On Wed, 7 Jul 1993, Mike Sherwood wrote:

I dont know about all of them, but the second one is near me and I confirmed that there is no 244 prefix in the 510 area code, so either ther is an error in that data, or should I venture so far as to say that he's trying to make a point about hiding information in a seemingly harmless format.

I hope no one actually trys to call any of those numbers... I couldn't think of a way to list them without giving away the truth... You are correct, I was trying to make a point of hiding information in a seemingly harmless format (although the longer the message, the less harmless the format looks)...

I don't have the desire to actually try to find out what it is, but it wouldnt take much more research to find out if the list is primarily made of nonexistent numbers.

Well... I'll increase your chances to figure it out, should you get the desire... The hidden text was Un*x compressed...

However, the only reason I even looked that far is because of the nature of this group and the fact that it was brought up as such, rather than "Local U.S. Department of Agriculture offices" or some other title that would cause people to want to be as far away from it as possible.

I had hoped that someone would assume there was a message... I'm still hoping someone will find it... I'll release the source either way... :-) -- Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger i6t4@unb.ca | (506) 457-1931 ^{1024/746EBB 1993/02/23}