Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:51230 comp.misc:8412 misc.legal:15473 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Pirates and Houston Amiga BBSes Message-ID: <_-12NG4xds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 6 Mar 90 23:02:59 GMT References: <5249@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: > Note that many BBS's in the Houston area, and elsewhere (attctc, > jolnet, illuminati, etc) are being shut down as part of an FBI sting, > which seems to involve Bell South 911 and possibly ATT 3B2 software. I realise that it's fashionable in the rest of the U.S. to think of Texas as one big homogenous "lump", and I know that many Houstonians might normally be flattered to have you consider Dallas as some sort of suburb of Houston, but really it isn't. Also, while the Amiga operating system has a lot in common with UNIX, the Amiga and UNIX communities aren't quite as closely integrated as you seem to be implying. Well, thanks for the kudos. I'll let John or Greg or someone assemble a Dallas-based response... -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ "I've about decided that the net is not the place to do the right v thing. It might violate a charter somewhere ..." -- Spenser Aden