Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Jon Pugh and Lance Nakata) (08/21/88)
INFO-MAC Digest Sunday, 21 Aug 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 78
Today's Topics:
PC Info Exchange
Delphi Mac Digest V4 #13
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #97
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #98
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #99
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #100
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #104
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #105
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #106
Usenet Mac Digest V4 #107
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 12:27 CST
From: <SPCLAR%MACALSTR.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: PC Info Exchange
This was posted on the SmorgasBoard BBS sytem in Minneapolis, Mn. I felt it
pertinent to the dealings on this digest, and that hopefully posting it here
would do some good.
Pete Clark
SPCLAR@MACALSTR.BITNET
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4/4: CityWide Echo
Name: CityWide Echo
Date: 4:45 am Wed Aug 17, 1988
From : Steve Sherwick
: Network Coordinator, Twin Cities Metronet
: 1:282/0
TO : All Concerned SysOps and BBS Users
Sub. : 1:282/1
: AKA P.C. Info Exchange
: AKA Midwest Echo Star
And : John Richard
: AKA John Aleshe
: AKA John Richards
: AKA John Paul Aleshe
As Network Coordinator for the International FIDONET in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul area (The Twin Cities Metronet) it falls to
me to disclose the direct information concerning the John
Aleshe/Richard affair as it relates to the FIDONET and the BBS
community.
I first made acquaintance with John under the name of John
Richard in the fall of 1987, he had moved into the area and set
up a BBS system called P.C. Info Exchange as a node in Region 14.
At that time the Twin Cities was not a net but was preparing to
create one.
John entered the area claiming he had moved in from the
Portland area. He stated he was a officer in the U.S. Air Force
and was assigned to Honeywell (A large defense contractor in this
area) as an inspector in the avionics division. He had said that
his assignment was for at least three years and that he was
pretty well here for good.
John apparently had good contacts in the Portland area in
the FIDO community as within two weeks he was importing more
echomail for his system than all T.C. Metronet systems combined.
John then basically made a broad offer to us here, that as
long as he was importing echomail he'd be happy to scan any mail
he was importing for anyone in the net. Well this is like the
goose that lays the golden eggs, SysOps were lining up to have
him scan for them.
Around November of 1987 the SysOps here held a meeting to
confirm that we would form a net in the area. At that time I was
appointed Network Coordinator and John accepted the post of
Network Echomail Coordinator. We applied for a Net number and it
was approved. P.C. Information Exchange was assigned the
node/number of 1:282/1. John at this time started experimenting
with multiple lines and brought his system up to eight lines all
told. He was selling subscriptions at $20.00 a year to help
offset costs. At the time P.C. Info Exchange went down on May 1,
1988 there were in excess of 300 subscribers.
Through the first part of 1988 John established
communications with other major echomail hubs in the FIDONET and
became part of the backbone. The backbone is a massive mail
moving effort on the part of the network. Through this
association he was assigned the position of The Midwest Echomail
Star and started scanning mail on a more massive basis. I found
later he was not only scanning mail in massive amounts he was
actually delivering the mail by the use of a series of 800 lines
he had negotiated from the phone company. All told we discovered
after the fact he was maintaining a phone bill in excess of
$1000.00 a month. We also found that John did not pay his last
months phone bill upon departing.
Basically speaking, John had made a good presentation in the
area as a concerned SysOp and a friend of the BBS community.
The first real hints of the difficulties we were to
experience came at the end of April and the beginning of May
1988. On April 30, 1988 Both Don Seiford (1:282/3) and I received
phone calls from John indicating he was being called away to
Boston on the possible closing of a home he had there. He had in
the past made mention of a house in the east so his leaving
seemed plausible.
That evening for the first time in four months P.C. Info
Exchange was down. The line were busy and there was simply no
getting on the BBS. Voice calls placed to John were answered by
an answering machine. It might be informative that John
religiously answered the phone "This is John". It was a strong
personality quirk.
The next morning (May 1,1988) David Garner of Cascade
Electronics (a local supplier of computer products) called me at
my place of employment in quite a panic. He stated that John had
been scheduled to speak at a users group meeting that morning and
had not arrived. He also mentioned that he and John had quoted a
bid for the Minneapolis Public Library System and that as part of
the terms all the hardware had to be installed by that day. He
said that John had been impossible to reach for better than 24
hours. I told David that John had mentioned going to Boston and
should return that day.
David then called the Library System to confirm the hardware
had been delivered and was informed the the bid had not been let
at that point in time. Since David had provided hardware for that
bid to the tune of $48,000 he was deeply concerned.
This really caused us to be suspicious!!! We then called all
known possible places of employment he had mentioned and
confirmed that he had never been employed by any of the firms at
any time. We then made multiple sight inspections of his place of
residence over that day to confirm there was no traffic at his
home. We also interviewed some of Johns near neighbors and
confirmed he had been seen moving large amounts of computer
hardware from his residence.
We at this time were pretty well convinced John had skipped
town. David Garner agreed that he would file a report with the
sheriff in his area and I agreed to send a series of notes to the
FIDONET Region 14 Coordinator (At the time Ken Kaplan) explaining
the situation as well as to Johns major echomail ties requesting
information.
The next day I received a voice phone call from Ken
promising the full support of Region 14 and the net in cleaning
up this matter. We then agreed to let the law take it's course
but if any information became available we would share what we
found.
That night the deluge began, in one night I as Net
Coordinator received 85 messages requesting information on the
status of P.C. Info Exchange, other boards here were subjected to
bombing runs by nodes wondering where their echomail flow had
gone. In less than two days, the largest disruption of echomail
flow in the history of the FIDONET took place.
The next evening we received calls from many major FIDONET
nodes but the one most useful came in from Portland Oregon. The
SysOp informed us that the methods of operation of our John
Richard were quite a lot like a person who had done the same type
of thing in Portland. That persons name was John Aleshe.
We also received calls from the Denver area reporting that
John had been in that area working the Gray Market for computer
parts.
Well, the timing was perfect. The local police had John
checked in Colorado for driving offenses, that coordinated with a
file at the FBI and we had him.
Wednesday May 11,1988, I was invited along with David Garner
to appear at the Federal Building in Minneapolis to identify a
series of photographs. When we arrived we were introduced to Fred
A. Tremper an F.B.I Special Agent, Ron Anderson an Eden Prairie,
Minnesota Detective and Robert Dissel of the Goodhue County
Sheriffs office and asked separately to identify the
photographs. We agreed completely that the person pictured was
the person we knew as John Richard. These same photographs,
provided by the courtesy of the F.B.I are included in the
complete distribution package. They were scanned into VGA quality
images in GIF format.
We were then informed by Agent Tremper that John was wanted
in Texas for Attempted Capital Murder of a Police Officer as well
as scams too numerous to mention.
We were asked by the F.B.I. to try to keep the affair quiet
as they hoped John would resurface and they did not want to scare
him off. We agreed to hold this information for a period of three
months, the period has expired and we are releasing full
disclosure with this packet.
We would like to thank the many people who have contributed
to this effort but to be blunt many have requested to be left out
of any public display of gratitude. We can appreciate the
viewpoint and want to make one thing perfectly clear.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS PERSON!!!!!
He was known to be armed in this area, carry large amounts
of cash and has a Federal Warrant for Interstate Flight to Avoid
Prosecution for Attempted Murder of a Police Officer issued
against him. He has charges filed against him in the Minneapolis
area alone totaling $125,000 in losses generated by his
fraudulent behavior. He alienated BBS users and SysOps all over
the country. John has been a repeater, he seems to use the same
methods where he turns up so please feel free to post this data
where it seems appropriate.
PLEASE IF YOU SEE THIS PERSON, CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE!!!
DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE LIFE ENDANGERING!!!
If you have information on this individual please feel free
to send a confidential message to me at 1:282/0. You can also
call my BBS at (612)-938-4799 and leave a message to the SysOp.
If you see this individual please call the local police and
mention the NCIC Code is I.O. 5061 4-488.
The agent in charge of the case in the Minapolis area is:
Fred A. Tremper
110 South Fourth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(612)-339-7861
Please call your local FBI office or your local police
however. You will receive the fastest attention in that manner.
This document is being provided in two forms, one is a
FIDONEWS release version that is this document and a trascription
of the FBI wanted poster. There is a distribution file named
FRAUD.ARC that is file requestable from any Net 282 bulletin
board system.* It includes this file, offense reports, a
transcription of the wanted poster and four VGA compatible
scanned images in color and black and white. It will also be made
available to the coordinator level in the FIDONET. We will
distribute it as fast as is possible.
* Macintosh users may obtain a this packet in converted
form from The SmorgasBoard, 612-888-3712 in its new user file directory.
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Date: Mon 1 Aug 88 09:27:41-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V4 #13
Delphi Mac Digest Monday, August 1, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
RE: MAC II Composite video board
Case Problem
Mathematica
Scanners (2 messages)
MultiLith Masters in a Laserwriter
HD Backup
re: Another Finder/Desktop Idea
re: Open Folders
LaserWriter 6.0 Driver *feature*
RE: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #90 (3 messages)
re: Re: Hard Disk Icon
GrowZone procs (4 messages)
Disk catalogger (2 messages)
MacSqueeze incompatible with Excel 1.5
OpenResFile bug
Police Quest
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #66
re: mathematica (2 messages)
MAC-Wang emulation
Smalltalk V/Mac?
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 1 Aug 88 09:28:47-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #97
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, July 30, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 97
Today's Topics:
3Com PairTamers and PhoneNet (LONG)
Crystal Quest
Re: Clipper compatible compiler for the Mac
Species of Mice
Re: Mac-IBM Communication (2 messages)
Color menu hacking on the MAC II
Accelerator info wanted
vt100 emulators
Re: Question on Thesaurus I,II,III files
Send me your poor, your tired, your huddle bugs...
VT220 Emulation? (2 messages)
Re: Looking for Business graphics applications
Fourth Dimension, is it any good? - Yes!
Re: Supermac Dataframe XP60 hard drive
Re: Undergroud comic fonts
Re: Clipper compatible compiler for the Mac
Re: Fourth Dimension, is it any good? - Yes!
Hard disk parking
List of books on Mac programming for a Univ. microstore
Word 3.01 bug
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 1 Aug 88 09:30:59-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #98
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, July 30, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 98
Today's Topics:
Using Panasonic printer and Grappler?
Lisa (mac XL) help required
Imagewriter II jamming solutions
Re: Hard disk parking (2 messages)
Re: Fourth Dimension, is it any good? - Yes! (No!)
Word 3.02 Numbering Question
Any experiences with Epic 2400 internal modem
Symbolic Equation Solvers
Re: Word 3.02 Numbering Question
Apple Tape Backup SC
How Large Free?
Re: Any experiences with Epic 2400 internal modem
SuperSpool v5.0 finally released
Need info on Shiva net devices.
Re: Supermac Dataframe XP60 hard drive
TI/Apple MicroExplorer
Mac XL questions
Mirror hard disks
Piece length limit in Musicworks
Telnet for the Mac
Re: Imagewriter II jamming solutions
Request Info ASAP Please!
Looking for Lucida Math font for LW +/NT
Re: Symbolic Equation Solvers
Re: softpc
Re: Multi-finder STR#'s
Heraldry on the Mac?
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 1 Aug 88 09:33:37-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #99
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, July 30, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 99
Today's Topics:
CHEMDRAW
Changing FullWrite citations
2 systems on 1 hard disk
Re: Symbolic Equation Solvers
Re: X under MacOS ?
Re: Request Info ASAP Please!
How do I patch the system code ?
Hooking the Color Picker?
Re: TrackControl question
Help on Tabs (2 messages)
Sound help!
Appletalk Transaction Protocol
Bug in Scroll2 CNTL resource.
Drawing part of a picture.
Re: MacTutor gripe!!!
Re: Change in System Tools 6.0 Menu Manager behavior.
Re: System 6.0 and 2nd screen
Re: Appletalk Transaction Protocol
Re: Bug in Scroll2 CNTL resource.
flicker-free drawing
cdev question
Re: Is MacApp C-compatible?
Re: cdev question
Re: flicker-free drawing
Prolog under MPW?
Re: flicker-free drawing
Palette animations
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 1 Aug 88 09:38:10-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #100
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, July 30, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 100
Today's Topics:
Sound Manager under sys 6.0
A few questions about Ticks
Re: flicker-free drawing
Re: Hooking the Color Picker?
Suggestion for console emulator
Tiny bug in A/UX 1.0 finger (2 messages)
Screens supported for A/UX
Manx Release Atzec C 3.6 and the Source Level Debugger
LaCie Internal 80 Meg drive
Re: Symbolic Equation Solvers
Re: Mac Plus to LaserWriter with no AppleTalk
Re: Symbolic Equation Solvers (2 messages)
font/da mover and training
4 Meg-SIMMs
Re: SoftPC
Mathematica - I like it ( a lot), but beware of the hype
Upgrades (Crystal Quest)
Re: how do I find bit-depth of a window?
Saving information about LaserWriter usage.
Re: Sys 6.0 sound manager on a plus
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 15 Aug 88 13:22:23-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #104
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, August 14, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 104
Today's Topics:
discontinuities in Mathematica
Re: Mac games [Was: Crystal Quest] (2 messages)
Videotrax
Imagewriter LQ prints only BOLDface?
Unreadable Floppy Disks
MacWorks Plus
Re: Jasmine Flower Icon Patch
Re: Mac games [Was: Crystal Quest] (2 messages)
Using a SUN SCSI Hard Disk?
Re: HELP!!! --- Transparency Management
NuBus card design
MIDI driver routines
Re: NuBus card design
Re: what the heck is "reentrant"?
LightSpeed Pascal gurus, here's a simple problem...
LSC math libraries (68881 especially)
Fullwrite arrows
Re: LSC math libraries (68881 especially)
SUM bugs
Novy Accelerator Board for MacPlus
Re: HP PaintJet Drivers
MR-DOS ?
Re: Mac games [Was: Crystal Quest]
Wanted - CRC polynomial used in macbinary header
Re: Macplus to Laser writer no Apple talk.
very slow hard disk powerup
Re: Symbol-Bold for Apple LaserWriter
Mac II composite video
Continuum
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 15 Aug 88 13:23:22-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #105
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, August 14, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 105
Today's Topics:
FormsProgrammer
Re: Instruction Cashe Questions (Mac-II)
Re: Mac II composite video
LaserWriter Bitmap Fonts
Re: Novy Accelerator Board for MacPlus
Re: SONY CCDV9 --> Mac image
3.5" Disk Drive Problems
capturing TV images on the Mac
Re: creating a new font
Re: Continuum questions (2 messages)
ADB Joystick
Automatic headers in MS-Word?
FORTRAN-callable graphics for Absoft v2.3...
Mini-review: Grappler LQ
bug in MacProject II
Anybody Tried MacExpress from ALSoft?
Re: capturing TV images on the Mac
Re: FORTRAN-callable graphics for Absoft v2.3...
Re: ADB Joystick
How does one reversibly get rid of AU/X ?
Chess font
PostScript version of Chicago
Re: very slow hard disk powerup
ImageWriter II paper jam fix
Seikosha printer summary (long)
StuffIt vs. Arc format
Re: spontaneous renaming of Mac files
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 15 Aug 88 13:24:22-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #106
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, August 14, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 106
Today's Topics:
Re: Correction to my last posting on stripping the system...
Expensive LaserWriter Pram Failures
Texture or MacTex users please advise
Re: Siggraph88 and a deal
Update on "NFS and TCP/IP for the Mac"
Re: Siggraph88 and a deal
MacDraw to EPS
What is a "registered user group"?
Changing color pictures into B&W(grayscaled)
Mac II for Image Processing
hierDA and Menufonts2
Re: Update on "NFS and TCP/IP for the Mac"
Re: Mail Gateway between MacOS and UNIX
Re: Multi-Tray feed for LWII?
Re: hierDA and Menufonts2
Find & Search in Word 3.01
C source formatters
Re: uncompressing FullWrite
Encryption
NuBus IO cards sought
Pointer Subtraction in THINK C 3.0
Finding the height of a character (2 messages)
cdev/Control Panel bug or undocumented action?
Re: LSC & hierarchical menus
Re: *** MacsBug caused this Exception *** FEdit bug
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- Lance ]
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Date: Mon 15 Aug 88 13:25:49-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #107
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, August 14, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
Re: A few questions about Ticks
Re: AT&T C++ ports to the Mac? (3 messages)
Texas Instruments Mac II's
Re: Scrap Manager (PICT Format)
Re: Pointer Subtraction in THINK C 3.0
Messing around with an object oriented screen dump
Float to integer conversion problem in LSC 3.0?
Re: cdev/Control Panel bug or undocumented action?
Re: Float to integer conversion problem in LSC 3.0?
Notice to LSP and Turbo Pascal Users (Re: TML Pascal)
MIDILisp for the Mac??
Multiple Screens
Re: MIDILisp for the Mac??
CloseResFile problem?
Re: Scrap Manager (PICT Format)
Re: Register saving conventions (3 messages)
Reading externally clocked data from the serial port (AppleTalk?)
curses
Opening a document under Multifinder from the Finder
Re: Register saving conventions
Re: RubberBanding
MultiFinder CurApNames
Laser-writer Memory Map Request
Re: Making a Mac SE think its a II
LSC -> MPW object file format conversion?
What do LSC fopen() & fclose() do to a new file?
Re: CDEV's How To Make
A/UX as an ethernet/localtalk gateway
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- Lance ]
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