From i6t4 at jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca Wed Jul 7 22:12:09 1993 From: i6t4 at jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Nickey MacDonald) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 22:12:09 PDT Subject: What do you make of this? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 at jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger i6t4 at unb.ca | (506) 457-1931 ^{1024/746EBB 1993/02/23}