ATLANTISv2 atl-players-digest #42 From: csd@microplex.com (Christian Daudt) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000 This file was automatically generated by csd@microplex.com If you notice anything unusual, please e-tell me. You better not kill Faction 9 or this service may be discontinued.:-) Contributions in Silver will be gladly accepted. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Apr 1995 11:27:55 -0700 From: "Mike Hughes" <Mike_Hughes@smtp.svl.trw.com> Subject: Re: ATLANTIS January... Reply to: RE>>ATLANTIS January... -------------------------------------- From: GDUNBAR.US.ORACLE.COM (cut) I'm just going to continue with the game as it is now; next month will be March. The reason for this is that I don't want to send out a whole bunch of new reports. So, for those of you in the north, enjoy the early break in winter. Geoff -------------------------------------- If we lose a month, so be it, as I can understand your reasoning. Those of us in the south are losing a month of good weather, messing up at least my own long range plans. After being hit last year with winter at an unexpected time and being stuck in a low yield forest for four months and now losing a month of summer, I am really regretting chosing Sledmere as my initial destination. Mike Hughes ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Atlantis-Guy men From: "Martinez del Amo, Fran." <fjm@MSF.UNIZAR.ES> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:32:18 +0100 I send a mail in which I say that Francis(272) 'Francis@nemesis.iic.uam.es' Circulo_Interno(288) 'javier@nemesis.iic.uam.es' Argonautas(464) 'jason@piano.icm.uam.es' G.Mercader(332) 'eloy@piano.icm.uam.es' and jose@piano.icm.uam.es all are allied, I'm wrong, G.Mercader(332) 'eloy@piano.icm.uam.es' is not allied with the others, I'm sorry. Other allied of this you can find between some of the mest.unizar.es players. _______________________________ Francisco Martinez del Amo Monitor HIPPYES Facultad de Ciencias Why do I get sad when I think about fjm@MSF.UNIZAR.ES those parallel lines which always martinez@freenet.calgary.ab.ca go together and never meet? macfjm@freenet.hut.fi _______________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------- From: DBS%MP003@mpa15ab.mv-oc.unisys.com Date: 25 APR 95 08:34 Subject: Atl2: Re: Mean guy Well, your extorsionist friend seems to be very ambitious. He may be able to pull off the threat of killing your one unit, if he has a high stealth unit, but he can't do anything to prevent you from buying more men/units. From my knowledge of the two areas of Sledmere and Komarken, he'd be hard pressed to protect himself let alone any other players. While I might condone violence and killing, I do so with the utmost honesty and morality <eg>. Extorsionists should be handled with extreme prejudice. O.W.A.N.D. (Orcs With A Nasty Disposition) ---------------------------------------------------------------- David B. Stapleton Mission Viejo Room B245 N2 656-6421, (714)380-6421, FAX (714)380-6560 Internet: dbs@mp003.mv-oc.unisys.com or dstaplet@po3.mv.unisys.com ---------------------------------------------------------- From: "cyril.bouanna" <bouanna@eurolang.fr> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:20:27 +0200 Subject: ATL: Let's pray for January ! Let's all pray Our God, the Great Geoff, to recover January ! A lot of us live in the tropics and actually have their *summer* shortened ! A lot of us are currently studying and praying, and they've also lost one month. If we all pray, our God, who is the Goodness and the Loyalty of Atlantis, Our God Will Help Us ! Let's all pray with me, brothers and sister ! Reply to this Prayer, so that our God can hear us, because I'm sure we are a lot of his children who want the next month to be *February* ! And everything will be back to normal... - Grendel, Bard of Gondor. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cyril Bouanna Eurolang tel: 33-1-45.13.05.14 2 rue Louis Pergaud fax: 33-1-45.13.05.59 94700 Maisons-Alfort email: bouanna@eurolang.fr FRANCE (PARIS) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 18:12:03 edt From: jason@piano.icm.uam.es (Jason y sus Argonautas) Subject: ATLANTIS : Very Mean Guy > >People sharing the same site (possible allies) are : > > > >Gran Mercader & Sons (332), eloy@piano.icm.uam.es > >Argonautas (464), jason@piano.icm.uam.es > >Faction (587), jose@piano.icm.uam.es > > > >They have these units in Atlantis city : > > > >332 +* Europa (1915), Gran Mercader & Sons (332), avoiding, 3 high elves, 2 > > hor > >ses, wagon. > >332 +* Unit (2387), Gran Mercader & Sons (332), 13 high elves. > > > >464 +* Exploradores (2459), Argonautas (464), behind, 5 high elves. > > > >I don't think there are more of their units with stealth - I have been > >training OBS since turn two, and can see pretty much most things ;-) > > > Only one thing, I know some of this peaplo, and I want to say that they are > allies and some more factions.(About 12 factions, they can control some > cityes...). > I was in contact with them, but now I'm not his allies. But I don't Know nothing > about jose@piano... Yes, I'm allied with 15 factions but i'm not allied with faction 587. I want to become in a pure trade faction and I haven't any unit trained in combat, stealth or something like this. If you don't believe me you can see it in Sledmere City where my units are. I know Jose and i think he's joking. Please, Do you a favour and forget him. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:11:39 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: January, Shmanuary! Bah! What whiners. January indeed. As if we missed it. Nothing to do in January but sleep and read books. Useless month, good riddance to it. I say, skip next January too. All these winterlovin' religious types, squealin' like stuck pigs about *one* little month? Mercy, what would they do if we had, like, a solar eclipse? A giant flood? An earthquake? A depradation of purple wyverns? Fireball-shootin' lions? FOUR HUNDRED COMBAT4 ORCS on their doorstep? Wellll, may-perhaps we'll find out ;) The Crimson Robes (up in the cold north ;) ---------------------------------------------------------- From: "ROB PETERS" <RPeters@Defender.Defenders.org> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:10:54 EST Subject: FW: Virus Thought you all should see this. Subject: FW: Virus Subject: Virus Date: Tuesday, April 25, 1995 11:22AM Priority: High TO: ALL CMPEOPLE FROM: EDDIE CORREIA/IT DEPT PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY! The following notice came across my internet connect this morning and will be released by DOE-HQ today, although it may be too late in some cases. "There is a new computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times," DO NOT read the message. DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. Someone is sending e-mail under the title "goodtimes" nationwide. If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. Thought you might like to know... The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently, a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is unparalled in its destructive capability. Other, more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems of the InterNet. Once a computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop, which can severely damage the processor if left running that way too long. Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new computers the same way in a test e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good Times." Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - not reading it. The act of loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a received-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then trash the computer it is running on. The bottom line here is - if you receive a file with the subject line "Good Times," delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From:" line was surely struck by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the InterNet! It could save them a lot of time and money." Please pass this on...especially to anyone you know that uses "America Online" regularly. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:49:11 -0500 From: bailey@hagar.ph.utexas.edu (Ed Bailey) Subject: Re: FW: Virus This virus is (of course) a hoax. Please do not spread this rumor around. This rumor first appeared on America Online late last year. The "alert" was false then, and it's still false now. I am attaching a copy of the updated CIAC report to this message. Ed Bailey -- snip -- snip -- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:50:15 -0700 From: "Marvin J. Christensen" <christen@cheetah.llnl.gov> (by way of Michael Sattler) Subject: CIAC NOTES 09 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- U.S. DOE's Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ __ __ __ __ __ / | /_\ / |\ | / \ | |_ /_ \___ __|__ / \ \___ | \| \__/ | |__ __/ Number 95-09 April 24, 1995 This edition of CIAC NOTES describes the recent rebirth of "Good Times", and reiterates CIAC's previous position that "Good Times" is a hoax. Please send your comments and feedback to ciac@llnl.gov. $-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$ $ Reference to any specific commercial product does not necessarily $ $ constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by $ $ CIAC, the University of California, or the United States Government.$ $-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$ There is a rebirth of the "Good Times" urban legend. CIAC and other response teams, along with the Federal Communications Commission and America Online, have received numerous queries regarding the validity of the "Good Times" virus. The current "Good Times" message appears to be a repeat of the hoax perpetuated last December. CIAC first released CIAC NOTES 94-04 in December 1994 which is titled "THE 'Good Times' VIRUS IS AN URBAN LEGEND." The original "Good Times" message that was posted and circulated contained the following: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Here is some important information. Beware of a file called Goodtimes. | | | | Happy Chanukah everyone, and be careful out there. There is a virus on | | America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get anything called "Good | | Times", DON'T read it or download it. It is a virus that will erase your | | hard drive. Forward this to all your friends. It may help them a lot. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soon after the release of CIAC NOTES 04, another "Good Times" message was circulated. This is the same message that is being circulated during this recent "Good Times" rebirth. This message includes a claim that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a warning about the danger of the "Good Times" virus. This "Good Times" hoax message contains the following: The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major importance to any regular user of the InterNet. Apparently, a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other, more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. ... { stuff deleted } ... CIAC contacted the FCC to ensure that this reference was fabricated and that the "Good Times" is truly a hoax. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ====================== Having malicious code (malware) buried in the body of an E-mail message that would "infect" your computer is not a very likely possibility because characters in an E-mail message are displayed, not executed. CIAC still affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents, will not activate malware delivered in or with the message. Many people believe "in theory" that malware can be delivered and activated by some mail agents that have automated services. An example of such malware is mail delivered to a PC that has embedded, seemingly invisible escape sequences which affect screen display or program the keyboard to do some nastiness when some key is "accidently" pressed. The following is an excerpt from CIAC NOTES 05 which included and update to the "Good Times" urban legend. CIAC did not claim that E-mail could not be a delivery agent for malware. A real threat comes from attached files which could contain viruses or Trojan programs. You should scan any executable attachment before executing it in the same way that you scan all new software before using it. It is possible to create a file that remaps keys when displayed on a PC/MS-DOS machine with the ANSI.SYS driver loaded. However, this only works on PC/MS-DOS machines with the text displayed on the screen in text mode. It would not work in Windows or in most text editors or mailers. A key could be remapped to produce any command sequence when pressed, for example DEL or FORMAT. However, the command is not issued until the remapped key is pressed and the command issued by the remapped key would be visible on the screen. You could protect yourself by removing ANSI.SYS from the CONFIG.SYS file, but many DOS programs use the functionality of ANSI.SYS to control screen functions and colors. Windows programs are not effected by ANSI.SYS, though a DOS program running in Windows would be. - - ------------------------------ Who is CIAC? CIAC is the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability. Established in 1989, shortly after the Internet Worm, CIAC provides various computer security services free of charge to employees and contractors of the DOE, such as: . Incident Handling Consulting . Computer Security Information . On-site Workshops . White-hat Audits CIAC is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and is a part of its Computer Security Technology Center. Further information can be found at CIAC. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. See FIRST for more details. - - ------------------------------ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy. CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE and DOE contractors, and can be contacted at: Voice: 510-422-8193 FAX: 510-423-8002 STU-III: 510-423-2604 E-mail: ciac@llnl.gov For emergencies and off-hour assistance, DOE and DOE contractor sites may contact CIAC 24-hours a day. During off hours (5PM - 8AM PST), call the CIAC voice number 510-422-8193 and leave a message, or call 800-759-7243 (800-SKY-PAGE) to send a Sky Page. CIAC has two Sky Page PIN numbers, the primary PIN number, 8550070, is for the CIAC duty person, and the secondary PIN number, 8550074 is for the CIAC Project Leader. Previous CIAC notices, anti-virus software, pgp public key, and other information are available from the CIAC Computer Security Archive. World Wide Web: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ Anonymous FTP: ciac.llnl.gov (128.115.19.53) Modem access: (510) 423-4753 (14.4K baud) (510) 423-3331 (9600 baud) CIAC has several self-subscribing mailing lists for electronic publications: 1. CIAC-BULLETIN for Advisories, highest priority - time critical information and Bulletins, important computer security information; 2. CIAC-NOTES for Notes, a collection of computer security articles; 3. 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The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the University of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. - - --------------------------------------------------------------- End of CIAC Notes Number 95-09 95_4_24 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBL5vARrnzJzdsy3QZAQFC6AQAoJAuWKKH/9RJ9zD0UZBN5Z2GFPim24NB 9rtxIxDXqX9zl8eEiAa5MmSTx/AVkRgPi6JFGHaUKxamfkSRoZJeeKEIb12ZUUnA il8PIZex0Z9E6B6a4lMgapjmgYDYO0pLgY/MoRHts8+PHGl4WKGSLF2fi3nhnHpA neePBpHe8DA= =em+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Attachment converted: msattler:SIGNED MESSAGE 21 (TEXT/MPGP) (00005589) ---------------------------------------------------------- From: csd@microplex.com (Christian Daudt) Subject: Re: atlantis: Player list? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:05:04 -0700 (PDT) > Would it be possible to get the player list-file > posted to the mailing list every game-month? > Or is it too big? Just thinking about the ppl > without ftp access (like me.. ;) ). > For all you people without ftp access. There are email to ftp gateways that allow you to retrieve ftpable files via email. If you have ftp access, don't use this system as it overloads the gateways (and can take anything from a few hours to a few days to respond). This is what you do: Send an email to ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu, no subject. put the following as the email text: open ftp.rahul.net cd /pub/atlantis get players.txt quit and wait. You will get a response saying your mail was received and your position in the queue and sometime later, you'll receive an email with what you originally requested. Note that this works for any ftp site. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Daudt (csd@microplex.com) Software Engineer Microplex Systems Ltd. URL: http://www.microplex.com/ "The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity. the rest is overhead for the operating system." ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:58:50 GMT From: anthonyc@cet.co.jp (Anthony Chow) Subject: Re: player maps At 13:18 95/04/25 CEST, Gianluca Roncati wrote: >someone can tell me if there are player maps available somewhere? >thanks. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Gianluca Roncati - Ludoteca L'Hobbit & La Torre | >| RPG/BoardGames/WarGames association - ITALY | >| internet mc3142@mclink.it > >Via ObXpress 0.7.7 > http://www.cet.co.jp/~anthonyc/homepage.htm Best Maps there are. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:16:34 +1000 (EST) From: Christopher Dowling <cjd@dce.vic.gov.au> Subject: Swords in Abernethy If there are any units in Abernethy that would like to purchase swords, for a limited time I will produce and sell them for the price of 120 silver, depending on the quantity required it may be necessary to provide 75 silver in advance (to purchase the iron necessary to make the swords) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 01:40:28 GMT From: anthonyc@cet.co.jp (Anthony Chow) Subject: Re: Swords in Abernethy At 11:16 95/04/26 +1000, Christopher Dowling wrote: >If there are any units in Abernethy that would like to purchase swords, >for a limited time I will produce and sell them for the price of 120 >silver, depending on the quantity required it may be necessary to provide >75 silver in advance (to purchase the iron necessary to make the swords) > Platemail, Kashmar City, 400sp OBO ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 19:16:11 PDT From: "Azthar Septragen" <azthar@InterServ.Com> Subject: Re: FW: Virus I heard about this at least two months ago. I also saw a report from some big computer security organization, I don't remember the name of the org, but they track down viruses. The report bascally confirmed that it was a hoax. There was some speculation that it was an Anthropology experiment. That all aside, has any one out there EVER encoutered the "Good Times" virus, or for that matter has anyone met anyone who has encoutered the virus. Not the warnings, but the virus. Bear in mind this has been around for AT LEAST two months. Stuff on the Net gets around in days if not hours. Where is it? I want a copy. I want to fry my CPU. Not really, but I doubt it exists. Azthar Septragen Founder of the House of Azthar, Keeper of the Silver Star Faction 165: The House of Azthar contact: azthar@interserv.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 03:22:01 GMT From: anthonyc@cet.co.jp (Anthony Chow) Does anyone near Kashmar want to unload some High Elves? I'll trade for Hill Dwarves with mining skills, Platemail or Chainmail. I could use 10 or 20 HEL's in the next two or three turns. (Wood Elves just don't cut it.) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:52:44 -0400 From: lam@diamond.eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) Subject: Virus hoax... > > Thought you all should see this. > > Subject: FW: Virus > ("Good Times" doom predictions deleted...) No doubt there's a whole passel of debunking messages on the way, but just in case... The "Good Times" virus is a thoroughly debunked myth, an Urban Net Legend and probably a plot by the Hallelujagobble folks. Read your mail with impunity...if you can wade through the atl-players morass, you have nothing to fear from mythical virii ;-) Crimson Robes. Up