> >
> >Sincerely and on behalf of HIS sorrowful passion,
> >Mrs. Dianna Leach
> >Christian Women's League
> >
*** I'm conducting a playful little survey.
*** E-mail your answer to seaman@phobos.lib.iup.edu
*** - - - - - - - - - -cut here- - - - - - - - - -
*** This woman needs to:
***
*** A) get laid
*** B) get the stick out of her ___________ (you fill it in)
*** C) Realize all people(PC) are created equal.
*** D) Realize that America was founded by people looking
*** for religious freedom
*** E) Go back to England during the middle ages when
*** the churches ran everything
*** F) Realize that if God really cared famine, war, and
*** plagues would not be happening.
*** G) (you fill in)
***
*** Choose one and send it to Bone. Results will be in
*** the next newsletter!
***
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5 REASONS WHY ONLINE SERVICES ARE DYING
by Marty Robinson
There was a very interesting article in the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution today. It's a reprint from the Orange County Register and
was written by Stephen Lynch.
This isn't the whole article, just the top 5 reasons online
services are on the way out.
"1- They can't keep up with growth. AOL Spokeswoman Pam McGraw says the
service receives more than 4 million e-mail messages a day from outside
providers - but that volume forces delivery delays of about two hours.
Unlike the Web, which is scattered across a worldwide computer network,
commercial services route all their subscribers through the same
bottleneck and the users are charged for the delays.
2- Too many graphics. Even on a high-speed modem, one page on (the online
services) can take forever to load. MSN spokesman Bill Miller says that
his service has been criticized by some users for it's abundant photos -
"from the result of us pushing the envelope." Make that "the result of
trying to make more money." On the Web, if something is taking too long to
load, you hit "Stop" and go elsewhere. Commercial services, in an effort
to run up your bill, make you load and load and load.
3- They are losing their content providers. Almost everything you can find
on a commercial service can be found on the Web. And more content
providers are leaving the companies in favor of a broader audience.
4- They've become blockades, not gateways. Commercial services have
realized the Web is the way to go, and the Big Four all feature browsers
to surf the general Internet. But to access the Web through AOL is to go
to New York by the way of Alaska.
5- They know they are dying. AOL is starting a direct Internet service. So
is CompuServe. Microsoft tried to by 20 percent of Netscape. Apple
Computer is transforming the World into a direct Internet service."
Mr. Lynch goes on to give one reason why online services are still not extinct:
"One reason why commercial providers aren't dying: No one has invested in
a national service that you can load on your computer, double-click and
boom, Web access. Until that happens, easy-to-use commercial services may
still cling to Internet newbies, who are good for at least six months
before they realize they are being suckered."
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AOL4FREE - CAN I GET CAUGHT?
by ANONYMOUS
A better question would be 'would they want to prosecute me if I'm
caught?' The answer depends on how easy it is to catch and trace you. A
little more than a week ago, certain persons in the underground community
found a security hole which allowed them to sign on any AOL account
without needing a password. While browsing around some TOS accounts, they
found EMAIL concerning AOL4Free. The letter you've all been massmailed in
the hack rooms explains how AOL can detect usage of AOL4Free. However, I
have managed to get my hands on a fuller version of the letter within
which AOL Staff admits plans to take legal action against AOL4Free
users.
Check it out:
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Date: Mon, Sep 4, 1995 1:52 PM EDT
From: Appelman
Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
To: lippke@aol.net
Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
Please supply her with the list of screen names. This will get
interesting.
Barry
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Forwarded Message:
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 4:32 PM EDT
From: MayLiang
Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
To: Appelman
cc: Dphillips, JMCHURCH
Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
Barry--
This is great! I talked to Jane and what we need is a list of screen
names only (no member names or addresses--those need to be subpoenaed)of
the aol4free people. We then should get verification from TOS and then
hand them over to the Secret Service, but those are things you don't
have to worry about. So you may start whenever you're ready!
May
P.S. How's the patent application looking? :)
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Forwarded Message:
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 12:26 PM EDT
From: Appelman
Subj: Fwd: AOL4FREE detector
To: MayLiang
Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
These people are idable as stealing time. I think we have enough? to go
forward with legal action. We are ready whenever you are.
Barry
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Forwarded Message:
Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 10:11 AM EDT
From: Lippke
Subj: AOL4FREE detector
To: KHuntsman, Steiny, JHunter
cc: Appelman, X066TR
Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
Heh heh heh .. looks like we've got a reliable AOL4FREE detector. If
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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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.
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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.
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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:
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.)
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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
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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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