SWAT, Newsletter for 08-93

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No part of this newsletter may be reproduced by any lame pirate magazines for any reason unless you send over some Bud Light babes to suck our dicks. SWaT is (C)opyright 1993 Deth, Ltd. All rights pissed away. ============================================================================ Yet another joyous SWaT newsletter hits the stands. I wasn't going to sit down and write a newsletter this month because I didn't feel like much was going on, but now that I see this ultra-lame text file from the 51o Dew-Crew, I felt impelled to write up the newsletter. It may be the only way to clarify what has been happening as of late with the group and with the departures of certain people. But first, business is business: SITE UPDATE: I don't know if anyone is STILL unclear as to what kind of boards we are looking for in our distribution sites, but we want ONLY HST and above, which means all you v32shit lamers that are begging for sites can get lost. Unless you are someone that everyone in the scene knows and you have something extraordinary to offer the group, you are not going to get a site, unless someone in Sr Staff takes a deep liking to you. We added a few sites and we are getting everyone rolling. There were a couple of sites that I thought were doing great, but when I called there wasn't shit. It is up to the sysops of these boards to call us and tell us if the couriers aren't doing their jobs, as we can't call every single board and make sure everyone is up-to-date at all times. Everyone is rolling now, though, so things are good for the sites as a whole. Among those we added, are The Arcade BBS, located in chilly Alaska and The Hemispheres, a nice 2-node system local to me that is run by a great staff of guys. Get the numbers to these boards from any quality BBS and give them a call! HQ UPDATES There was quite a shuffle in the HQs in the last month or so. The WHQ was moved from Agents of Fortune to Skynet. Skynet serves as the WHQ and Application center. DO NOT CALL SKYNET FOR WAREZ, as it only carries a private console area and tons of text files, but NO IBM WAREZ. It is there for everyone to be able to get in touch with SWaT quickly and to apply for distribution sites and couriers. It also serves as the world hub to ZeroNET, the official SWaT netmail message network. If you are interested in joining the net, whether you are in SWaT or not, feel free to call the board and get yourself hooked up. As for Agents of Fortune, we understand that the board went down due to some personal problems and that Butcher basically got tired of things. It was a great board and served the pirate community well for a long time. We wish him well. The Canadian HQ changed from The Hood to F/X. I felt that it was time for a change there and that The Hood seemed to attract a lot of complications for us, so we went somewhere else, where I thought we could make a better impact. We are starting to get rolling on there, so look out for all the releases being slammed there first by SWaT. The Eastern and Western HQs were realigned, of sorts. We were told that The Elusive Dream was "in the bag" as the Eastern HQ and that Mirage was in as the Western HQ. The whole Elusive Dreams thing was basically a ton of shit coming from an ex-sr staff member and Mirage was just big misunderstanding. Our apologies to both of those board's sysops. However, we turned to current sites as the new Eastern and Western HQs. The Manhattan Project, a board on the comeback, serves as the new Western HQ. Rifleman is going to go 4 nodes on his system and we'll be there to help him out with everything we can. The Eastern HQ went to Psychotic Wave, another board about to make the 4-node jump. This great little board will be the center of attention in the upcoming months as more and more quality users get on there and make the board happen, so look out for Psychotic Wave in the near future. The courier HQs remained the same (shouldn't fix something that isn't broken, eh?). Alpha 2010 is one of the premiere BBSes in the world and we are fortunate to have a great board such as it to serve as one of our courier HQs. Silus Guardian puts a lot of time and effort into the system and it shows, as it is attempting to edge out The Elusive Dream (probably its only competition) in the speed and service depts. It is also adding more nodes (!) to its system, so bigger is indeed better. Dark Palace changed its name to Momentary Lapse of Reason and is still rocking with the incredible 10-node setup. Escape Key is looking to rework things with the board a little and changes will be coming to make the board not only look better <g> but it will also remain as one of the top systems in the world, especially with SWaT there. MEMBER UPDATES! Well, this is probably the most interesting part of the newsletter this month. It seems that a certain Sr staff member named Liquid Khaos took it upon himself to make boards SWaT sites. According to a couple of sources, he was charging sites $150 a month (or saying that that's how much it was to be a site) and then charged people hardware on top of that. One unfortunate individual gave a SB-16 to Liquid Khaos and his friend Phoenix Claw. When we learned of it, we tried to contact Liquid Khaos and Phoenix Claw, but both were unreachable (Liquid Khaos' phone line was disconnected). This, along with the fact that we couldn't reach Liquid Khaos, the fact that he had misled us about HQ boards (like Elusive Dreams) and people being in the group as couriers (like HOPPERMANiA, who is now helping us anyway, and SLAiN, -=(KNoX)=-, Macro Nit, and a couple of others), I felt it was necessary to remove Liquid Khaos from the group, at least until the rest of the Sr staff gets to talk to him and let him explain his side of the story. But for now, Liquid Khaos is out. Then I get a little text file from the 51o lamers, which is reproduced below: ---------- File comprised by: Phoenix Claw: First hand account of the bullshit going on Aristotle: ATHENS will STAY S.W.A.T. with MY MAN Liquid Chaos The Duke: Bitchin about taken Jagermeirter shots for losing in Jones The Avenger: Shenaid O'Conner with a dick The Booze in the House: Jagermeister, Absolut Vodka, Bacardi Light Jim Beam, Cuervo Tequila, Foster, Heinekin, and Bud Light. I'm sure you all heard about the three senior members who decided to leave the best courier group around. If you haven't...then fuck you... go call Digital Underground. You deserve bein on Zandorphs BBS. Whats going on? Well, this geek motherfucker donated a piece of shit he called a graphics card which didn't work for a courier site as a private deal to Liquid Chaos so that Pheonix Claw, his bud, and neighbor would courier to his lame assed PD "wanna be elite" bbs. When the card didn't work, Pheonix Claw refused to courier or even call the pathetic piece of data slop he called a bbs. Some how this loser thought that the deal was for a S.W.A.T. courier site, which was bullshit. However he called the 3 senior members and told them a bunch of bullshit. One of these lies was that he was promised a site for S.W.A.T. for the board. Because of this, the 3 members thought that Liquid Chaos was taking in profit for himself and decided that they would leave the group cuz they didn't want him to got behind thier backs and get some gain for S.W.A.T. sites for himself. So they left...just because they decided to listen to this nobody. We're here to set the record straight.... Liquid Chaos did everything he could for S.W.A.T. and all the members in the group. if someone even thinks that he would only act for himself, that proves that the person doesn't even know him. We think it's seriously sad that someone would actually believe this loser Zandorph over Liquid Chaos. It's a bad sign that a lame assed new "PD converted to elite a week ago" could actually break up such a strong and committed group, the best courier group, as S.W.A.T. in such a short time. If every senior member of decent groups began listening to the wining crap of lamers like Zandorph, all of the groups would be dead within a week. What happenned to S.W.A.T. should be a warning to all the good groups that have, and will continue to, keep the scene alive. Stick tight and don't listen to bullshit from outsider nobodys'. Keep the scene pure. As for S.W.A.T... We won't quit. This is just a temporary and SLIGHT set back. ALL Sites will still be serviced better than before! It'll take a shitload of a lot more than some prepubicent faggot like Zandorph to kill one of the best courier groups in the world. *+=-[S.W.A.T.]-=+* Stayin Alive and Kickin Ass in '93! ------ How nice of them to indent it for me..:).. First off, lemme dispel any rumors about people leaving SWaT. The only people that left were Liquid Khaos, and not by his own choice. Disk Killer and I had talked about taking a break, and perhaps retiring the group for awhile, but thinking about it, that is a lot easier said than done. Der Schatten quit the group like 2 weeks ago because he is going back to school. And that's about it. What this lame text files that these fools wrote is that local business should never mix with anything outside of the area code. None of the lamers that are mentioned in that text file circulating around are in SWaT and they have no way nor permission to do anything with any of the sites and least of all have they earned the right to express an opinion about SWaT and keeping it alive, because they have had absolutely nothing to do with the group as far as I know or as far as I am concerned. I could give a flying fuck about them, their Jagermeister, and their little faggot area code. SWaT does not belong to 510, 510 belongs to SWaT. At any rate, these guys haven't even bothered to contact me, so fuck 'em. They can do a courier group, just not SWaT. SWaT is alive and well and staying on top as always, and we don't need a bunch of sniveling losers to help us like that. NOW... there is some truth to the fact that SWaT was going to go away. I seriously considered retiring from the group for awhile and letting someone else do it until I got ready to come back, but I think what we will be doing instead is delegating a lot of responsibilities and putting my trust in the rest of the staff to keep at it like I have been. I have to go back to school and I basically won't have time to do much with SWaT or anyone until December, when Winter Break rolls around. We will see how things go. BUT.. at any rate, there is going to be a SWaT and it is still going to be delivering the fastest warez around for a very very long time, apparently. And, in case anyone is confused, the definitive and latest SWaT.NFO is going to be attached to the end of this little article, so be sure to take a look at it and make sure you know who is in and who is out (or left out) of the infofile and stay updated! COURIERS If you have any aspiration to be a courier for us, you must have at least an HST, preferabbly a Dual. Anything else won't cut it. SITES: Sites are still only $50 a month and we guarantee the fastest warez for your money. Please call Skynet if you are interested in sites. That's about all I have to say this month. The school crunch coming up cost us our top couriers, Spaceman Spiff and The Cardinal, but I am assured that they will return in the summertime. I may go, I may not. I will wait for school to start on the 20th of this month to see, and everyone will know in the next newsletter. I don't have any games reviewed, but I promise I will play something next month...:). So until next month, remember that SWaT is alive and anything mentioned by anyone else outside of SWaT or outside of this newsletter is nothing but trash. You want the real story, come to me or anyone else in the Sr Staff. --CyberChrist -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SWaT HEADQUARTER BOARDS │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Skynet (WHQ & App Center)......[404].......................CyberChrist...│ │ Alpha 2010 (Courier HQ)........[210]............[6 Nodes]..Silus Guardian│ │ The Dark Palace (Courier HQ)...[804]............[10 Nodes].Escape Key....│ │ The Hood (Canadian HQ).........[416]............[3 Nodes]..Berserker.....│ │ House of God (European HQ).....[+31]............[2 Nodes]..HOPPERMANiA...│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ MEMBER BOARDS │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TnT............................[503]............[4 Nodes]...Disk Killer..│ │ The Rose Garden................[513]........................White Rose...│ │ Snake's Place..................[714]........................Snake........│ │ Gravity's Pull.................[604]............[2 Nodes]...Litning Hopkn│ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ DISTRIBUTION SITES │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ The Manhattan Project..........[503]............[2 Nodes]...Rifleman.....│ │ Mechanical Resistance..........[708]............[2 Nodes]...Mr Goodwrench│ │ Psychotic Wave.................[803]............[3 Nodes]...Hed Maniac...│ │ Harmony Sk8s...................[718]............[2 nodes]...SKaTeMaSTeR..│ │ Muscle Beach...................[203]........................J.P. ........│ │ Legion of Doom BBS.............[203]........................The Phantom..│ │ Rat's Nest.....................[813]............[4 Nodes]...WiZBaNG......│ │ State of Devolution............[305]............[2 Nodes]...Marauder.....│ │ Psychic Link...................[818]........................Mandrake.....│ │ The Burroughs..................[310]........................Weasel.......│ │ Alien Nation...................[813]............[2 Nodes]...Evil Enforcer│ │ The Hemispheres................[404]............[2 Nodes]...RadaR........│ │ The Arcade.....................[904]........................Robocop......│ │ Annhiliation Nation............[416]........................Liquid Flesh.│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ · ──] Senior Staff [── · CyberChrist, Disk Killer, Potsie · ──] SWaT Members [── · White Rose, Snake, Lightning Hopkins · ──] Euro Couriers [── · HOPPERMANiA, AngeL DusT, ZorC, Firehead, LiON, LowCyl, HiTMAN · ──] SWaT Spreading Team [── · The Cardinal, Spaceman Spiff, Mega, The Fiend, Ram Chip, Lightning Hopkins, 96 Faces, CyberChrist, Black Death, Holo Dreams, Duke, Le Magnifique, Bash -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- INTERESTED IN JOINING SWaT? Download SWATAPP.ZIP from any quality BBS and upload it to any of our HQ boards. Or get in contact with CyberChrist at the SWaT World HQ, Skynet, 404-296-2835. Login and drop us a line and let us know what you think you can do for the group! -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Greets and Grunts: Der Schatten: Bust me comma bitch.. Spaceman Spiff: You can't quit! <cracking whip> Faster! Faster! :) The Cardinal: Joe's couriering? How original... :) Liquid Khaos: If you see this, you're fired.. Black Mischief: Mercury schmurcury, hurry up and get organized.. Accuris: You'll never read this anyway... put your computer back together! Disk Killer: Maybe we shouldn't quit after all.. FlatLiner: Mandrake told me to say hi to you.. Mandrake: Did Celerity finally expire on you? Bash: Call me later, I'm busy.. :) Mr Goodrwrench: Thanks for the OS/2 help, the Intermail help, the PCB help, the MGH help.. :) Two-Tone: At least there's TWO of us that like watching 'rasslin'.. :) Shadow Master: Stop calling me, really.. please stop.. To everyone else out there that I like, "hey!" ----- PS: My home phone is not the damn SWaT hotline. Please don't call me all the damn time about dumb shit. Leave me alone. Go away. Fuck off.