Ü ÜßÝ Ü Ü Ü ßÝ ßÝ Ý Ý Ý Ý Û Ý Ý Ý BLaH Ý ß Ý ÜßÜ Ý Ý File ÝßÜ Ý ÜÝ ÝßÝÜÝ Written August 12th, 1992 #021 Ý Ýig Ýong ÜßÝ Ýnd Ý Ýairy Ý Ý Ý Þ Ý Ý Ý ÝÜß ÝÜÜÝ ßÜÜßÞ ÜÝ ÞÜ Presents Ú ÄÄ ¿ "Very, Very Offended" ³ by ³ Constantine À ÄÄ Ù To whom it may concern, not many of you because I am perfectly aware how few of you really care about me, indeed, how many of you talk about me behind my back and plot to take my life constantly, and that includes the FBI agents who inserted a radio in my brain when I wasn't looking, but to WHOM it may concern... I'm rather ticked off. I mean, I rush to BLaH WHQ, all ready and eager to get my latest issue of BLaH and soak up some mystic wisdom from our leader, and what do I get? A lengthy piece attacking the most sacred convention in bbsing, the obnoxious tfile group. I am referring to issue #20, for those of you who have your indexes handy. This is the file where Guido, a man who I once saw as being up there with Bob Dobbs and, yes, even Elvis, DARES to lash out at this honoured tradition. Well, Mr. Sanchez, just a few words from an individual who APPRECIATES what tfile groups do for our electronic community. 1: How can you be so cynical? Tfile groups that insist on repeated, pointless referances to Neuromancer, cyberpunks and cyberspace are only trying to prove one thing-- that most of them have really read an entire book. Literary ambitions are important for tfile writers-- witness the sad fate of the "Little Engine that was K00L" group. 2: VERY few tfile groups release things that are not theirs. Plagarism is nearly non-existant in the bbs community, as everyone knows. The sad truth of the matter is that all of those cyberpunk-novel quotes, misspelled compilations of heavy metal and "Weird Al" lyrics, and the like, were all originally written by the tfile groups and STOLEN! Strewth! William Gibson and Pink Floyd have been doing it for years. What looks like plagarism to the untrained eye is actually a clever attempt to reclaim the copyright. 3: The index-every-eight-issue concept is designed for the aid of tfile collectors, who will go to unbelievable ends to keep their precious files in order. Personally, I laminate mine and keep every file in a dust-free mylar bag with an acid-proof cardboard backing. 4: Lie about their true headquarters? Shame on you! I don't see what's so hard to believe about a bunch of European twelve-year-olds uploading 5k lyric transcriptions to tiny boards in Buttfuck, Ohio, do you? 5: Ragging on other tfile groups for no reason is very unprofessional. Only snotnose punks like those assholes at MaDCaP do that. 6: Manipulating people just to get interviewed by Phrack is a waste of energy. Manipulate Phrack to get interviewed by Phrack, manipulate people to get MONEY. 7: There's only so much mileage you can get out of "fuck" and "shit". I suggest using "pudlicking maggot scum" for emphasis in those sticky literary corners. But most of all, I am shocked by the contention that most tfile writers just do so in order to put another nifty acronym at the end of their names-- this is shameless cynicism at its height, no more and no less. Until next we speak, I remain, Constantine. BLaH GD OTO YARBLES FTL-INC-NOT Rotary Club AA AAA ASPCA BS SOB AADA Coven of the Amber Sun Elvis Anonymous ETC ETC ETC... Please address all fan mail and inquiries to me, care of Phrack Magazine. [phrack@stormking.com] Thank you. {---End of File, dammit!... Safe-T-Gnads v0.92á.7b says "5516 Bytes Total"--} Uh huh... this file goes out to Guido Sanchez, who writes all of the shit from the end of file to the propaganda line. BLaH ts are, as 'usual'.. ö Nun-Beaters Anonymous ö <708>251-5094 ö 110/16.8k Carbon Nation ö <708>965-8965 ö 9600/16.8k 927-3028 ö 2400/16.8k sysop can't make up his The Realm Of Death ö <419>475-3089 ö 2400/16.8k damn mind> ö {---Rebuttal Line. If you've got an opinion, write your own damn tfile------}