From:	Mark Imbriaco <perlhacker@*********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Couple of things...
Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:57:38 -0500

>Part of Cthulu will indeed be investigating Shadowland, but the overall
>scope will be much greater. The thing isn't going to make a pest of itself,
>and the sysadmins will probably notice that something was poking around, but
>if "good" deckers can edit their timestamps on a quasi-regular basis then
I'd
>say that the esteemed sysadmins aren't going to be able to rebuff this thing
>out of hand.

They could if they wanted -- as long as it doesn't do anything overt like
trying to trace anyone or alter the system, it won't be squashed. The
The deckers for the Nexus and Shadowland are in my opinion the best in the
world, and it _is_ their system we're talking about here. If they wanted
the Cthulu construct out, it would be. :-)

>For example, I think it would be reasonable for a large, determined force to
>discover that a message had just been sent to Haze, though perhaps not what
>that message (the one from Farmer) contained or who sent it.

That's probably possible by monitoring connections to and from Sland, which
would neatly sidestep the whole 'would the sland sysops squash this'
question,
and make everyone's life simpler. :-)

-Mark