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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: I.B.A.
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 09:58:56 -0700
>>>>>[ I.B.A., your asking for trouble. I'll find out what the file said
and
I'll make sure you get your just reward. ]<<<<<
-- Raven the Mage <09:58:32/08-04-54>

***** Encrypt: I.B.A. MPCP only
>>>>>[ Hey! What are you trying to do! Your getting me in some serious
hot
water over here. Isn't there some rule about getting other guys girlfriends all
worked up? Leave Raven alone before she gets on my case. ]<<<<<
-- Nightstalker <10:00:14/08-04-54>

>>>>>[ And a few more things, I.B.A. Call me sweetie pie or cutie again
and you
will suffer. If you ever suggest I get any cyberware I'll make sure that you
never get a date again. Do you understand? My name is Raven. Call me that or
don't call me at all. ]<<<<<
-- Raven the Mage <10:03:09/08-04-54>

>>>>>[ Jaez, don't got out with that slimeball I.B.A. ]<<<<<
-- Raven the Mage <10:03:54/08-04-54>
Message no. 2
From: "James L. Bobolia" <James.L.Bobolia@*********.EDU>
Subject: IBA
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 07:11:31 EST
>>>>>[Yes IBA, I remember you. You took several files from our database.
You
may even have gotten a fair sum for them but I'm sure your employers were not
overly happy with the results. The files you took were planted there just as
an added security measure. No one has gotten to our RED5 files until
recently.

And Red, don't think our last encounter is indicative of our future.]<<<<<
-- Lightspeed <04:16:20/15-15-54>
Message no. 3
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: I.B.A.
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:02:27 -0700
>>>>>[ Well I got some bloody time to ma'self, so me and Highlander got
down to
working out how to deal with all the bloody toast frames that are still
drekkin up the matrix. So after a' run a few test progs on the frames or
as Highlander said "A wee knoch ta niddle the cood oota this wee beastie" we
discovered what had made this thing go so fraggin wierd.

Turned out that at the base of each drekkin frame sat a small piece of self
altering code just like the ones found in the old frames of MONICA but no where
near as complicated. Coupled with that was some code to make these things
grow, or replicate at certain random time intervals, on top of all that was
the major piss-off code together with the subliminal messages.

So we noticed how succesful the modded GNU shield code was against the frames
so it seemed tha the best way to do the same fraggin thing again. Which we
did. We now have two constructs, the pint pot and the bottle of beer, the
pint pot is based off the toaster frames and the original self altering code
with a few major fraggin differences. First off this code ignores any icon
that isn't a toaster and second they have a self destruct mechanism built in
of 24 hours which is the time we reckon it will take to fully clear up the
Seattle LTG.

Oh why did we make a pint pot and beer, well that was Highlander's idea, he
noticed the toasters seemed bleedin afraid of the beer, maybe it's some fraggin
wierd thing like the toaster wants all grain to be made into bread and hence
toast and nothin else. Anyway it seems to work aright, the bottle which is
resuable and doesn't replicate is for use by indvidual deckers should they
come across one of the little bleeders. Just empty the bottle of beer over the
toaster, you may have to chase after them, the little fraggers seems to know
what the beer is. Once you have the thing cornered you have to steel yourself
against the barrage of drek it produces about beer being a perverted use of
grain and that the only natural thing is to make it into bread. Then just pour
the beer onto the toaster, it can't fight back but it will whine alot until
all it's circuits short out :) he he you know have 1 dead toaster frame.

Do that to every toaster frame you find, the ramapaging pint pot frames should
take care of the rest. Oh, as to Talky itself, well someone needs to find his
matrix connection so that we can pull the plug and get this overwith at last.
We've a special beer pump frame just waiting to be put into position hovering
over it's matrix outlet in case he should reconnect, that'll destroy anymore
frames the little bleeder makes.

Right that about covers it. Oh Yoshida if you even fraggin think about suing
me I'll change the code on the pint pots so that instead of destroying the
toasters it sends them all to your system where they can multiply quite happily.
Then ya can charge yourself for using your oh-so-special code that casused us
more problems than it was worth. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
Message no. 4
From: Joshua James Harrison <harrij4@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: I.B.A.
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 01:56:08 -0500
>>>>>[HOORAY! At last! One problem is out of the way! Only 999,999 left to
go
(or so it seems). With Talky now easily put out of the way, I can focus on the
other major projects in my datebook... tracking down Dante, tracking down
Talky's physical location, and trying to track down information on this
'purge' deal... oh yeah, and wiping any Barney references I find off the face
of the earth... I'm not crazy about that touchy-feely dino... I think a
little-known songwriter put it best, when, in 1993, he wrote the following
little piece...

(Chorus)
Let's drop-kick Barney into outer space...
I'd give anything to see that little purple face (go flyin!)
Out past Jupiter and out past Mars...
Let's drop kick Barney, out into the stars.

It ain't his purple color or his dinosaur background
that makes me resent his being around...
There's just one thing that we all want to know...
Why weren't Barney's Parents using birth control?

(chorus)

I don't care what Michael Jackson does with little boys...
I don't care what Madonna does with all her toys...
There's just one nagging question and it will not stop...
Just what does Barney do with Baby Bop?

(chorus and close)

Well, what do you think? It took some searching, but I found it...]<<<<<
-- Coyote (Bash bash bash Barney in a blender)

>>>>>[Great... now only if you had devoted more time to the problems at
hand...]<<<<<
-- Chance (01:56:14/01-27-55)
Message no. 5
From: "M.R. Jamil" <M.R.Jamil@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: I.B.A?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 12:56:59 +0100
>>>>>[Yow man, I.B.A, where have you been? I've been frantically trying
to contact you man.! I'll be at the usual place at 22:00.]<<<<<
-- Taliana <12:57:55/28.04.55>
Message no. 6
From: The Powerhouse <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: I.B.A?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 15:59:08 +0100
>>>>>[ Hey Taliana, frag off right, it's not my fault your father kicked
you
out for getting pregnant, I tell you it wasn't me, no fraggin way, go pester
someone else yer fraggin runner wannabe. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
Message no. 7
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: I.B.A?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:24:05 -0700
>>>>>[ I.B.A. just who is Taliana? Ah know ya tend ta like women who are
a
little younger than ya are (ok, a lot younger), but what is this about ya
getting her pregnant? ARE you the father, or are ya just the convenient excuse?
Ah tend ta not look kindly on men who run out on women after they have their fun
and sow their oats, it has happened a few times back down south to friends and
family of mine, of course shot-gun weddings also happejned in some of those
cases.]<<<<<
-- Circuit Breaker <back in business>
Message no. 8
From: The Powerhouse <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: IBA
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 17:07:27 +0100
>>>>>[ Heh heh, IBA has had to go out on some business so I thought I'd
fill
you in on his poor predicament. Oooh dear, my eyes are still watering at the
amount of humor that the last few days have provided me.

I don't know if you remember, but a good while ago, can't remember exactly how
long ago, but IBA got one of his young girls in some trouble and had a vendetta
against him from her father. Well we managed to convince the father that it
was a real 'bad' idea trying to make a hit on IBA and everything seemed ok.
The girl <was 16 at the time>, went back to ma and pa wageslave and the gal
was going to get an abortion.

That at least was the plan, it seems however the gal had a big falling out with
her folks and did a runner. She's spent the rest of the time hanging out with
God's Razors, a thrill gang based in Tacoma. Well she gave birth and 3 weeks
ago what happens but IBA runs into her while on some gang business of his own
and she gives him hell ! Real hell.. Aww the poor lad. It was quite amusing,
after he'd told her to frag off a few times and thrown in various other
accusations about the parentage of the child and what the gal had been up to,
and what's more trying to do. He calmed down, still pretty fragged off, but
at this point about 5 of the gals gang friends arrived. Now myself and IBA
can handle 5 gangers before breakfast, but ahh this was his ballgame. I
was enjoying myself far too much, in the end he agreed to an independant DNA
check by a fixer we all knew and it came up positive :)

IBA is still fragged off but he's been getting used to the idea. In fact that's
where he's just gone to visit the gal and pass on a spare credstick or two we
had lying around.

Seriously though, don't rib him too much, but ohhh you should have seen his
face when the gal looked down and said 'Luke, come and meet your daddy'
]<<<<<
-Punisher (17:07:14/8.8.55)
Message no. 9
From: Gian-Paolo Musumeci <musumeci@***.LIS.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Re: IBA
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 13:01:08 -0500
*****Private to: Punisher
>>>>>[Yer serious!?!?!?!]<<<<<
-- Dark Angel <Fallen/Soul>
Message no. 10
From: The Powerhouse <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: IBA ?
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 14:29:02 +0100
>>>>>[ Lister, is IBA still with you ? He took off fairly fast after a
meal
last night and said he was meeting you for a booze up. ]<<<<<
-The Powerhouse (14:28:48/6.9.55)
Message no. 11
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: IBA ?
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 20:05:12 -0700
>>>>>[ Sorry Powerhouse, but I.B.A. left us around 10 or 11 o'clock last
night.
After just reading that thing from the Sysop, I think we both can figure out why
he didn't party all night long. In fact he only had about 3 beers which is
fraggin nil for him.]<<<<<
-- Lister <20:08:00/09-06-55>
Message no. 12
From: RAH <lets6310@****.LET.RUU.NL>
Subject: Re: IBA ?
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 11:07:18 CST
I'd say, it went to the tower where it got stuck
Rah Zar
Message no. 13
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: I.B.A.
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 21:09:58 -0700
***** Private: I.B.A.
>>>>>[ Hi sugar, Ah'h just writin ta tell ya ta show up virtually at
***Encrypt Date:Time:location***. We need some help in takin care of the that
"Lucifer"construct that Dante devised and unleashed when we killed him. And if
ya come and help out, Ah'll make it up ta ya by lettin ya take me
out.]<<<<<
-- Circuit Breaker <Dante is DEAD>

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