HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: hrnagh
From: bailey_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 4 Oct 1992 20:40:29 GMT
Reply-To: bailey_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> Arrogance in the
> name of humility.  Intolerance in the name of love.  This is
> salvation.  This is grace.

I hate bible bashers, and I have two things to say. One is: you have
your own forum for your own special brand of rubbish, so keep it there;
the other is: fuck off !
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992 13:29:05 CDT
From: <U30644@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.evil,
Subject:    DAVID S. AUER

Judging from the stuff this dork has posted, he should realize:

1.  He is a long-winded pseudo-intellectual with bible-thumping
tendencies,

2.  Although racism IS EVIL, his post about his "nigger" friend is
pretty unoriginal.  Did he mean this to be his "contribution" to AE?
Pretty pathetic.  Even Richard Rauser was more original.

Do us a favor jagoff, stay off alt.evil.  Go to
alt.long.winded.morons.from.swarthmore.who.give.their.school.a.bad.name.

Joel
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Evil
From: (Becky .)
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:43:26 -0600
Followup-To: alt.evil
Distribution: world

This is Evil
I am sending an Evil message because Becky told me to, she has me tied up
here and is making me type with a stick taped to my nose, I can barely
reach the keyboard stop that stop that put down the squid.......
From: scheider@Oswego.EDU (Linda Scheiderich)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: you people are sad!
Date: 4 Oct 92 18:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: scheider@oswego.Oswego.EDU (cat)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <92277.213159SXM126@psuvm.psu.edu> SXM126@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>You people make me concerned about about your afterlife
>
>Just spread love, and let god do the rest..
>
>I love you all..
>
>I love you, and PSUVM is the greatest node ever..
>

Hmmm.  Looks like someone found out an acquaitence's password.  Sad.

>
>   Steve Mandel
>                SXM126@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
>  " You can produce the sound of the two hands clapping. Now, how does
>                  one hand sound?"

           Cat, the Mystical Divinity of Unashamed Felinity
Oh if people only knew how DULL it was to live in sin!...
From: cygnus@wpi.WPI.EDU (Marshall Robin)
Newsgroups: alt.evil,wpi.students.voxhumana
Subject: Re: just a thought
Date: 26 Sep 92 16:21:40 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <19vjl3INN9u@bigboote.WPI.EDU> satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer) writes:
>
>
>if you could effectivley stop/filter out the screaming, yet maintain the
>adrenalin induced excitement, horror, and blood flow... what kind of sound
>do you think you could make by dragging someones face across a cement sidewalk
>for 3 1/2 miles
>
>thus slowly peeling of the layers of skin and muscle tissue and eventually 
>grating the cheek bones against the ground....
>

well, whatever it is, it would certainly pale compared to the horror
and agony potential induced by the sound of hundreds of sorority women singing
outside my dorm window every friday night.....agggggggh!

-marsh
From: s9877751@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (s9877751)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: you people are sad!
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:56:00 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct6.034005.2578@news.Hawaii.Edu>, rigler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (80 Hours) writes...
>In article <92277.213159SXM126@psuvm.psu.edu> <SXM126@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>You people make me concerned about about your afterlife
> 
>You make us concerned about your being alive.
> 
>>Just spread love, and let god do the rest..
> 
>Just cut your throat, and let the rats do the rest..

(**couldn't have said it better myself**)


>>I love you all..
>>I love you, and PSUVM is the greatest node ever..
> 
>Why thank you, and I agree.  SPAM is the greatest lunchmeat ever.. 

well, maybe so, but penut butter captain crunch is the greatest cereal of all
time.

> 
>Mike
From: aa782@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Emilie Unkrich)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: Good stories
Date: 1 Oct 1992 13:28:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa782@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Emilie Unkrich)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu () says:

>In article <1aa9smINN83h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa782@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Emilie Unkrich) writes:
>>
>>
>>ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS
>>
>>
>>Did this not used to be a place where a person could get to read a good,
>>grusome story?
>>
>>Anyone have anything good to post for us to read.?
>>-- 
>
>Anyone have any H.P. Lovecraft books on BBS?
>
>yrs under the elder sign
>-Scott
>(fun guy from yuggoth)
>
>
>
SAY BRO--WHAT?
-- 
Emilie Amanda Unkrich - Cleveland FreeNet :->  The human body can never be 
Culinary Arts SIG Cosysop (aa782)         :->  better than the food that it  
>INTERNET:aa782@cleveland.Freenet.Edu     :->  takes in daily to strengthen,
                                          :->  revitalize, and rebuild it.
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: tarrall@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Pavaroti the Clown)
Subject: Re: Looking for evil music
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:38:34 GMT

death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes:


>How about Slayer as evil music?

>Kill the preachers only son
>Death upon you now
>Pldged to die

>etc etc


Not really.

You want evil?  Try Christain Death ...

Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu ()
Subject: Re: Good stories
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:43:12 GMT
X-Posted-From: titan.ucc.umass.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1aa9smINN83h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa782@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Emilie Unkrich) writes:
>
>
>ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS
>
>
>Did this not used to be a place where a person could get to read a good,
>grusome story?
>
>Anyone have anything good to post for us to read.?
>-- 

Anyone have any H.P. Lovecraft books on BBS?

yrs under the elder sign
-Scott
(fun guy from yuggoth)


Newsgroups: alt.co-ops
From: engp2042@nusunix1.nus.sg (LIM SWEE HONG)
Subject: Test
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:57:23 GMT

this is a test.
Newsgroups: alt.co-ops
From: Fred Tayback <tbk@halcyon.com>
Subject: Co-ops in southern California
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Keywords: California, co-ops
Reply-To: tbk.@halcyon.com
Organization: none
Distribution: everywhere
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:39:11 GMT
Comments: Any co-ops in southern cal around the LA area?  I am really intere

I need addresses or phone numbers for coops in the LA area.
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
Subject: net.views -- computer crime
Organization: Open Systems Today
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 21:20:17 GMT



                 Do you consider computer crime to be 
                 a threat to your system?


     This question is being posted to gather responses for a regular
 opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views."

     By posting a response to this topic, you are granting
 permission for OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY to publish your response. A
 compilation of the responses to this post will be posted here about
 two weeks from today.

     Please include in your response your name, your employer, your job
 title, and location. Or, if you identify yourself as a student, please
 give your class standing (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, grad),
 the school and its location. Please also provide a telephone number 
 where you can be reached during the daytime (overseas readers note:
 that's daytime in North America).

     Please be brief; try to limit your responses to two screens
 (24x80) of text, not including headers and other administrivia.

     Thanks!

                         -- mitch w.
--
Mitch Wagner, senior editor, Open Systems Today
2353 Massachusetts Ave. Suite 47, Cambridge, MA 02140
wagner@utoday.com  (617)547-8485  CIS:70212,51  GEnie:MITCH.WAGNER  
For subscription information, please call 516/562-5882
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: You are in a maze of twisty little passages ...
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 26 Sep 92 02:45:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
> An a-mazing thing happened. I got a tour of the new High Explosives
> Applications Facility (HEAF) at LLNL (merely a moderately hazardous area)
> and they had to explain that their Labs can't have doors since they
> impeed escape in an emergency, so they use mazes to dissapate blast effect.
> Wow, a place for the "Don't Try this at Home" session.  Adventure in
> carnate!  And what's more is that I remembered bearings on the way thru
> the thing.

(Getting a _little_ off the topic of the newsgroup, but what the hey!)

There's a place on Waiheke Island (a largeish island that makes up part
of Waitemata Harbour around Auckland, NZ) called Stony Batter.  This is a
World War II military camp and gun emplacement, built entirely underground.

There too, they built mazes to prevent blasts from causing damage inside 
the complex -- each entrance tunnel is shaped somethng like:

	                             +---+
	                             |   |
	        +--------------------+   |
	        |                        |
	        +---+   +------------+   |
	            |   |            |   |
	            |   |            |   |
	            |   |            |   |
	            |   |            |   |             /
	------------+   |        +---+   +------------/
	<- to complex   |        |           to world ->
	------------+   |        +--------------------\
	            |   |                              \
	            +---+

The place is well preserved, being relatively difficult to get to -- it's a
boat ride to the island for starters, and then is some ten miles from the
settlements there.  (I went out with the morning mail run and walked back.)

You need a good torch.  The battery was flat in mine when I went in (entering
through one of the now empty gun emplacements rather than the "mazes"), and
it was very bright outside.  I stopped just at the point where natural light 
ran out, and waited for my eyes (and photochromic glasses) to adjust.  After
a couple of minutes, I thought "what the heck" and took one step in.

My foot met nothing but space.  I spun on the spot and (barely) regained my
balance.  I'd been standing right on the top of a stairway leading into the
bowels of the earth!  At about that point I decided to replace the battery...


ObHack: Rescuing a production VMS V4.7 system after a certain individual
deleted the dumpfile some time before _without_ rebooting first.  (VMS people
who have been around that long will understand....)

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: fun with file systems
Date: 28 Sep 1992 06:17:26 GMT
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: itch.tc.cornell.edu


I don't know if this is about a hack.  Maybe it's just about sisu (ask
a Finn, if you don't know).  It is a test post, of sorts; this is
coming from my home system, via PPP.  But I know it's going to work,
so it isn't really a test.  :-)

One morning, after a late night hardware rearrangement, somehow I
managed to lose the disk label on one of my Eagles.  It might have
been bad cabling; it might have been the phase of the moon.  The one
file system on that disk never gets backed up, since everything on it
comes from anonymous ftp, and if I ever lose that disk I'll just build
newer versions of everything anyway, but I really wasn't in the mood
to give up on the file system that day, not without a struggle.

The first thing I wondered when I saw that the kernel wasn't finding a
disk label at boot time, on that one Eagle, was whether it was
possible to reformat the disk; that, after all, puts a label onto a
working disk.

That led to the next question, whether I really had to format the
entire disk.  The format program couldn't just relabel the disk,
because that caused an I/O error.  Sure enough, the manual said I
could format any number of sectors.  Fine, I said; format just the
very first one.

So that didn't take long, and suddenly I was able to label the disk.
The partition table didn't much matter because I only wanted the c
partition.  fsck, as expected, didn't like the super block much; that
too was in the first sector.

Well, sez I, there's always a backup super block at 32, right?  Gee,
that one must have been on the first sector too.  Oh, well ... time to
take a wild guess at one of the numbers in that long list from newfs
output, the one nobody ever writes down.

But wait, isn't that what -N is for?  Let's see, what inode density
did I use, anyway?  Two runs of "newfs -N" suggested the backup
superblock locations are independent of inode density; I guess it
makes sense to base those only on geometry, but it never hurts to
check such things.

Feeding the last number in the list given by "newfs -N" to "fsck -b"
made the Eagle look a whole lot like a disk; the only question fsck
asked was whether I wanted to fix the superblock.  Sure, do it.


OK, so that wasn't a hack.  It was just patience, persistence, and the
occasional good idea.  How about this?


if (0) then
: ; fi 2>&- ; endif () { : ; } ;
setenv () { eval "$1='$2' export $1" ; }
endif
From: joslin_paul@ae.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: BIFF sighting
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:59:42 GMT
Reply-To: joslin_paul@ae.ge.com
Distribution: na
Organization: GE Aircraft Engines
Originator: news@c0228.ae.ge.com


djd@csg.cs.reading.ac.uk (David J Dawkins) writes about Jimbo@*.il:

>   NYAAAA!! It's a BIFF derivative (descendant?)
>   Maybe less of the falling-down juice before posting :-)

Let's kill him now.


ObHack:  Taking apart my HP disk drive with a key chain because the
morons who installed my DAT tape used the same SCSI address as my floppy
disk, and left before testing it.
-- 
-- 
     Paul R. Joslin     |
joslin@c0223.ae.ge.com  |     "It is never too late to have a happy
   +1 513 583 3537      |		  childhood."
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: rens@lorax.shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Subject: Re: (none)
Reply-To: rens@shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:59:11 GMT


In article <9210011823.AA16180@rutgers.edu> news@INDIANA.EDU (USENET News System) writes:

   Now, for those of you familiar with GNU's crypt(), would using that crypt()
   instead of Crack's fcrypt() improve speed, or is it the dictionary rules and
   expceptions that are slowing it down?  Keep in mind that GNU's crypt() is 400x

man 1 gprof.

--
  __   ___  ,    __  
 /__) /__  /| / (    |  J. Laurens Troost    Lehman Brothers Technical Services
/  \ (___ / |/ __)   |  *Opinions expressed herein are mine. Mine, I tell you!*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INET: rens@shearson.com        VOICE: (212) 464-3705        FAX: (212) 464-2040
From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: net.views -- computer crime
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:06:42 GMT
	<ZOWIE.92Oct3221028@daedalus.stanford.edu>
Organization: One of these days for sure
X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992

In <ZOWIE.92Oct3221028@daedalus.stanford.edu> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:

>In article <1992Oct02.212017.12779@utoday.com> wagner@utoday.com writes:
>		    Do you consider computer crime to be 
>		    a threat to your system?

>Hey, Mitch --

>	This is *alt.hackers*, not *alt.crackers*.  Maybe you should post
>to comp.risks, or comp.security.announce, or news.announce.newusers, or
>something...

    He knew that, it was really just a clever way to disquise his first test 
posting. Now about that bridge...


Obhack. 
   When I first got my Atari St, there was a fast PD hard drive
backup program which used a ramdisk that looked like a floppy to take
advantage of the fact that the ST's disk write routines were way faster
than the floppy file writes. Unfortuanately, no restore program was 
included. As I was just learning to program, I decided this would be a 
great project. On reading that the track reading routine needed a buffer,
and because I was concerned about space as the ramdisk for an 800k floppy 
didn't leave a lot of room for code in a one meg machine, I decided the 
ramdisk would make a perfect track buffer, plus it would save writing
the track to the ram disk after reading iot into memory. A little work
with a disassembler and I figured out the offset to where the first track 
started in the ramdisk.
   Not the most brilliant hxack, but I was sure proud of it at the time. 

-- 
       John Henders      jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
    I think your "evolutionary scale" needs an adjustment.  Either 
      that, or you've got your thumb on it. -> (lefty@apple.com)
From: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu (Brad,4480-A Chemistry Annex,2149,7540674,Levitt)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Finally a use for yes
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:21:19 GMT
Reply-To: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu
Organization: Computer Science, University of California at Davis.

In article rn@lynx.unm.edu, schaker@carina.unm.edu (The Big Bwana) writes:
>Many times I help people do stuff at the computer pods here, and
>many of them have rm aliased to rm -i.  If I want to remove *.ps
>in their directories, I could use \rm or /bin/rm but that's no fun.
>I use:
>    % yes | rm *.ps

You might also try unlink instead, it does no checking whatsoever on
a Sun.

Brad

---
   /
O /                         Steal here.
 X ----------------------------------------------------------------
O \     Brad Wetmore:                 wetmore@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu
   \    Help!!!  I've been robbed.  Someone stole my .sig, and sold 
	it back at the UCD used .sigstore.
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
Subject: "mode reader"
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:23:20 GMT


INN partitions the NNTP command set into two classes, one for news
feeds (innd) and one for news reader clients (nnrpd).  In the INN
model of the world, the permissions for these classes aren't supposed
to intersect.  In situations that fit that model, the partitioning
works well; innd invokes nnrpd for connections from hosts that aren't
authorized for feeds.  Clients which connect that way, with suitable
permissions, see a useful subset of the NNTP protocol, lacking only
commands which are needed only by news feeds.

There is also a provision for situations that don't fit the model.  A
client on a host with both kinds of permissions can issue the command
"mode reader", which manually accomplishes what is otherwise automatic
for hosts that aren't authorized for feeds.

The problem, of course, is that clients which predate INN are ignorant
of the "mode reader" command.  What this means is that setting up a
host for both kinds of permissions requires either modernization of
every NNTP client in sight, or one of any number of hacks of varying
degrees of grossness.

One example of a situation that requires both kinds of permissions is
a news server whose UUCP news feeds come through a different host.
The rnews that comes with INN needs xfer permissions if the news
server is elsewhere.  If anyone on the UUCP server wants to read news
from the news server, this means both kinds of permissions are
necessary.  As it happens, this is a fair description of our
situation, for large values of "anyone".

Of the various hacks, I chose the one that does automatic mode
selection.  This implements a variation of the "mode reader" command,
in which an NNTP command not implemented by innd causes it to invoke
nnrpd.  The NNTP command is passed to nnrpd on its command line.
Among other things, nnrpd has to suppress its greeting in the presence
of such command line arguments.

One other hack I've also considered is to modify rnews to fall back to
the NNTP post command if it lacks xfer permissions.  Unlike the other
hack I described, I haven't done this one.
Xref: sparky alt.hackers:1513 alt.security:4527 comp.security.misc:1350
From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers,alt.security,comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: net.views -- computer crime
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:56:30 GMT
Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru

In article <1992Oct02.212017.12779@utoday.com>,
 wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) doodled:

>                 Do you consider computer crime to be 
>                 a threat to your system?


# Tell me grasshopper, what do you see notice about this posting ?

$ Master, on my travels with you around the great filesystems of the world
$ I have seen many such messages, all alike. He has obviously not yet
$ mastered the art of cross-posting, which is like origami, only different,
$ and has managed to waste much diskspace.

# Ahh, but do you notice anything deeper ?

$ Yes master, he has also managed to make his message quite ambiguous
$ by not specifying what type of Computer Crime he wants to hear about.
$ For if he were to mention that he was interested in financial frauds
$ which used computers I would be able to tell him that I did not believe
$ that my system was at threat, as it is only a humble academic system
$ not possessed of the need to imitate an IBM PC and run endless fiscal
$ simulations. However, if he were to say that he was interested in
$ cracking, then I would respond, saying that our planned connection
$ to JIPS (and hence the Internet) scares the willies out of me, even
$ though we have been at one with CERT, taken of the tcp_wrapper,
$ communed with the RFC931 daemon and passed through the test of Crack,
$ I still am aware of my own ignorance of computer security.

# Well answered my son, but I see that you were to continue..

$ I was indeed master.
$ I have also noticed his worst blunder, and one that I can only just
$ bring myself to forgive, although my karma is piled higher than a
$ European grain mountain.

# Enlighten me about this grave error that you speak off.

$ Master, I see that you feign ignorance only to teach, and hence I answer..
$ He has mistaken the sacred gathering of the non-conformist computer
$ people, known to the masses as alt.hackers, as a forum for that
$ most serious of electronic sins, cracking. He hath strayed from the
$ path to enlightenment, when to grok is everything, by the media, who
$ seem incapable of distinguishing between us.

# Grashopper, you have been many years in the training, and I grow old,
# expecting the day when I receive the SIGXCPU, and _exit this world.
# I see that you are ready.

The air resounds to the hollow tones of a great voice, orating thus:

SU my son..

# Master, I am enlightened !

# Now we must teach the people the difference between a hacker and
# a cracker.

Chris

-- 
 Christopher Samuel, c/o Computer Unit, UCW Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, WALES
  RFC: ccs@aber.ac.uk   UUCP: *!mcsun!uknet!aber!ccs   JNT: ccs@uk.ac.aber
          Deddf Iaith Newydd i Gymru | New Language Act for Wales