From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #287 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, December 17 1997 Volume 02 : Number 287 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Alloy Picks Tapes [crackers@hwcn.org] Re: Alloy: DIBBS [crackers@hwcn.org] Re: Alloy: She Blinded Me with That Freaky Dancing Baby .avi [Brian Clayt] Alloy: Tape and the_copse news [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com>] Alloy: Copy of: The Big Music Exchange (proposed) [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@] Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@comp] Re: Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning [Lem Bingley ] Re: Alloy: She Blinded Me with That Freaky Dancing Baby .avi [MsSakamoto ] Alloy: Dancing Babies Blinded By Science - Film At 11! [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Dancing Babies Sworn at By Cartman and Jesus -- Film at 11! [M] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 03:13:54 -0500 (EST) From: crackers@hwcn.org Subject: Alloy: Alloy Picks Tapes Well, I've finished putting together my 90 minute tape of assorted music I listen to (or in the case of the B-side of the tape, assorted tracks I've played on). Now what do I do with it? CRACKERS (Hope you all like zydeco music from hell!!) - -- Accordionist - Wethifl Musician - Atari 2600 Collector | /\/\ *NEW CrAB URL* http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html ***| \^^/ Bira Bira Devotee - FES Member - Samurai Pizza Cats Fan| =\/= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 03:13:49 -0500 (EST) From: crackers@hwcn.org Subject: Re: Alloy: DIBBS In article <199712150232_MC2-2BFC-D6A8@compuserve.com>, you wrote: >Crackers wrote (for the 6.02 x 10^23rd time): > > > Dibbs > >Now Crackers me lad, don't you realize you are, "Poisoning the minds of our >young people today?" Forgive the nit-pick, but by any dictionary I've seen >the word is "Dibs", slang, probably from the obsolete "dib": to tap. Of >course, this could be some kind of Canadian thing, eh? ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ It's an anacronym... "D.olby I.nspired B.irthday B.allads and S.ongs" CRACKERS (Reaching for it from hell!!) - -- Accordionist - Wethifl Musician - Atari 2600 Collector | /\/\ *NEW CrAB URL* http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html ***| \^^/ Bira Bira Devotee - FES Member - Samurai Pizza Cats Fan| =\/= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 08:45:38 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: She Blinded Me with That Freaky Dancing Baby .avi On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Melissa Jordan wrote: > Someone just sent me that freaky little .avi file of the dancing baby (it's > been making the "bored office worker sends e-mail to everyone he knows" > circuit for some time now, apparently.) There's another .avi floating around that pokes fun at the dancing baby...it's a swaggering, drunken baby. Perverse, but funny. > Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Happy Fun Ball can cause cancer in laboratory animals. BC - --- Brian Clayton "It was very witty, but it wasn't my wittiness." stemish@kumr.lns.com -- Kurt Vonnegut ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:38:13 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: Tape and the_copse news CRACKERS Hold fire until after Christmas, when I'll send you a list of addresses t= o send them to, and everyone else will get your address (participants only = of course) and whack them in the post - internationals on about the 10th, an= d inlands on about the 15th, so they arrive kind of together and we'll all have a veritable feast of listening pleasure! Of course, we'll want detailes sleeve notes explaining, in everyone's individual style, why you like what you've chosen, or in CRACKERS' case, who and what it is. Looking forward to it! - -------------------- On a seperate note, there may be some administrative problems with the project. Just today I got a mega-cool job with mondo software firm JBA an= d I'll be spending the first two months of next year in Manchester, where I= won't have access to my own e-mail account. Thinking on the spot, I recko= n if we can bring the Dibbs deadline forward to December the 31st there shouldn't be any problems. I'll forward addresses on that date, and then anyone else who wants to join in after the fact can request a list from someone who's already in. There - if I'd demonstrated my problem-solving abilities like that before I could have had a job months ago!! I get move= d to Birmingham in February, and I'll then be able to set up my stuff again= =2E In the meantime of course, although I'll be off-list, I'll be able to wri= te intermittently, and will of course take everyone's tapes with me to cheer= me up while living (garrgh) in a hotel. Am I being a bit miserable? Hmm I= shouldn't be as this job really is awesome! Anyway, thanks for everyone who's mailed me today - messages received and= understood! the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:38:10 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: Copy of: The Big Music Exchange (proposed) Hey dudes, Paul suggested I repost the basic idea of the MusExch again, s= o here we go!! - ------------------------------------------ OK, I had this great idea last night - it might be crazy, but see what yo= u think. = You know how when you turn the radio on and everything there is completel= y pathetic, and then you look in your tape collection, and everything there= is really great, but most of it is like five or ten years old? Well I thought in order for us to find out great new sources of music for= ourselves to listen to, we ought to use each other! Here's what I propose= =2E Anyone who wants to participate puts together a C90 of their favourite songs, no matter how weird and obscure, and sends it out to everyone else= who is willing to send them a copy of their C90. You don't have to send i= t to everyone, although you can if you want, and everyone who receives your= tape sends you a copy of theirs. Included with the tapes might be a lette= r giving a tiny background on each band/singer/composer, the names of their= best album, in case you hear something you really like, and more importantly, the from-the-heart reasons you like it so much!! I don't think it'll be too expensive, as for every tape you send you'll g= et one in return, but then I'm fairly used to sending loads of tapes in the post, and others might not fancy it...... Anyway, it's just an idea - I'm off to start my tape now! = One more idea, maybe all tapes should start with the compiler's most obscure Dolby track - I could contribute the classic 'Get Out Of My Mix' = or the excellent vocal-free versions of 'EasternBloc' and ILYG. Here's hoping for El Grando Responso! Deadline for DIbbs - 31st Dec Inland Tape posting - 15th Jan International tapes posting - 10th Jan Big receiving day party - 20th Jan the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:38:19 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: INTERNET:James_Hull.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk, INTERNET= :James_Hull.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk TO: (unknown), INTERNET:jonathan.williamson@btinternet.com (unknown), INTERNET:anna_stuart@hotmail.com (unknown), INTERNET:Phil@phlip.clara.net (unknown), INTERNET:Chris_Holliday@virgin-direct.co.uk (unknown), INTERNET:se95ah@dmu.ac.uk (unknown), INTERNET:al@no-18.demon.co.uk (unknown), INTERNET:GUI_Team.JBA_Manchester.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.= jba.co.uk (unknown), INTERNET:robert.gould@btinternet.com (unknown), INTERNET:steve@creighton.clara.net (unknown), INTERNET:david.bannister@insight-logistics.co.uk (unknown), INTERNET:All_Leeds_Users.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.u= k (unknown), [113203,2623] DATE: 16/12/97 15:14 RE: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning Sender: James_Hull.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk Received: from gold.jba.co.uk (gold.jba.co.uk [193.131.80.1]) by arl-img-4.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.9) with SMTP id KAA16494 for <113203.2623@compuserve.com>; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:10:42 -0500 (EST) From: James_Hull.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk Received: from studley.jba.co.uk by gold.jba.co.uk (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03= ) id AA11268; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:53:16 GMT Received: by splmta.jbaintl.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id= 8025656F.00534BCA ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:09:48 +0000 X-Lotus-Fromdomain: JBA LEEDS @ SPL EXTERNAL@JBA To: All_Leeds_Users.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk, david.bannister@insight-logistics.co.uk, steve@creighton.clara.ne= t, 113203.2623@compuserve.com, robert.gould@btinternet.com, GUI_Team.JBA_Manchester.JBA_LEEDS.SPL_EXTERNAL@gold.jba.co.uk, al@no-18.demon.co.uk, se95ah@dmu.ac.uk, Chris_Holliday@virgin-direct.co.uk, Phil@phlip.clara.net, anna_stuart@hotmail.com, jonathan.williamson@btinternet.com Message-Id: <8025656F.00511F33.00@splmta.jbaintl.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:49:34 +0000 Subject: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUS-ASCII - - >---------- >From: Georgina King >Sent: 15 December 1997 14:16 >To: Everyone Stratford >Subject: FW: Virus warning > >Please read the attached very carefully !!! > >---------- >From: Nick Dusanj >Sent: Monday, December 15, 1997 1:55 PM >To: Marina Stilianou; Ian Lewis; Ian Jones >Cc: ServiceDesk - Stratford >Subject: FW: Virus warning > >fyi > >---------- >From: Christophe Gesqueire >Sent: Monday, December 15, 1997 10:36 AM >To: SITEL Belgium; Andy Hall; Nick Dusanj; Ian Gunn; Theodor Konst;= Klaus >Juttermann >Subject: Virus warning > >WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING >If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW", DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT open >it!!! >It will erase everything on your hard drive!!! >Forward this letter out to as many people as you can... this is a new, very >malicious virus, and not many people know about it!!! This information w= as >recieved from IBM; please share it with everyone that might access the >Internet. > >Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE on your address book so that thi= s may >be stopped. > >Also, DO NOT open or even look at any mail that says, "RETURNED OR UNABL= E >TODELIVER" This virus will attach itself to your computer components and= >render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AO= L has >said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for= it >at this time. Please practise cautionary measures and forward this to al= l >your online friends >ASAP!!! > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:36:30 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Re: Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning Tim innocently forwarded: >> >>WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING >>If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW", DO NOT, The phrase 'Good Times' springs to mind. The above warning is almost certainly a waste of time and you'd needn't give it another moment's thought. It's a repeat of a similar scare story that circulated a couple of years back, only the message then was supposed to have the subject 'Good Times'. There's no way that an email message can trash your hard disk unless there's an executable attachment and you're foolish enough to run the attachment. No mailer that I know of can be set up to automatically run the attachment for precisely this reason. The point of these stupid things is that the message itself *is* the virus. It achieves the same goals as a real virus - it wastes machine resources and people's time. A meme virus, I guess you could call it. Anyway, rant over. Lem. PS. Congratulations on your appointment at JBA, Tim, I hope it works out. PPS. Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:58:17 -0500 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: She Blinded Me with That Freaky Dancing Baby .avi At 08:45 AM 12/16/97 -0800, Brian wrote: > >There's another .avi floating around that pokes fun at the dancing >baby...it's a swaggering, drunken baby. Perverse, but funny. You're right - it is perverse! I just did a web search for "drunk dancing baby .avi" and - voila! - there it was. Amazing. I don't think "Drunk Baby" is suitable for any Dolby background tuneage, but, perhaps I can run this one with some Tom Waits in the background, and it'll work well... >> Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. > >Happy Fun Ball can cause cancer in laboratory animals. > If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Ahh... oh, for the days when Saturday Night Live was even MARGINALLY funny... Cheers, Melissa (Dancing) Baby is a Failed, Middle-aged Jazz Musician (and if you get that one, I'll buy you a cup of coffee!) Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:15:28 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning Dear Lem Sorry!!!!!! I should learn to take things with a pinch of salt - but in my remission = it was sent to me by someone from JBA so I guess that lets me off the hook just a little - I'm quite prone to taking things on authority when it com= es to bleepy boxes. By the way Lem, I've been meaning to ask you about Computerwire. My frien= d tells me that it's kind of like an electronic 'Private Eye.' Is this so? That would be really cool. Anyway, when you have a vacancy, let me know, = as this friend is a fantastic writer and also is well up on bleeps, as he works for Integrated Solutions Limited. I remember you were looking for a= sub-editor or something a while back. Anyway, I shall let my friend at JBA know what you think - I am only one = of loads of people he sent it to, so the virus effect is probably going on right now! Also, can you mail me off-list if you know any juicy gossip about JBA, or= just if you have any particular opinion of their set-up/product etc.? Cheers the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 12:54:50 MST From: "Dan Swan" Subject: Re: Alloy: READ ME - URGENT!!!!!!!! Virus Warning Tim Dunn said: - -> - ->> - ->>WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING - ->>If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW", DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT Tim, the only virus is the one you've just mailed out to scores, and encouraged them to forward. This definitely makes you look like a sucker, and possibly makes you a father. So no to become a surrogate virus father... Don't forward that garbage. - -> ............................................................................. "And if you want to Swan, one to one... kid, we don't need a pond." -Prefab Sprout *The above represents the absolute truth, and thus it is impossible for it to be the opinion of either the university, or my employer.* ............................................................................. - - Resources are finite. Population growth is exponential. You do the math. - - Replies to: dswan1@freenet.calgary.ab.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Email Virus Education, Part 2 This was posted some time ago to Usenet (news.announce.important). Good pointers to web pages describing hoax viruses (virii?) and viruses in general. - -- news.announce.important (moderated) #76 (0 + 0 more) [1] From: mark@lucent.com [1] e-mail virus rumor is a hoax Date: Thu Apr 17 13:50:28 PDT 1997 Organization: Lucent Technologies, Columbus, Ohio Lines: 23 There has been a sudden increase in warnings about hoax viruses, such as AOL4FREE, PenPal Greetings, Deeyenda, Irina, and Good Times. Hoax viruses usually claim to infect your PC just by reading an email message. There is no known mechanism for a virus to infect your system in this way. If you receive an e-mail message warning of a disk being erased just by reading an e-mail message, please DO NOT PASS IT ON. The spread of the rumors has become a serious problem on the Internet. More information about hoax viruses is available at the following URLs: http://kumite.com/myths http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.html http://www.drsolomon.com/vircen/mailhoax.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ However, you CAN get a virus by reading an attachment in an email message, such as an MS Word or Excel document, which is infected by a macro virus. You can also get a virus by running an executable program (such as *.exe or *.com) someone e-mails you as an attachment. A tiny program called AOL4FREE.COM has been found, apparently written to copycat the hoax virus. Do not run this program or click on it as an attachment. You can safeguard your computer by installing reputable Anti-Virus software (McAfee, Dr. Solomon's, and Symantec are just three examples). [end quote] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:17:02 EST From: MsSakamoto Subject: Re: Alloy: She Blinded Me with That Freaky Dancing Baby .avi In a message dated 97-12-16 12:16:18 EST, stemish@kumr.lns.com writes: > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Melissa Jordan wrote: > > > Someone just sent me that freaky little .avi file of the dancing baby (it' > s > > been making the "bored office worker sends e-mail to everyone he knows" > > circuit for some time now, apparently.) > > There's another .avi floating around that pokes fun at the dancing > baby...it's a swaggering, drunken baby. Perverse, but funny. I feel as if I am truly missing out on something. - --Suzanne-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:11:25 -0500 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Dancing Babies Blinded By Science - Film At 11! At 04:17 PM 12/16/97 EST, Suzanne wrote: re: .avi's of dancing babies, carniverous snowmen, severely underage drinkers... >I feel as if I am truly missing out on something. Fear not, Ms. Sakamoto! Truly, you have missed out on nothing spectacular. Very, very silly things! But, if you'd like to see 'em, zap me a line, and I'll forward the baby and the snowman (wasn't that a movie with Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton? :-) ) to your account. Cheers, Melissa P.S. I do recommend (if you can handle cartoon children swearing like sailors and a wee bit of seasonal blasphemy) viewing the original South Park "Spirit of Christmas" cartoon (in streaming Real Video) at the Comedy Central website. Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:20:54 EST From: RThurF Subject: Alloy: Snowman.avi, Happy Fun Ball What is Happy Fun Ball?? I'm afraid .avi's seem to be just too much for our poor Lassie to handle. We shall have to wait till we get our new computer *sigh* Robin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:03:34 EST From: MsSakamoto Subject: Re: Alloy: Dancing Babies Sworn at By Cartman and Jesus -- Film at 11! In a message dated 97-12-16 18:06:02 EST, mjordan@goodwill.org writes: > Fear not, Ms. Sakamoto! Truly, you have missed out on nothing spectacular. > Very, very silly things! But, if you'd like to see 'em, zap me a line, > and I'll forward the baby and the snowman (wasn't that a movie with Sean > Penn and Timothy Hutton? :-) ) to your account. Oh, that'd be great! (I can't believe that I'm getting excited over this! It must be the holidays and the fact that I just got a new roommate--I'm kind of easily amused right now! ;-) ) > P.S. I do recommend (if you can handle cartoon children swearing like > sailors and a wee bit of seasonal blasphemy) viewing the original South > Park "Spirit of Christmas" cartoon (in streaming Real Video) at the Comedy > Central website. Oh, I need to do that sometime, thanks for reminding me...I read the script from it...I especially loved them singing the dreidle (spelling isn't my strong suit) song at the end! - --Suzanne-- ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #287 ***************************