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Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@********.BITNET>
Subject: Time/Date stamp...fool your friends, fun at parties....
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 11:35:00 CST
> -Kurt Rauscher <time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the
> future.....> wrote...

>I agree that it is a fad, but I will also quote Shadowtech:
> ">>>>>[Oh, sure I tell you. You tell somebody else. Next
thing I know,
>everybody'll be doing it. The phone company won't be able to track anybody's
>access. You know what, doc? You may actually be onto something
here.]<<<<<
> -The Smiling Bandit <Strikes again!/Ha-Ha-Ha>"



So you're saying is that one should have (approximately):

Computer Skill 13+
Computer Theory 9+

Hacking Pool 25+

And a deck with a Masking attribute of what? Following your earlier
trend, one would probably choose 9 again. That would mean that a deck
(assuming all deck attributes are the same) with a MPCP of not less than 12.
That seems a decent set of requirements to me....

[NOTE: This commentary is not because I wish to justify my own use of altering
the time/date stamp (I exceed the criteria by quite a bit, but personally, I
have always prefered my "null" stamp to some inane message...but to each his
own.) but rather to point out that I feel that not ALL deckers would have
knowledge or be able to perform such an operation.]

Doctor Doom
Message no. 2
From: 'Evil' ERic Mehlhaff <mehlhaff@***.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: Re: Time/Date stamp...fool your friends, fun at parties....
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 15:21:23 PDT
Doctor Doom <JCH8169%TAMSUMMA.BITNET@****.Berkeley.EDU> recently wrote:


>
>> -Kurt Rauscher <time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the
>> future.....> wrote...
>
>>I agree that it is a fad, but I will also quote Shadowtech:
>> ">>>>>[Oh, sure I tell you. You tell somebody else.
Next thing I know,
>>everybody'll be doing it. The phone company won't be able to track anybody's
>>access. You know what, doc? You may actually be onto something
here.]<<<<<
>> -The Smiling Bandit <Strikes again!/Ha-Ha-Ha>"
>
>So you're saying is that one should have (approximately):
>
> Computer Skill 13+ Computer Theory 9+
> Hacking Pool 25+
>
>own.) but rather to point out that I feel that not ALL deckers would have
>knowledge or be able to perform such an operation.]

>>>>>[ Well, this sounds reasonable if you're always figguring out how
to do
it yourself. But if someone (and I'll not mention any names), tells you how, or
gives you a program to do it, it's trivial. Just make sure you get the program
in source format and you check the code for unwanted surprises.]<<<<<<
>>>--LicheMaster < 23@#$[]1#/ 43NO CARRIER>

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