Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-europa.cts.com!jasona From: jasona@pro-europa.cts.com (Jason Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 1-900 BBS Message-ID: <8908151138.AA17239@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 14 Aug 89 17:56:33 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Comment to message from: mcgurrin@mwunix.mitre.org (Unknown User) mcgurrin@mwunix.mitre.org (Unknown User) writes: > Who'd have thought listening to anonymous confessions > would rake in the dough? This concept has just spread to the D.C. area. Do you mean confessing to someone, anonymously, or listening to someone else's confession? What do they do - hire "sinners"? Bug confession booths? Sounds like the Listener service as described in the book _Shockwave Rider_. (That's also where computer "worms" came from...) -Jason -=- UUCP: {nosc, uunet!cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.com} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!jasona ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!jasona@nosc.mil INET: jasona@pro-europa.cts.com - BITNET: pro-europa.uucp!jasona@psuvax1 "...for whom the Bell tolls..."