From:	"Freddy Frypp no more" <JAMES-CUENO@*********.edu>
Subject:	Re: the stranger will be missed
Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:37:15 CST

> >why is fast-jack the best in SR? who said he was? how long
> Gee, considering that the people at the Nexus, the people who spawned the
> real shadowland, the place where all info goes, and the place where the
> otaku were started, seeing as how the people in charge there, the people who
> no one messes with, don't mess with Fastjack (read Denver)

Uh.... don't he and Bash go 'round and 'round?


along with all
> the other stuff that is said about him in the books (stuff that's actually
> canon rather than BS made up on this board) looking at all that, I guess I
> just presumed that he was the best. Do you know another _canon_ decker that
> is better than Fastjack?

Uh... yeah, all of the big systems admin at the Nexus.

> So what you're saying is that any idiot with any amount of patience can
> change their T/D? I guess I'll just have my street sam do that since he
> knows some deckers who can get the right warez.

Why not? Steel Lynx does it in the Rigger Black Book and he's not a
decker. He's a merc, and he is a world class merc at that.

jim