Comments from the Underground

Rants and Raves about "Links from the Underground"

I'm pleased to get comments (good, bad, ugly, bizarre, even the poetical - eliciting a response is fun!). I thought I might share some of them with you. In addition, I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation to the people who make suggestions and corrections to my pages. They are better for your efforts.
I hope they don't mind my printing their shit...

From: <address omitted to protect the guilty>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 01:36:34 -0400
To: justin@cyborgasmic.com
Subject: waste of my time!!!!

>YOU THINK YOUR SO FRIGGIN SMART...HOW DARE YOU WASTE MY TIME!!HOPE YOU GOT A >LAUGH!! OUT OF IT > > >SCUMB!FUCK!!!!!! > >WHOFAAH > >SAID IT!!

Thank you for taking the time to address me your comments.

always laughing,
Justin

From: bennettc@kwanza.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 07:58:32 -0700
To: justin@cyborgasmic.com
Subject: Good day

Just a short note to say that I really enjoy your pages... I am a bit confused however at the latest string of auto-biographical content? interesting to read in any case, kind of neet that there is this kind of universal openess I guess.. as well, is it you in that picture by the river carving a stick (and the other pictures of the person looking the same?) Craig

Craig -

Right on both counts. I don't think I could talk as much, or in the same way, about someone other than myself.
I used to write fiction, but at this point, life is weird enough without being made-up. Why not be open? It's more fun that way.

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 95 18:59 WET
From: tfee@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Ted Fee)

I'd just like to say that I like your writings. Like most, I suppose, I usually browse your site for those famous sex sites. But I recently had a chance to check out some of your writings. I didn't see them all but I think I will. I particularly liked the line "You chose the wrong guide and you blamed the map." Keep it up.

No reply necessary. Give my regards to Punky.

Ted

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:18:17 -0500
From: dsoubli <Dan.Soubliere@hookup.net>

Stumbled accross your stuff. I have no Idea what I am doing or where i am going. You've made it very easy for me to get a look at the WEB WORLD.

Thanx. May your camels hump always point North.

Spoonman

Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 14:31:45 -0500
To: dxw123@psu.edu (Doug Waddington)
From: justin@hotwired.com (Justin Hall)
Subject: e-jaculation

> It is ashame that you have taken it upon yourself to censure what >we the public see.

I have not taken it upon myself to censure anything - I am simply presenting my view of the web. I never claimed to present everything - I only present what I want to. You the public can see whatever you want. If you come to my pages, you are going to see what I want you to.

> Your self-rightous attitude toward the display of porn >on this server smacks of political correctness and conservatism.

Both? That's quite a feat!
What server/attitude are you talking about? Please explain yourself - I don't take kindly to uncouched claims of closemindedness.
At this point I can not debate your diatribe, since you have not made it clear what bee is buzzing in your bonnet.

> It is not your place >to restrict the information that could be made available over >the internet.

It is not your place to tell me what mine is.
Restrict is one word - filter is another.

> A truely objective person would present the information and >allow the user to excercise his or her ability to discern >what is for them and what is not.

I never claimed to be a truly objective person - if I was, I'd publish the Yahoo list.
A truly intelligent person would tell me what they objected to instead of ejaculating a simply self-righteous e-assault.
I would feel more sympathetic towards you if you had spent money on me. As it is, you are ranting at someone providing a free net service.
What kind of dialogue did you hope would ensue from your polemic? Perhaps you were kidding. Otherwise, explain yourself.

Justin Hall

From: Bert Valentin Jensen <bjensen@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 04:38:12 -0500
Subject: Mastering the Medium

Justin,

Thanks for bringing the depths of the web to the surface.

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 94 14:40:23 EST
From: "elvis@echonyc.com" <Dana.Christopher.Winthers@echonyc.com>
Subject: http://www.wired.com/Staff/justin/dox/rtkls.html#dadinner

Dude, after hunting around your site for a couple of days I just had to tell you that it's amazing, it truly rocks! I can honestly say that you've got one of the best sites on the Web.
I especially loved the family page...so, when I read 'Dinner with my Father' I had to tell ya how cool it is. My father bolted when I was a wee tike so I related.

Anyway bud, keep up the good work, this place is one of my regular stops!

Caio,
Dana Christopher Winthers

From: Ludwig Oberendorff <darth_v@dds.nl>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 05:00:17 -800
Subject: Girlie?

Hello Justin,

Two guys from Holland visited your Oliver North Homepage.
We'd like to know if you are a girlie.
We like your signed equipment and your picture but we are not really able to make out if you are feminin. Your looks are great though (please froget this if your equiped with more than just a hash-pipe)

Bye

Darth Vader and Tys

JOIN THE DARKSIDE

and four minutes later...

From: Ludwig Oberendorff <darth_v@dds.nl>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 05:04:27 -800
Subject: Oopsie

Hello Justin,

We just browsed through yor fun pages and now WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE
Thanks anyway
(please FORGET US NOW!)

Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 17:12:22 -0600 (CST)
From: East Limestone High School <elhs01@uahcs2.cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Home pg.

Hi,

My name is Jason Toone. I am a student at East Limestone High School in Athens, Alabama. I saw your homepage the other day and I think it is really cool, you did a great job. You can look at our school homepage, You can get there by:

http://east2.elhs.limestone.k12.al.us/elhs.htm
It is only avaliable during our regular school hours 8AM to 3PM CST. This homepage doesn't have a link to my homepage yet but it will sometime in January. Keep adding more cool stuff to your homepage. See you in Cyberspace.
Jason Toone
e-mail: elhs01@cs.uah.edu

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 14:00:01 -0700
From: joe@beeblebrox.tbyte.com (Joe Tucker)
Subject: kudos

"The best pages I've seen in months!"

Joe Tucker, Principal Pharmacophagist, Trilobyte

Joe
Bloom, Baby!

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 94 10:16:55 EDT
From: bauer@tig.com (Mike Bauer)
Subject: After Hours on the Internet Business Center

Surfed your site, Justin. Actually, I had surfed it a while ago but it got lost in the infinite host list. I am very interested in your site. I think you've done one of the best jobs in squirreling out some of the more interesting, offbeat sites that I'd like to put into IBC.
The problem is, this is a "family Web site" - I'd love to put some of the sites you have up but admittedly some, and I'm sure you know which, I don't want to point at. I can understand if you'd want it to be all our nothing, but I'm not sure I want to point to the whole site. What can we do?

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 00:29:11 -0400
From: andy@tiac.net
Subject: stranger browsing poetry

i contact
in a subway riding
working every day
everyone sees nothing
yearning for solitude
how can a mountain be farther?

From: ROBERT.SUTTON%MSFC14PO@x400gw.msfc.nasa.gov
Date: 15 Jul 94 13:23:00 -0500
Subject: surfin

Justin,

surfin the net I came across your page. The Ollie North signed
Dugout had me rolling on the floor! The funiest thing I've seen on
the net in a while. Did he have any idea what he was signing?
Maybe you can market a signature edition. Whatever, great stuff,

keep it up.

RCS

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 94 10:18:31 PDT
From: tching@bilge.water.ca.gov (Rice Cube)
Subject: Yer HTML at Swath...

Hey, I just finished perusing your www pages over at Swathmore.
Good shit. (that was a compliment) I went thru your visitors' page
listing all the .MILs and .GOVs. I didn't see my org in there. Why is
that? We waste just as much tax dollars as the next guy so I feel we
should be listed too. So, could you please revise your visitors' page
to include this organization as one of the tax-wasting gov't
institutions that access your web? (done with the bitch session)

Thank you for your support.

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From: Knut Arne Karlsen <jd@stud.unit.no>
Subject: Some limits?
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:14:27 +0200 (MET DST)

Dear Sir.

If You Sir are the editor of 'The Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful on the WWW'-part, I have a request.
Please don't include any links to Daniel C. Robbins. His hard-core pages are totally sick, and in my opinion, has nothing to do with free information or freedom in general. I think there is some link between freedom and responsibility, and his animal-sex pictures has no such link at all!!!
Of course, it is up to You Sir. But consider it, will You?

Sincerly Yours

Knut Arne Karlsen

-- Knut Arne Karlsen
jd@stud.unit.no

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:49:13 +0100 (BST)
From: Nicholas Sweeney <nsweeney@jesus.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: yay

Really like the home page... Cal Berekely have signposted it (which is where I found the link...) Anyway... just to let you know you're not hammering away at it in vain....

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 19:22:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thomas Stoodley <stoodley@FCRC-NEXT.ecs.wustl.edu>
Subject: Hey, neat Web pages...

I recently discovered your set of Web pages, "Justin's Links To The Underground." I _love_ it. You've done a great job of putting all that bizarre stuff in one place.
One question, though-- I've never been able to successfully retrieve the "Barney Blaster" and "Blackboard" files. Is there any trick to this that I'm not using, or are they temporarily down? Would it be possible for you to email me BinHexed versions? Please? (I _really_ want Blackboard...)
Anyhow, thanks a lot. You've made teaching the WWW to my staff a lot more interesting...

Tom Stoodley
Student Computing Services
Washington University, St. Louis
stoodley@fcrc-next.ecs.wustl.edu
--or-- tjs1@cec.wustl.edu
--or-- tjstoodl@artsci.wustl.edu

From: mcdonald@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Daniel McDonald)
Subject: Yet another "military" lurker
To: jhall1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 14:28:57 -0400 (EDT)

First of all, let me ease your paranoia a bit. I am merely a research who happens to work for a military research lab.
Second of all, you have an interesting home page that is keeping me from doing useful work. This is a complement on your page, and a slam on my lack of will.
Keep it up!

--
Dan McDonald       | Mail:  {danmcd,mcdonald}@itd.nrl.navy.mil --------------+
Computer Scientist | WWW:   http://wintermute.itd.nrl.navy.mil               |
Naval Research Lab | Phone: (202) 404-7122        #include <disclaimer.h>    |
Washington, DC     | "Rise from the ashes, A blaze of everyday glory" - Rush +

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 20:51:47 -0500 (EST)
From: "James S. Burns" <burns@me.udel.edu>
Subject: Justin's Links
To: jhall1@cc.swarthmore.edu

You're an original! Thanks for the brain zap. Regards, Jim.
P.S. Gooluc with the job hunt.

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 18:20:59 GMT
From: belfiore@aer.plh.af.mil (Jim Belfiore)
To: jahall@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu
Subject: Your WWW stuff...

*Major* kudos to you and what you've done. Absolutely outstanding work, guy.

Jim Belfiore
Research Associate - Atmosphereic & Environmental Research, Inc.

P.S.: Don't let the .mil address fool you. Some of us folks stuck on military domains can still surf with the best of them.
P.P.S.: Your e-mail address (jhall@cc.swarthmore.edu) is bouncing like like a cheap date.

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