MKL@SRI-NIC.ARPA (Mark Lottor) (05/22/88)
GATEWAY TO NET TEN -- Mark Lottor [Original words and music by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant] There's a hacker who's sure all that's coax is fast and he's buying a gateway to net ten. When he gets it he'll know if the ports are all closed with a SYN he can get what he sent for. Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh and he's buying a gateway to net ten. There's an RFC on the wall but he wants to be sure cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. In a note on the page there's a warning that says sometimes all of our code is broken. Don't ya know, it makes me wonder. There's an error I get when I send to the net and my packets are lost and retransmitting. In my logs I have seen loops of mail thru the machine, and the screams of those who are hacking. Oooh, it makes me wonder. And it's whispered that soon if we all fix and tune then the packets will reach their destinations. And a new day will dawn for hosts that stay long and the telnets will echo quite faster. Ohhhhh, it makes me wonder. If there's a bustle in your cisco, don't be alarmed now it's just a quick ping for the NIC machine. Yes there are two paths you can route by, but in the long haul there's still time to change the protocol. Yowwww, it makes me wonder. Your host is loaded and it will slow in case you don't know, the unix's are asking you to join them. Dear hacker, do you see the overflow, and did you know your gateway is still under development. And as we wind out more coax, and gateways slower than our hosts, There goes a message we all know, it updates routes and wants to show how everything still turns quite slow. And if you listen very hard, the bits will come to you at last. When all are ones and ones are all, to be a rubout and not a null. And he's buying a gateway to net ten... -------
ahd@OMNIGATE.CLARKSON.EDU (MESSAGE AGENT) (05/31/88)
This is an automatic reply. Feel free to send additional mail, as only this one notice will be generated. The following is a prerecorded message, sent for ahd 27 November 1987 I don't know what to say in this, my last note from Buffalo, New York. Good and bad things have happened to me since the end of October that defy description, and the only people who would believe me already have enough stories to tell about me without creating new legends. The people who made the good things happen know who they are, and as for the bad things... I prefer to lump them together as acts of God and leave it at that. However, the end result of those past four weeks is that I now have survived my first week working for AGS Information Services on site at IBM Kingston preparing to change software that I'm not allowed to discuss, I enjoy the work, and I expect it to last a while. I also have found an apartment in Kingston, and will be tearing down my computer to be moved there as soon as I log off. My new address as of 1 December 1987 is: Andrew H. Derbyshire 578 Broadway, Apt 6 Kingston, NY 12401 My telephone will be hooked up on 4 December, and the number will be: 914-339-7425 Note that use of either of these is better than sending me mail on omnigate, because now that I am working I intend on letting my online mail exchanges die a natural death and use real world communications instead. This advice applies to answering this letter, so please send me a holiday greeting at 578 Broadway instead of answering this online. Most of all though, don't be a stranger. Drew