brian@sdccsu3.UUCP (Brian Kantor) (05/25/84)
--- Sender: "Harris B. Edelman" <HEDELMAN@JPL-VLSI.ARPA> Following is relayed from MBBS Headquarters RCP/M in Los Angeles, is Tom Tcimpidis' follow-up to his first message re: the seizure last week by LAPD/Pacific Telephone of his BBS: Msg#: 46 Date: 05/22/84 2:54 PM From: TOM TCIMPIDIS To: ALL Re: MOG-UR UPDATE I, today, talked with Peggy Watt who is the legal editor for Infoworld. I gave her a synopsis of what occurred and the names an numbers of the indivduals involved. She is going to look into the matter and see what she can determine through her contacts (she agrees that the situations seem out of line) and then get back to me. (I have also received quries from the L.A. Times and KCBS TV.) She would also be interested in sitting in on a meeting of the Sysops of various systems (something Lynzie of DYM69 suggested) to discuss the situation and what can be done to rectify and prevent it. I would like to arrange such a meeting as soon as possible. Please call me at 366-4837 and we will proceed. Everyone needs to stick together in this because it could ultimately affect us all, nt just me. P.S. Please spread this message around on any other systems that you access. Thanks. Tom Tcimpidis 5/21/84 ------- From: ssalzman.es@XEROX.ARPA Date: 24 May 84 11:11:09 PDT Subject: Update on MOG-URs BBS Confiscation Rick Gaitley, who is sysop of Xanadu RCPM/ and a friend of Tom's, decided to call the phone company and find out why his system was confiscated. Apperently, someone left an AT&T calling card number on Tom's board and it remained there for over a month. It's very possible that Tom had no idea of that message being there. Ths same calling card number showed up on Xanadu after Tom left the message there about what happened to his board. Rick immediatly deleted it. At any rate, I can see why the phone company might get a little ticked off. According to the phone company, the reason they took the system (supposedly) was to try and find the person who left the message. The person Rick talked to is the one that actually took Tom's machine. If anyone cares to find out any more, the number of Ricks system (Xanadu) is (818)906-1636. - Isaac Salzman Ssalzman.es@Xerox ------------- -- "Actually, tomatoes are fags." -Brian Kantor, UC San Diego Kantor@Nosc ihnp4 \ decvax \ akgua ----- sdcsvax ----- brian dcdwest/ ucbvax/