ATLANTISv2 atl-players-digest #44

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:58:01 +0200
From: Pandreas@edvz.sbg.ac.at (Andreas Prlic)
Subject: build in towns?

Hi!
Is it possible to build e.g. a tower in a town, protected by City guards?
As far as I could read, the guard flag does not prevent other units to BUILD!

So I guess I could build even a Citadel, if I could afford it,
or did I miss a line?

Thank you very much!
Greetings,
Andreas

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From: "D.J. McGaw" <u3djm@csc.liv.ac.uk>
Subject: Kashmar Areas
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:30:35 +0100 (BST)

Dear All in the Kashmar area,

I am planning, teaching commitments permitting, to have two leaders scout the
areas Southeast and Southwest of the City (Both Dezou Areas)!

I have no ulterior motives and will move out within the next two turns!
(In case the orders fail the first time, I will require a second turn to move)

As I have said I have NO aggressive intensions - My units have nothing to
hide, and I have listed both leaders stats below - Besides, one leader doesn't
hold a threat to anyone.

This e-mail is basically a grovel to fellow adventurers in these two areas to
just leave me to gain a little info on the areas around me. Please just let
mebe!

I have heard that the Kashmar area is poorly resourced, and so I am planning
on moving away from the region, but need a little idea WHERE TO!

Anyway, these are the two scouting leaders. I have stripped them of silver,
and given it to another unit, just in case.

Unit 859 Falcon, 1 leader moving southeast.
with horse (and sword if I can buy it!)
Combat 2, Riding 2, Stealth 2

Unit 1671 Eagle, 1 leader moving southwest.
(with sword if I can buy it!)
Combat 2

As you see - NO THREAT!

Thanx to all it may concern!

Dave McGaw
u3djm@csc.liv.ac.uk
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Date: 25 Apr 1995 17:40:58 -0700
From: "Mike Hughes" <Mike_Hughes@smtp.svl.trw.com>
Subject: Re: FW- Virus
Subject: Re: FW- Virus
Date: 25 Apr 1995 17:40:58 -0700
From: "Mike Hughes" <Mike_Hughes@smtp.svl.trw.com>
Subject: Re: FW- Virus

Reply to:   RE>FW: Virus

For your info:
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The following are two articles from CIAC Notes, an electronic publication of
the U.S. DOE's Computer Incident Advisory Capability, which addressed "Good
Times" virus warnings being circulated.  The short version is that the "Good
Times" virus is a hoax.  Please do not propagate warnings about it.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

In the early part of December, CIAC started to receive information requests
about a supposed "virus" which could be contracted via America OnLine, simply
by reading a message.  The following is the message that CIAC received:

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| 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.
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THIS IS A HOAX.  Upon investigation, CIAC has determined that this message
originated from both a user of America Online and a student at a university at
approximately the same time, and it was meant to be a hoax.

CIAC has also seen other variations of this hoax, the main one is that any
electronic mail message with the subject line of "xxx-1" will infect your
computer.

This rumor has been spreading very widely.  This spread is due mainly to the
fact that many people have seen a message with "Good Times" in the header.
They delete the message without reading it, thus believing that they have
saved themselves from being attacked. These first-hand reports give a false
sense of credibility to the alert message.

There has been one confirmation of a person who received a message with
"xxx-1" in the header, but an empty message body.  Then, (in a panic, because
he had heard the alert), he checked his PC for viruses (the first time he
checked his machine in months) and found a pre-existing virus on his machine.

He incorrectly came to the conclusion that the E-mail message gave him the
virus (this particular virus could NOT POSSIBLY have spread via an E-mail
message).  This person then spread his alert.

As of this date, there are no known viruses which can infect merely through
reading a mail message.  For a virus to spread some program must be executed.

Reading a mail message does not execute the mail message.  Yes, Trojans have
been found as executable attachments to mail messages, the most notorious
being the IBM VM Christmas Card Trojan of 1987, also the TERM MODULE Worm
(reference CIAC Bulletin B-7) and the GAME2 MODULE Worm (CIAC Bulletin B-12).

But this is not the case for this particular "virus" alert.

If you encounter this message being distributed on any mailing lists, simply
ignore it or send a follow-up message stating that this is a false rumor.

Karyn Pichnarczyk
CIAC Team
ciac@llnl.gov

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More on the Good Times Virus Hoax

CIAC recently sent out a Notes 94-04 telling its clients that the "good times"
virus message circulating around the Internet was a bogus virus alert.

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.  However, the amount of
E-mail CIAC received in response to issue 4 was extrordinary.  To summarize
what we received: lots of thank you's for exposing "good times" and "xxx-1"
viruses as urban legends (hoaxes); no E-mail viruses have been captured (and
brought to us for examination); the FCC warning concerning "good times" was
retracted; the warning message and its denounciation are seen to behave like
viruses (memetic lifeforms) with a human serving as the replicating mechanism
(just like chain letters); many people believe "in theory" that malware can be
delivered and activated by some mail agents that have automated services.

The best example of such malware was 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.  This
case is described more fully below.

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.

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 19:26:01 +0300
From: Jason Robinson <ewing@mkoski.otol.fi>
Subject: Re: Last comment on Jose@piano...

On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Martinez del Amo, Fran. wrote:
> By the way, if you are wondering who are going to attack menter and to kill all
> Factions in the battle (the anonimouse message in the last two Times) I can tell
> you that they are:
> Faction 234 Romanos Country Liberation Force: av559@Freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU
> Faction 236 Kalisto Rookies: amartinez@mvet.unizar.es
> Faction 251 Prophet Followers: moustafa@mest.unizar.es
> Faction 237 Soldados Drakull Drakull Soldiers: u0904872@soneto.etsiig.uniovi.es
> Faction 325 La hermandad del Faraon Negro: jrazabal@mest.unizar.es
> Faction 429 Los chicos de Mc William: luis.ines@mest.unizar.es
> and more unknow people...
> They have enough men and some swords, also they are war and  magic-war factions.

Well, if this is true, everyone in the cities and towns should
 get together to help the Cityguards to defend the places!
 Ally yourself with the great cityguards today!

- Cilion Highdale, Damage Inc.
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Subject: 325 is not allied with 587
From: JAVIER RAZABAL VELILLA <jrazabal@mest.unizar.es>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 18:32:41 +0100

I`m The Faraon Negro, leader of Faction 325.I`m
not allied with faction 587.Hirgul has no reason
to assert that.He is a liar.Personal problems with
other members of our alliance leads him to this
verbal aggression.
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:08:24 +0100
From: Hugo de Naranjas <naranjas@orange.juice.co.sp>
Subject: Atlantis - seeking firends

Hello I am new to game and I look for firends for alliance is anyone
interesting in this?

Hugo de Naranjas.
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:25:15 +0200
From: jose@piano.icm.uam.es
Subject: Re: kill

> If you do not pay ME 1000 sil I will execute all your units without
> hesitation. You cannot run as I have well established units in and at all
> exit point from Atlantis City.
> The money is to be paid to unit 695. Faction 361. I have the means to kill
> you and this is no hoax.
> Thank you.
> Kermit.
> Head of the ASSASSINS Guild!

Ah! Ah! This is a good joke, too.

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To all people:
        I had got a mistake with atlantis list direction.

Too much words about a hard joke for beginers. I'm a newbie too (in my f
irst turn!) and I can't do anything to kill or assassinate.

But I know now the purpose of some factions and perhaps that some of thi
s that I had suppose newbies have a lot of strenght and people. It is very stran
ge, isn't it?.

I will continue with hard jokes to see things like these.

A hard and bad joker.

Eh! Eh! Eh!
d joke for beginers. I'm a newbie too (in my f
irst turn!) and I can't do anything to kill or assassinate.

But I know now the purpose of some factions and perhaps that some of thi
s that I had suppose newbies have a lot of strenght and people. It is very stran
ge, isn't it?.

I will continue with hard jokes to see things like these.

A hard and bad joker.

Eh! Eh! Eh!

Ciao ......
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From: "D.J. McGaw" <u3djm@csc.liv.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Atlantis Magic
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:20:36 +0100 (BST)

> Can anyone tell me what spells are available in which foundations.  This is
> so that I can study the foundations that will be of most use to me.
>
>
I'm all for helping other people, but mages have spent a lot of time and
moneyfinding out, so I think you should do the same!

We all go into it blind and then find out about spells (good or bad), so
please don't ask for freebie info on such a topic!

Dave McGaw
Faction 266 - Little Furry Creatures
u3djm@csc.liv.ac.uk
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From: "J.P. Harvey" <u3jph@csc.liv.ac.uk>
Subject: ATLANTIS : lost address
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:57:30 +0100 (BST)

Dear all,

Someone contacted me about a week ago for some important information. I
replied to them that I would deal with their request after 'processing' the
hundredsof mails I received over the easter break. Unfortunately, my 'processing' got
a little out of hand and I've deleted their original message. Could that
person please re-establish contact with me. Thankyou.

Lord Viper.

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From: khearn@pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)
Subject: Re: kill
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:51:49 -0700 (PDT)

>
>
> > If you do not pay ME 1000 sil I will execute all your units without
> > hesitation. You cannot run as I have well established units in and at all
> > exit point from Atlantis City.
> > The money is to be paid to unit 695. Faction 361. I have the means to kill
> > you and this is no hoax.
> > Thank you.
> > Kermit.
> > Head of the ASSASSINS Guild!
>
> Ah! Ah! This is a good joke, too.
>
> -------------
>
> To all people:
>         I had got a mistake with atlantis list direction.
>
>         Too much words about a hard joke for beginers. I'm a newbie too (in my f
> irst turn!) and I can't do anything to kill or assassinate.
>
>         But I know now the purpose of some factions and perhaps that some of thi
> s that I had suppose newbies have a lot of strenght and people. It is very stran
> ge, isn't it?.
>
>         I will continue with hard jokes to see things like these.
>
>                 A hard and bad joker.
>
>                 Eh! Eh! Eh!

Just a joke, eh? And if anyone had paid you 1000 silver, you would have
  given it back and told them it was a joke, right? I don't think so.
  You would have kept it. Extortion is extortion, whether you are
  bluffing or not, and calling it a joke when people call your bluff
  doesn't change the facts.

I doubt anyone will forget this little joke of yours. Some may decide
  to take action as a result. I'm sure that if you continue these
  'hard jokes' a lot more will decide to take action. Of course, when
  their assassins show up and kill off all your characters, they will
  be the ones that are laughing.

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

John Bigboote
  Yoyodyne Propulsion Labs
  "Where the future begins tomorrow"

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:13:00 -0400
From: Timothy Ireland <tireland@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Swords in Abernethy

I will make them and sell them for 100...

On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, 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)
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Nicholas Jost -- Programmer <nick@av1.vrx.vhi.com>
Subject: Atlantis
Date: 22 Apr 1995 23:36:13 -0700

>
> Dear all,
>
> Someone contacted me about a week ago for some important information. I
> replied to them that I would deal with their request after 'processing' the
> hundredsof mails I received over the easter break. Unfortunately, my 'processing' got
> a little out of hand and I've deleted their original message. Could that
> person please re-establish contact with me. Thankyou.
>
> Lord Viper.
>
>

Lost someones execution orders?  Makes me feel real secure the that way.  Great
the Assassin's guild doesn't do book keeping...... :)

Lord Nicholas, First Paladin of the Order
Knights of Corpeum y Spiritos
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:23:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: <cowboy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail

can i get taken off this list please
thanks in advance
cowboy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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Subject: I`m not allied 587
From: INES LIAN LUIS MIGUEL <luis.ines@mest.unizar.es>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 21:24:07 +0100

I`m not allied with faction 587.O.K?
I repeat : I`M NOT ALLIED WITH FACTION 587.
The poor Hirgul don`t know what is saying...
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From: Nicholas Jost -- Programmer <nick@av1.vrx.vhi.com>
Subject: Atlantis swords
Date: 23 Apr 1995 00:54:44 -0700

In <Pine.3.89.9504261527.A17297-0100000@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca>, Timothy Ireland wrote:
>
> I will make them and sell them for 100...
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, 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)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
I'll start buying at 80 silver.