It seems our old friend is up to his stupid tricks again. After his drivel began appearing on various newsgroups, I stated logging messages, and found this...

From vkj@netcom.com Fri Jul 15 11:20:35 1994 Received: from TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (tigger.StCloud.MSUS.EDU [134.29.33.14]) by kaiwan.kaiwan.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA12671 for <ghio@kaiwan.com>; Fri, 15 Jul 1994 11:20:34 -0700 *** KAIWAN Internet Access *** Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 11:20:34 -0700 From: vkj@netcom.com Message-Id: <199407151820.LAA12671@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> Received: from <netcom6.netcom.com> (netcom4.netcom.com) by TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:22:01 CST To: ghio@kaiwan.com Errors-To: /dev/null Request-Remailing-To: mail2news@demon.co.uk

## Subject: ATTENTION: OPERATION `BIG COLLISION' WILL COMMENCE SHORTLY Organization: CRAM Newsgroups: alt.current.net-abuse,news.misc,news.admin.policy,alt.politics.datahighway,alt.culture.usenet,alt.culture.internet,alt.censorship,talk.politics.crypto

To Whom It May Concern:

We will shortly be commencing operation Big Collision. During this period you may experience minor fluctuations and disturbances in multitudinous channels over the cyberspatial continuum. This will be the first of our larger scale meme construction, fabrication, and penetration projects.

We assure you that these operations will help maximize overall communications efficiency in the Matrix and invigorate and energize the advancement of unhindered meme propagation within the lower-vibratory realms, as well as to relieve some tensions by combatting recent degradory eruptions. Emphasis and urgency will be focused on the most drained and threatened areas.

Please exercise the utmost caution in your personal meme possession and conveyance during this period of transition. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | / / / / / / / / / / _______ ________ _____ _____ _____ /// \\\ ||| \\\ /// \\\ |||\\\///||| ||| ~~ ||| /// ||| ||| ||| \\// ||| ||| __ |||~~~\\\ |||~~~||| ||| ~~ ||| \\\ /// ||| \\\ ||| ||| ||| ||| ~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ / / / / / / / / / | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \

C y b e r s p a t i a l R e a l i t y A d v a n c e m e n t M o v e m e n t

Looks like he figured out how to use port 25... And look who wasn't logged in...

% finger vkj@netcom.com [netcom.com]

V K Jayakumar (vkj) Home: /u4/vkj Shell: /bin/csh No unread mail. V K Jayakumar (vkj) is not presently logged in. Last seen at netcom8 on Thu Jul 14 22:09:39 1994

No plan.

And detweiler...

% finger tmp@netcom.com [netcom.com]

(tmp) Home: /u3/tmp Shell: /bin/csh No unread mail. Last login on ttypc from NETCOM-den2.netc, on Thu Jun 30 17:40:37 1994

No plan.

Has he really been logged in for 15 days? Please CC me in any responses, as I haven't had much time to keep up with the cypherpunks list lately... :(