December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Is Anonymous Communication only for "Criminals"? (was: Re: UCENET II and Peter duh Silva)
by Charlie Comsec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- gburnore(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote: > On 19 Dec 1997 23:01:59 +0100, Charlie Comsec wrote: > :Actually in the case of anonymous e-mail you have one additional > :safeguard. You can ask to be blocked from receiving anonymous e-mail. Try > :telling the telephone company that you want to be blocked from receiving > :calls from any pay phone! > > It's available now. The first to use it are pager companies. Why would a pager company want to block calls from pay phones? Haven't you seen that commercial (for MCI?) where the kids crowd into that phone booth and page someone to pick them up from school before the big storm hits? Imagine if they had gotten a recording saying "I'm sorry. You can't page this number from a pay phone." Really bad PR! - --- Finger <comsec(a)nym.alias.net> for PGP public key (Key ID=19BE8B0D) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNJvy7Abp0h8ZvosNAQHvxgf+K2qymGG+uDduMJbDHw94OhAWioubIXHe KK7dXYstS1qFpoG7zJgbcJprYWMsdOQD9c/GD68CmzOj+BYLRQ+7cMLyFWmvIylJ pVMBIuocLKFo2CXU5m5aHNb6MUoTkqAZA4ZOP6HlWVFbXdOlrzyD689qpDTNOwsH DEJtlF4Iu1wogZN5D1rh4Obr1hTPgihJH4cXqkfpwsaAnGKB0uHn8akhgGVFP0rL ovDLmiCGoCUFTTOgKGPv1Z3+dZ07TEy3yhLEbJPrEfw6Cua8F8C7fD0+ZymErJoJ qvr51KoxKp5LJAgZgAgYgCcmTEhVoiPiO6Hafyu6x5r4QKYxe+ONMA== =yaoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Civil War Crypto Question...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I have been reading [1] regarding the beginning of the modern martial traditions and methods. In chapter 2, 'Tactical and Strategic Reorganization', in which the birth of the Signal Corp under Myer (by order of McClellan) and the ensuing conflicts with Military Telegraph under Stager are discussed. On pp. 43 - 44 there is a discussion on some processes that Myer implimented including a 'cipher disk' whereby the Union was able to change their telegraph codes on an hourly schedule. It was apparently very effictive in dealing with taps and such. Anyone know of another source that discusses this disk? I looked in Applied Crypto as well as several other books including a Dover reprint of a book from the 30's w/o success. I would in particular like to see a photo or other diagram of its operation. Thanks for any help you can provide. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________| [1] The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command Edward Hagerman ISBN 0-253-30546-2

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Re: Civil War Crypto Question...
by jim＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate skribis: > On pp. 43 - 44 [of Hagerman's "The American Civil War..."] > ... a 'cipher disk' whereby the Union was able to > change their telegraph codes on an hourly schedule. It was apparently very > effictive in dealing with taps and such. > > Anyone know of another source that discusses this disk? I looked in Applied There's a very brief mention of a disk in "Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900", available from the NSA Central Security Service. (Series 1, Pre-World War 1, Volume 1, United States Cryptologic History), Center for Cryptologic History, by Ralph E. Weber, 1993. On page 110 he says: "The North, on the other hand, adopted a handy "on-line" means of changing the basic flag code by prearrangement or at will, even within the act of transmission. This was done with a disk, in which the alphabet on the inner disk revolved against an outer ring of flag combination, enabling an instant change of code." My impression from this and from the chapter summary is that the disk was used for flag codes but not telegraphy. For telegraphy the Union apparently used a word-based route transposition that Friedman found unimpressive. It's clearly different from the brass cipher disk used by the Confederates, which used letters rather than flag positions as the ciphertext alphabet. Weber doesn't include pictures of the disk. Jim Gillogly Sterday, 2 Yule S.R. 1998, 05:45 12.19.4.14.0, 10 Ahau 18 Mac, First Lord of Night

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17 Dec '03

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by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Is Unix dying--or even dead?
by S. M. Halloran 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 19 Dec 97, Bill Stewart was found to have commented thusly: > At 12:08 PM 12/19/1997 GMT, phelix(a)vallnet.com wrote: > >>Silicon Graphics Inc.'s plan .... Windows NT > > >Does this mean that Unix is dying? > >No, it means that graphics professionals are buying Wintel boxes > >instead of SGI's expensive workstations. ( a shame really, > > SGI make some damn nice workstations, but that > >pesky price/performance ratio is pushing people into > >high end Wintel boxes) > > It's not just price/performance ratio - > it's affordable price for adequate performance. > Now that Wintel boxes can crunch integers as well as a Cray-1, > a $2K box has enough horsepower for all but really cutting-edge graphics, > and you're going to buy the same monitor regardless of CPU. > Sure, a $10K SGI probably has far more than 5x the performance, > but not many people need it, especially if they're developing > applications for other people to use on cheaper boxes (games...) > as opposed to producing TV shows, music videos, or running > scientific visualization. > > That's been a problem for the accounting and office-work for years > - while Microsoft can bloat away any CPU you've got, > an 8086 or 286 box could run spreadsheets, simple chart graphics, > WordStar, a database, BASIC, and Flight Simulator as fast as a PDP-11 > for a lot less money, letting the business bootstrap itself > in spite of the ugly excuse for a program loader MS sold for it, > because any developer could afford the $5K (1982) or $2K (1997) box > it takes to develop cool commercially viable applications > (and, yes, you can use a $500 box today, but you wouldn't.) > [....] > > If you must run MSware, NT is at least an operating system. > And it's easier to get graphics board manufacturers to write > their drivers for Windows than Linux. Assuming developers and users of "alternative" systems (including Unix family) are concerned about how MS is consolidating its position as the complete manager of the business/academic affairs of the entire globe, I suggest to the members of the free Unix groups (developers, administrators/superusers) that they develop their own turnkey "office suite" and try to give MS a run for its money. There is no time like now to get the X-Windows (or GUI-free-from-copyright) Complete Office bundled together and have a media gathering to make sure that all the important news organizations are informed. You should get decent press exposure, since MS-bashing seems to be in vogue. The Linux or FreeBSD people should select a mediagenic spokesperson from the group--one with fire in the belly--and then do the hard work of putting something together that a 25-year old free-Unix developer's 72-year old grandmother can install to a x86 box. In fact, your press conference would have real pinache if, in fact, you put someone's 72-year old grandmother before a PC with an empty disk drive, run the install, then type a short letter on the fancy word processer, addressed to Bill G., with the message "Up yours!" By attacking Bill G. from the flank in this matter, you may possibly take his mind off his successful campaign to own the Internet. I admire BillG, really. He was rather late in anticipating how a network developed largely by universities and their students could be a medium that intruded upon the everyday world, and yet despite the efforts of well-meaning individuals and not-for-profit groups to keep the Internet from being owned, Bill G. just has too much savvy not to be able to own the important parts of the Internet too--not the cables and wires, of course, but the content as well as the software that drives it. And soon. (Look for the next version of TCPIP, if it is called that, to be a copyright of Microsoft. After all, Microsoft has its roots in writing OSes.) Mitch Halloran Research (Bio)chemist Duzen Laboratories Group Ankara TURKEY mitch(a)duzen.com.tr other job title: Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy Mitch Halloran Research (Bio)chemist Duzen Laboratories Group Ankara TURKEY mitch(a)duzen.com.tr other job title: Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy

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Re: SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:58:05 -0700 > From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > Subject: Re: SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks (fwd) > >Wrong, the LOC is for the people. It is there (originaly) to provide a > >reference listing of all documents published and therefore claiming copyright. > >Currently it is open to any legitimate research project. I have used it on a > > Any idea on what they define to be a "legitimate" research project? Something related to a project you're working on is my guest guess. I had a clear problem description and goal in mind both times I dealt with them. My experience is that just about any research organization like that simply wants some assurance of legitimacy regarding the use of resources in that institution, they got a bottem line they have to toe. In my various diggings I have *never* been turned away from any reference stack if I could provide them with clear descriptions and goals. Then again, I don't go in raving and ranting and making lot's of demands either... The first time I had reference to them was when I worked for the DoD during college ('80-'83 @ UT) when I had to do some research on a RTL project for Capt. Gene Barton of the US Army. Not that he would necessarily know anything about it. I made the requests for specific information through the engineering library at UT and they contacted both LoC and the Patent Office on prior art. I was designing a non-Von Neumann router from TTL random gates and needed to see how some folks had resolved some similar addressing (very sticky wicket that in regards RTL architectures) issue. The second time was when I was working for Austron here in Austin doing time reference standards (1210's, 2055's, 2000 & 5000 LORAN recievers - it you got one and it was done by triangle-nine it's mine) and needed to do some reference requests for one of the engineers (I unfortunately don't remember his name) into rf propogation models in the 10kHz range because of some problem the US Navy was having off Korea. Past that I don't know as there was some sort of security issue involved. Neither time did it take more than a couple of phone calls (numbers provided for me) and some faxes. I also don't believe that anyone on the other end know anything more about my projects other than the librarian on my end saying something like "I have a user who wants to request ...". YMMV of course. > hate to travel 3000 miles to research the Holocaust Lie, only to be told > that my research on how the Holocaust Lie was sold to support FDR and > Truman is an _illegitimate_ research project. You don't have to travel farther than your local public library. Now whether the librarian wants to spend their time working on your project is a whole 'nother (personal) issue. If you want to know more specifics I suggest you call information in DC and ask for the main number. From there you're on your own. I'm working on a small book proposal & ASL expansion pack regarding the Japanese parachute invasion of Palembang on Feb. 14, 1942 and it's possible I may need to see records there since the US Navy was part of the combined British-Dutch-French-US command in that area. If so, I'll be shure to pass along any experiences that I might have. I certainly hope to arrange an actual trip to Palembang in a couple of years. But I digress... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: FCPUNX:Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendm
by David Magnay 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 19 Dec 97 at 11:58, Jim Burnes wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, David Honig wrote: ... > > > If one ever questions this in public, as Tim did, the liberal response > > is to show that unPC 'discrimination' is possible if humans are free, > > and then the dutiful citizen gladly sacrifices employers' liberty for > > their warm and fuzzy feelings. The first amendment is about what > > government can't do to you, not what your neighbor can or can't do. > > Yeah. The real question is what humans are free to do. The freedom > to do something is also the freedom *not* to do something. The > freedom to conduct a transaction (employing someone) must also be > the freedom not to conduct that transaction because the transaction > is voluntary. > Who said humans are free ? Which page is that written on ? Ooops, lost my copy. Your version must be wrong. Probably a spelling error. The _real_ question is HOW to determine what humans are free to do. Without a common acceptance of right, wrong and definition of freedom, it only comes from the sharp end of a gun. Just having a cosy chinwag in Congress, the UN or the European Parliament and agreeing on a code of conduct is not enuf if it is not accepted by the active parties. Many people sqeal about rights (and wrongs) but they are only right or wrong by some measure. If your enemy has a different measure, or refuses to accept your right/wrong criteria, you are stuffed. For some people, that measure is the US Constitution, for others the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc. However, all of these are only ARBITRARY agreements on commonly accepted points of view. If I disagree, they are absolutely worthless. So, but unless you stop me, I'll play by MY set of rules. If I want Kuwait, I'll take it. If I want Grenada, Chekoslovakia, Afghanistan or the Marshall Islands, I'll just take it. If I want to tap your phone, monitor your Bank account or stamp your licence with 666, I'll do it Oh buts that wrong, u cant do that. Well, who says I cant. You ?? Laugh..laugh..laugh. Where does it say that. Did God tell you ? Prove it then. No, well POQ. So if we have a Government OF the people, BY the poeple, FOR the people, we may have a chance of getting somewhere. (Oh well, we can always hope) DM --------------------------- David Magnay email: sdh(a)crafti.com.au ---------------------------

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Coercive Monopolism vs Wimpyness
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>And, since Windows OS is so pitifully lousy, why do people continue to buy >it, even without the computer attached; why do they continue to upgrade, >even if it's so slow and bloated? Don't they realize Unix is better? >Don't they realize they're just making Billg richer? I use Linux primarily. People still buy Winblows for the same reasons I bought Winblows 95. Want to play a game from the store? Windows 95. Want to install a new image in your Flash RAM on your motherboard? DOS (Windows 95). Want to have vendor-produced drivers? Windows 95. Want to parse MS Turd documents? Windows 95 and MS Office. Want to use a Windows-specific bullshit class registration system at your university? Windows 95. Want to run that program your mother sends you and wants you to run? She uses Windows 95 because it was preinstalled on her machine, so you must use Windows 95 too. Some kind of bizarre hardware which the manufactuers won't release specs for? (The AWE32 is a good example. Eventually somebody got pissed and reverse engineered it.) Windows 95. Happened to buy a printer? It won't say "Yes! It works with Ghostscript!" In fact it won't say anything about hardware compatability. It'll just say "Windows drivers included" along with a list of a bunch of software that I don't want and don't need. So if it happens that the printer is nonstandard...Windows 95. Have a bunch of people in the office who don't care about platform compatability and pass around Windows-specific document types or programs? Windows 95. Have a bunch of people in the office who, simply because Windows and sometimes MacOS are taught as "computer education" in many universities and public schools can't use anything else? Windows 95. Have to use a university computer lab? The machines are probably running Windows 95. So you wind up with an incentive to use Windows 95 elsewhere. So...again, Windows 95. Want to have a working copy of PGP 5.0 while everybody else has started sending out DH-encrypted/signed messages and rolled DH keys? Windows 95. (Yeah, yeah. The source was released in book form.) This goes on and on and on. Sure there are counter arguments for these but it gets real touchy real quick. Ever try to pressure a game company into releasing Linux versions? Ever try to pressure an applications company to release Linux versions? Explanation and analysis: Microsoft spends millions on marketting. Linux, BSD, et al. simply don't have a massive marketting machine. The PC rags and TV shows like CNet are supported by Windows applications, Windows games, Microsoft, and platform-specific web sites. Microsoft has no qualms about outright lying in its marketting material. Look at the messages which display during Windows 95 installation for a good example. "What you want to do, and more, is now possible." Yeah. What if I want to have a decent telnet client? What if I want to have tons of free software? They don't qualify the statement, yet the Microsoft lackies think that Microsoft would never lie and it must be true. The Windows interface is "point and drool." This has the effect of attracting every lazy person possible. I say "lazy" because it's basically no work to remember "rm" rather than "left click and drag to the recycle bin." These people don't know how *anything* works on even the most basic level. The Linux/BSD/whatever developers aren't going to make an interface like that because they're competent, aren't trying to make money, don't want to cripple their platform with it, and they don't necessarily want to attract these people. Generally speaking, as "da web" has proven, if it takes no brains to use something people with no brain will be attracted to it in great numbers. Microsoft, their friends, and some of their enemies did everything they possibly could to break the web. HTML was designed as a relatively simple, platform independant method of storing information. The idea was that you could go throw in an image, but it was supposed to *augment* the message, not *be* the message. And regardless of what you did the page was supposed to be viewable from a text terminal. Netscape started by adding non-standard extensions to HTML, in effect encouraging people to make Netscape-specific web pages. Netscape Gold and other "web page designers" encourage people to release platform-specific web pages -- they *should* throw an error if somebody puts in an unnamed link. Then of course we had stuff like server-side image maps. And we have pages with frames which are impossible to correctly display in a text mode, and which bitch and moan and suggest you download Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator/Communicator to read it. And I've seen pages which are nothing but graphics files -- but hey, they're okay because they display correctly in MSIE or Netscape. Microsoft continues its little jihad by perverting Java, which is supposed to be another platform-independant language, into a Windows-specific language. While they were at it both Microsoft and Netscape decided to start slinging HTML and nonstandard MIME types all over email and news postings. When you buy a prebuilt computer in most cases you don't have a choice. You have to get Windows 95, MSIE, and whatever other crap they decide to pile on. Normally this wouldn't be a problem and you would just go to another vendor but just about every single vendor is like this. When you buy hardware you pay for all sorts of Windows software. So now you have all kinds of (bad) Windows software, so there's another reason to use Windows. Microsoft knows this. For example, when you buy a scanner you get Windows software for it, absolutely no design specs, no compatability list, and in many cases they flat-out *won't* release design specs. When you call for technical support many (most?) places tell you to do something like this: "Okay. Go click on the 'My Computer' icon--" "Uh, I run Linux." "Uh, we don't support that." (Hint: It was a *hardware* problem, *not* a software problem, but go boot up into Windows just so we know it was broken. Oh, and you better have the latest version because that's all we support.) Many vendors only release drivers for whatever the latest and greatest version of Winblows is going to be. Windows 3.1 drivers are starting to get scarce. DOS drivers are basically nonexistant. Say, for instance, you purchase or receive Windows NT Workstation 4.0. You then go out and buy an AWE64. Creative Labs has stated that they aren't releasing a decent AWE64 driver for NT 4.0, but instead are targetting it at NT 5.0. Compare this with the UNIX world where, for the most part, things are platform independant and people like platform compatability. Most of the time I can run something on Linux which I can run on BSD which I can run on SunOS, etc.

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By January 13th, I had received 26 orders for REPORT #1. When you read the GUARANTEE in the program, you will see that "YOU MUST RECEIVE 20 ORDERS FOR REPORT #1 WITHIN TWO WEEKS. IF YOU DON'T, SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO!" My first step in making $50,000 in 90 days was done. By January 30th, I had received 196 orders for REPORT #2. If you go back to the GUARANTEE, "YOU MUST RECEIVE 100 OR MORE ORDERS FOR REPORT #2 WITHIN TWO WEEKS. IF NOT, SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO. ONCE YOU HAVE 100 ORDERS, THE REST IS EASY, RELAX, YOU WILL MAKE YOUR $50,000 GOAL." Well, I had 196 orders for REPORT #2, 96 more than I needed. So I sat back and relaxed. By March 19th, of my emailing of 10,000 packets, I received $58,000 with more coming in every day. I paid off ALL my debts and bought a much needed new car. Please take time to read the attached program, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER! Remember, it wont work if you don't try it. This program does work, but you must follow it EXACTLY! 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Of course, I had no idea who to contact to get a copy, so I had to wait until I was emailed another copy of the program. Eleven months passed, then it came. I DIDN'T throw this one away. I made $41,000 on the first try." Dawn W., Evansville, IN "NO FREE LUNCH" "My late father always told me, 'remember, Alan, there is no free lunch in life. You get out of life what you put into it.' Through trial and error and a somewhat slow frustrating start, I finally figured it out. The program works very well, I just had to find the right target group of people to email it to. So far this year, I have made over $63,000 using this program. I know my dad would have been very proud of me." Alan B., Philadelphia, PA A PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS PROGRAM By the time you have read the enclosed information and looked over the enclosed program and reports, you should have concluded that such a program, and one that is legal, could not have been created by an amateur. Let me tell you a little about myself. I had a profitable business for ten years. Then in 1979 my business began falling off. I was doing the same things that were previously successful for me, but it wasn't working. Finally, I figured it out. It wasn't me, it was the economy. Inflation and recession had replaced the stable economy that had been with us since 1945. I don't have to tell you what happened to the unemployment rate...because many of you know from first hand experience. There were more failures and bankruptcies than ever before. The middle class was vanishing. Those who knew what they were doing invested wisely and moved up. Those who did not, including those who never had anything to save or invest, were moving down into the ranks of the poor. As the saying goes, "THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER." The traditional methods of making money will never allow you to "move up" or "get rich", inflation will see to that. You have just received information that can give you financial freedom for the rest of your life, with "NO RISK" and "JUST A LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT." You can make more money in the next few months than you have ever imagined. I should also point out that I will not see a penny of your money, nor anyone else who has provided a testimonial for this program. I have already made over FOUR MILLION DOLLARS! I have retired from the program after sending out over 16,000 programs. Now I have several offices which market this and several other programs here in the US and overseas. By the Spring, we wish to market the 'Internet' by a partnership with AMERICA ON LINE. Follow the program EXACTLY AS INSTRUCTED. Do not change it in any way. It works exceedingly well as it is now. Remember to email a copy of this exciting program to everyone that you can think of. One of the people you send this to may send out 50,000...and your name will be on every one of them!. Remember though, the more you send out, the more potential customers you will reach. So my friend, I have given you the ideas, information, materials and opportunity to become financially independent, IT IS UP TO YOU NOW! "THINK ABOUT IT" Before you delete this program from your mailbox, as I almost did, take a little time to read it and REALLY THINK ABOUT IT. Get a pencil and figure out what could happen when YOU participate. Figure out the worst possible response and no matter how you calculate it, you will still make a lot of money! Definitely get back what you invested. Any doubts you have will vanish when your first orders come in. IT WORKS! Paul Johnson, Raleigh, NC HERE'S HOW THIS AMAZING PROGRAM WILL MAKE YOU $$$$$$ Let's say that you decide to start small, just to see how it goes, and we'll assume you and all those involved send out 20,000 programs each. Let's also assume that the mailing receives a .5% response. Using a good list the response could be much better. Also many people will send out hundreds of thousands of programs instead of 20,000. But continuing with this example, you send out only 20,000 programs. With a .5% response, that is only 10 orders for REPORT #1. Those 10 people respond by sending out 20,000 programs each for a total of 200,000. Out of those .5%, 100 people respond and order REPORT #2. Those 100 mail out 20,000 programs each for a total of 2000,000. The .5% response to that is 1,000 orders for REPORT #3. Those 1,000 send out 20,000 programs each for a 2,000,000 total. The .5% response to that is 10,000 orders for REPORT #4. That's 10,000 five dollar bills for you. CASH!!!! Your total income in this example is $50 + $500 + $5000 + $50,000 for a total of $55,550!!!! REMEMBER FRIEND, THIS IS ASSUMING 1,990 OUT OF 2,000 PEOPLE YOU MAIL TO WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... AND TRASH THIS PROGRAM! DARE TO THINK FOR A MOMENT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYONE OR HALF SENT OUT 100,000 PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF ONLY 2,000. Believe me, many people will do that and more! By the way, your cost to participate in this is practically nothing. You obviously already have an internet connection and email is FREE!!! REPORT#3 will show you the best methods for bulk emailing and purchasing email lists. THIS IS A LEGITIMATE,NOW VERY LEGAL, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITY. It does not require you to come in contact with people, do any hard work, and best of all, you never have to leave the house except to get the mail. If you believe that someday you'll get that big break that you've been waiting for, THIS IS IT! Simply follow the instructions, and your dream will come true. This multi-level email order marketing program works perfectly...100% EVERY TIME. Email is the sales tool of the future. Take advantage of this non-commercialized method of advertising NOW!! The longer you wait, the more people will be doing business using email. Get your piece of this action!! MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING (MLM) has finally gained respectability. It is being taught in the Harvard Business School, and both Stanford Research and The Wall Street Journal have stated that between 50% and 65% of all goods and services will be sold throughout Multi-level Methods by the mid to late 1990's. This is a Multi-Billion Dollar industry and of the 500,000 millionaires in the US, 20% (100,000) made their fortune in the last several years in MLM. Moreover, statistics show 45 people become millionaires everyday through Multi-Level Marketing. INSTRUCTIONS We at Erris Mail Order Marketing Business, have a method of raising capital that REALLY WORKS 100% EVERY TIME. I am sure that you could use $50,000 to $125,000 in the next 90 days. Before you say "Bull", please read the program carefully. This is not a chain letter, but a NOW perfectly legal money making opportunity. Basically, this is what we do: As with all multi-level business, we build our business by recruiting new partners and selling our products. Every state in the USA allows you to recruit new multi- level business partners, and we offer a product for EVERY dollar sent. YOUR ORDERS COME AND ARE FILLED THROUGH THE MAIL, so you are not involved in personal selling. You do it privately in your own home, store or office. This is the GREATEST Multi-level Mail Order Marketing anywhere: Step (1) Order all four 4 REPORTS listed by NAME AND NUMBER. Do this by ordering the REPORT from each of the four 4 names listed on the next page. For each REPORT, send $5 CASH and a SELF- ADDRESSED, STAMPED envelope (BUSINESS SIZE #10) to the person listed for the SPECIFIC REPORT. International orders should also include $2 extra for postage. It is essential that you specify the NAME and NUMBER of the report requested to the person you are ordering from. You will need ALL FOUR 4 REPORTS because you will be REPRINTING and RESELLING them. DO NOT alter the names or sequence other than what the instructions say. IMPORTANT: Always provide same-day service on all orders. Step (2) Replace the name and address under REPORT #1 with yours, moving the one that was there down to REPORT #2. Drop the name and address under REPORT #2 to REPORT #3, moving the one that was there to REPORT #4. The name and address that was under REPORT #4 is dropped from the list and this party is no doubt on the way to the bank. When doing this, make certain you type the names and addresses ACCURATELY! DO NOT MIX UP MOVING PRODUCT/REPORT POSITIONS!!! Step (3) Having made the required changes in the NAME list, save it as a text (.txt) file in it's own directory to be used with whatever email program you like. Again, REPORT #3 will tell you the best methods of bulk emailing and acquiring email lists. Step (4) Email a copy of the entire program (all of this is very important) to everyone whose address you can get your hands on. Start with friends and relatives since you can encourage them to take advantage of this fabulous money-making opportunity. That's what I did. And they love me now, more than ever. Then, email to anyone and everyone! Use your imagination! You can get email addresses from companies on the internet who specialize in email mailing lists. These are very cheap, 100,000 addresses for around $35.00. IMPORTANT: You won't get a good response if you use an old list, so always request a FRESH, NEW list. You will find out where to purchase these lists when you order the four 4 REPORTS. ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON ALL ORDERS!!! REQUIRED REPORTS ***Order each REPORT by NUMBER and NAME*** ALWAYS SEND A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE AND $5 USD CASH FOR EACH ORDER REQUESTING THE SPECIFIC REPORT BY NAME AND NUMBER (International orders should also include $2 USD extra for postage) Add your e amil address when sending in for your report this is for updated information and continueing support (optional) that will be handed down by your sponcers pipeline. ______________________________________________________ REPORT #1 "HOW TO MAKE $250,000 THROUGH MULTI-LEVEL SALES" ORDER REPORT #1 FROM: A. Siegmund #57 Trakehnenstr. 13 53332 Bornheim, Germany ______________________________________________________ REPORT #2 "MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND MULTI-LEVEL SALES" J. Maze 15774 S. Lagrange Rd Suite #312 Orland Pk, IL 60462 USA ________________________________________________________ REPORT#3 "SOURCES FOR THE BEST MAILING LISTS" ORDER REPORT #3 FROM: B. Thompson 13504 Greencaslte ridge Tr. 404 Burtonsville MD. 20866 USA ______________________________________________________ REPORT #4 "EVALUATING MULTI-LEVEL SALES PLANS" ORDER REPORT #4 FROM: MUW #2 PO BOX 71442 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84171-0442 USA ______________________________________________________ CONCLUSION One of your free web sites can be registered at http://www.freeyellow.com/ .I am enjoying my fortune that I made by sending out this program. You too, will be making money in 20 to 90 days, if you follow the SIMPLE STEPS outlined in this mailing. To be financially independent is to be FREE. Free to make financial decisions as never before. Go into business, get into investments, retire or take a vacation. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <ziaza99(a)sh.hit.no> Received: from relay01.mail.aol.com (relay01.mail.aol.com [172.31.106.125]) by air21.mail.aol.com (v37.8) with SMTP; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:34:39 -0500 Received: from bonaly.hw.ac.uk (bonaly.hw.ac.uk [137.195.151.5]) by relay01.mail.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id MAA09338; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:29:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:29:50 -0500 (EST) From: ziaza99(a)sh.hit.no Received: from 007 (sdn-ts-047mdrelRP11.dialsprint.net) by bonaly.hw.ac.uk (MX V4.2 AXP) with SMTP; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:29:48 +0000 (GMT) To: ziaza99(a)sh.hit.no Comments: Authenticated sender is <ziaza99(a)sh.hit.no> Subject:free web site Message-ID: <19971222246ZAA24605(a)theman.hw.ac.uk> -

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