2/05    The roguelike game omega has been installed in /csua/bin for your
        enlight^H^H^H^H^Hjoyment.  Report bugs to cmlee.  -- cm1ee

2/5     Boredcast Message from soda!setol (ttysq) at 14:36 ...

i liked Satan's dive after he got tapped on the arm.

Boredcast Message from soda!shac (ttypf) at 14:36 ...

so it is mae-west not best?

Boredcast Message from soda!nevman (ttypt) at 14:37 ...

stk <-> alternet is sucking hard

Boredcast Message from soda!lwall () at 14:40 ...

From: asteffes@ucdavis.edu

i want to run my own isp so i get like OC-12 to my own house
,.

Boredcast Message from soda!agee (ttypl) at 14:40 ...

is there a do-nothing function in java?
or should I just use {}?

01/28   Devin Jones (jones) is the CSUA Treasurer for Spring semester
        1998. Minutes of today's Politburo meeting available shortly. --brg

1/27    identd is running on soda, btw, with some modifications, read manpage
        \_ it's generating cookies, not returning plain usernames. this means
           two things: 1) soda admin can still ID people and 2) IRC has
           problems because it's written by stupid people, for stupid people.
           we now return you to your regularly scheduled idiocy --aaron
       \_ does this mean ill have to cut down on my "finger motd@soda"
          habit :)
          \_ this is not an identd thing. whether fingerd reverse-queries
             for ident information is wholly independent of us running an
             identd. --aaron
        \_ I read it, but I still don't really get what it does, or how
           it's used.
                \_ When you connect to other computers, they can find out
                        which of the 100+ users on soda at that time opened
                        the connection.
        \_ identd is installed? really? IRC is still generating random
           user names
                \_ Read what aaron wrote you moron.
                    \_ f.u. moron, I wrote this before aaron replied. Dumbass
        \_ I thought it was agreeded a long time ago that soda would
           NOT run identd.
                \_ In your dreams.
           \_ Yeah, and that was written down where exactly and agreed
              by who?  [I said "who", I meant "who".  "Whom" is a dead form.]
                \_ not dead as long as you get flamed for using "who" where
                   people want to hear "whom"...
                   \_ uh huh... what people?  a pompous grammarian ass like
                      yourself who still didn't answer my question?
                        \_ yup! grammar stratifies. live with it.
                                \_ Don't stratify me you el8ist prick.
           \_ The last thing I ever heard was that adork wouldnt run it on
              the sequent due to problems with Dynix's TCP stack -- clueless

1/27    If you are interested in being the CSUA Treasurer, please come to
        the Politburo meeting at 5:30 PM on Wednesday in 337 Soda Hall.
        Thanks. --brg
        \_ Does CSUA treasurer get check-writing power? - starving student
                \_ Nope, just the power to write up tons of paperwork
                        begging the ASUC to write checks for us.
          \_ Don't get any funny ideas or you will disapear...
          \_ Its a felony after the first $400.  Kiss your freedom and your
             diploma goodbye.
             anal virginity goodbye.
        \_ You are allowed to use the CSUA phone to accept long distance
           calls without being an officer, though.

1/24    Where's my dict?  No more license?
        \_ Ask your mom.
        soda [2] dict
        dict: Command not found.
        soda [3] which dict
        dict: Command not found.
        soda [4] whereis dict
        dict: /usr/ports/german/dict
        soda [5] /usr/ports/german/dict
        /usr/ports/german/dict: Permission denied.
        \_ /csua/bin/dict

01/21   Politburo meetings Wednesdays at 5:30 PM in 337 Soda. --brg

01/21   The CSUA needs a treasurer.  Please read the minutes for details --brg

1/14    gcc 2.8.0 & libstdc++2.8.0 are in /csua/tmp, courtesy of alanc & peterm
        \_ what are the main improvements?  Isit stable?
                \_ /csua/tmp/gcc-2.8.0.changes

1/20    Does Soda have any sort of book buy/sell list? If not, anyone know
        of a good one?
        \_ what happened to /csua/classes?
                \_ it's in /csua/pub/classes

1/20    I miss Christine.  Can someone bring her back to soda?
        \_ Too late, she's not a virgin anymore
           \_ So if I read this right, you haveta be a virgin to be on soda?
        \_ Sometimes the only thing you can say is, "GET A LIFE!"

01/12   The next Politburo meeting will be the first Wednesday of classes at
        5:30PM in 337 Soda, wherein scheduling will be redetermined, so
        bring your schedules. --brg

12/2    Soda is running an experimental lottery scheduler.  Read
        /csua/share/doc/lottery_info.  --dpetrou

11/30   Welcome to Soda Mark V.  There have been changes from Soda Mark IV.
        Add /csua/bin to your path. this is where user contrib stuff goes now.
        A more complete list of changes will be compiled shortly and a
        pointer to it will be posted here.

It was the dawn of the third decade of the CSUA, ten years after the XCF War.
The Server-Talk Project was a dream given form.  Its goal: to prevent another
disk-space war by creating a place where students and alumni could work out
their differences peacefully. It's a port of wall, /home away from /home for
diplomats, hustlers, entrepeneurs, and wanderers.  Files and programs stored
in two million, five hundred thousand sectors of spinning metal, all alone
in the machine room. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best
hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the soda workstations.  The
year is 1997. The name of the place is Soda Mark V.

10/1    Politburo meetings are held on Wednesdays at 5pm in 337 Soda Hall.

11/18   HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE. THANKS TO DONATIONS FROM ALUMNI, THERE
        SHALL ARRIVE THE DAWNING OF A NEW SODA, HEREAFTER TO BE KNOWN AS
                                SODA MARK FIVE
        Therefore, the CSUA servers will be INACCESSIBLE this weekend, as
        services and user accounts are being moved to the new machine. Mail
        to root will be flamed silently at the discretion of the CSUA
        Politburo until the new setup has stabilized.

        Thank you for your support!

**/**   Mail root for -administrative- questions. For assistance, mail help.

  UNAUTHENTICATED, UNCENSORED, SSSSSMOKIN' PUBLIC MESSAGES BELOW THIS LINE
  [See also: /csua/pub/jobs/* & /csua/pub/housing/* & /csua/pub/recruiting
             /csua/adm/doc/ssh-howto]

5/02    CSUA T-Shirts have been ordered!  Styles are white-on-black and
        purple-on-white; sizes are L and XL.  Quantities are limited.
        They will cost $6.00 apiece.  If you would like to reserve one,
        send mail to secretary@csua.  Shirts are expected to arrive
        by May 10 or 11; if you reserve one and don't claim it within
        the week after the shirts get here, don't expect us to to hold
        it for you.

-- MOTD from http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu

4/25    Join me in comin' out '97, today noon, on soda wall.
        \_ What?  You're going to leave Soda hall?

4/10    Depending on your perspective, you may want to congratulate or
        send your condolences to your Fall 1997 CSUA Politburo:
         President: Sean Barni (seano)
         Vice Pres: Ben Scott (scotsman)
         Treasurer: Debbie Hoo (debbie)
         Secretary: Jon Kuroda (jon)
         Librarian: Saar Picker (saarp)
        Please do not send them sheep, flaming, inflatable, or otherwise.

3/31    SODA DONATION DRIVE!!!!! Each person donate $100 for a new Linux
        based Soda machine, and get big quota and unlimited life time
        access!
        \_ FreeBSD, you anti-berkeley republican nazi.
        \_ I might go for it if the Politburo is serious about it. -PeterM
        \_ Why would we want to replace a stable, 20-processor system with
           a crappy peecee running a crappy os with crappy disks and half the
           RAM?  Are you some kind of idiot?  Or is this just april fool's a
           day early?  (putting all the users & the OS on a single EIDE disk
           is probably the absolute stupidest part of this idea, besides not
           having as much disk space as current soda)
           \_ because linux supports SMP you shithead.
         \_ Dynix may have problems, but it's multi-processor support
          is *FAR* *FAR* better than anything on Linux.
        \_ if you want your account on a linux machine, go join the LUGheads
           and get an account from them.

3/31    HEY MELISSA BRANDT!~ !~~!
        I just thought I'd tell you that the web page you refer us to on
        your campaign flier (csua.berkeley.edu/~melissa) is bad publicity,
        my friend.  I mean, you are a lovely looking young woman, BUT...
        when I follow the link to find out why I should vote for you...
        well, you just don't....you know, deliver.   --maxmcc
        \_ "Lovely looking young woman" is all the reason I need to vote
           for her.  She's HOT!  -horny girlfriendless soda geek.
        \_ Oh yeah, Melissa, also you should check into the
           "The requested URL /~action/becs was not found on this server."
           message on the Autobahn page.
           PS.  BEN COATES FOR PRESIDENT --maxmcc
        \_ If I were you, melissa, I think
           I would file for a restraining
           order -- this max guy's after ya.
        \_ Everyone knows I'm Seano's.
           At least now that King
           Salomon is gone.   --maxmcc
             \_ So your only claim to
         fame is "I know seano and
         john?"  Lame.
        \_ I'd do 'er. -- every desperate soda geek
        \_ Why don't you all grow up and stop acting like a bunch of
           beavis and buttheads.
         \_ signed, Melissa ?!
        \_ Dibs on Beavis.
        \_ Huh huh, I think we just scored.
\_ Learn to chmod before running for the senate.
Received: from localhost (jayu@localhost) by http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.
12) with SMTP id TAA26552 for <melissa@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>; Mon, 31 Mar 1997

3/4    For those who didn't sign up on the web page, the CSUA office has been
         inundated with gazillions of free passes to the exhibit floor at
        UniForum (3/12-14 in Moscone).  Come take one - PLEASE!

2/18    Full/Part time sysadmin job, see /usr/local/csua/jobs/netcorps

2/13    Lost in CSUA office - 1 pair gold armani sunglasses.
        $100 reward.  --sky

2/12    Anyone seen my little HP Pen I left in the csua office?
        I left it there a week ago.                     -=Aubie

1/31    As per the minutes of the 1/31 politburo meeting, a draft copy
        of the CSUA constitution with various changes is available for your
        reading pleasure in /usr/local/csua/Constitution.

1/28    Student jobs for the 1997-1998 school year available.  See
        /usr/local/csua/jobs/UCB_Residential_Comp for details.  -icrew

        1/28 There's been talk of starting up the CSUA Donut Run again for
        CS projects. If anyone wants to get involved in some CSUA events
        (remember the CSUA?) then send me mail or come to p-buro. -seano
        \_ Can we just get the donuts? -- H. S.
        \_ ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD IS ALLOWED IN THE EE(CS) INSTRUCTIONAL
           LABS.   - FRANCISCO LOPEZ, SODA HALL POLICE DEPT
         \_BAD COP NO DONUT!
           \_ I AM FRANCISCO LOPEZ I AM GOD
             \_ Aren't you lucky he's working part time now
          while he finishes his MBA?  (Besides CSUA
          donut runs have always been OUTSIDE the labs,
          even when they were in the WEB.)
          \_ false.  i've done donut runs that were marginally
             in the labs.  don't forget the oj, btw.
              \_ If francisco is god, does that make sowings his
          high priest?
          \_ I urge you to consider the Writ of God, ie,
             /usr/lib/aliases:
             root-in-charge-of-ass-kicking: sowings
          \_ sowings is his bitch.
            \_ no, sowings is his biatch.

1/25    Politburo meetings will be held on Thursdays at 5:30pm, in 337 Soda.

1/8     thread rearranged. I have a "solution"
        the draft says "Eligibility to Use Campus Email"
        CSUA will just have to restrict /usr/lib/sendmail
        for use by students only.  Alumni cant use email... wheee!!!
         \_ Members of group "alumni" will also be forbidden from
            using trn/tin/pine/etc. as newsgroups are defined as
            a form of e-mail by the policy.

        \_ YOU LOSE.  UCB HAS BANNED ALL ALUMNI ACCOUNTS ON ALL
         *.BERKELEY.EDU MACHINES EFFECTIVE 1/1/97.  (Be
         prepared to say goodbye to your soda accounts soon.)
        \_ Perhaps we could push for some kind of precedent that would
           allow alumni organizations to allow alumnis accounts for the
           sole purpose of conducting University-related discourse?
         \_ Don't forget about all the job recommendations and
          general advice/wisdom to be gotten from alumni.
          If the CSUA kills my Berkeley account, then I
          won't have much of a link to current Berkeley
          students.
          \_ The CSUA doesn't want to remove alumni accounts.
             We know alumni are good.  If we are forced to it
             will only be because everything else we've tried,
             including appeals to the Chancellor have failed.
             This isn't over yet - it hasn't even started.
         \_ Darn.  I wish I had gone to Stanfurd.  The graduates
          there get accounts at http://alumni.stanford.org.
          But then again, they give money to the school.
          If IS&T won't let me have an alumni account,
          I won't give money to the school.  I know at
          Davis you pay a flat fee of $500 or so to
          get lifetime alumni library privileges,
          discounts, and maybe an e-mail account too?
          Is there something like this from the
          Cal Alumni Association?  --pcjr
          \_ The alumni association uses the campus net
             connection and is also prohibited from giving
             out alumni accounts.  They will set you up with
             a deal with Netcom though.  -alanc-
           \_ What is the deal with Netcom though?
            Can one choose an ISP?
            Not having a Berkeley acct kinda
            defeats the purpose of alumniship,
            if you ask me.  --pcjr
         \_ For those who think this is a hoax, look at
            http://uas.berkeley.edu:7355/emailpol/elig.html
            and see if you can find any way to allow alumni
            accounts given the limitations there.
           \_ "Departments may provide email service to contractors,
        independent consultants, or other qualifying
        individuals for the sole purpose of conducting their
        business with the University."
        How about we all become Brian Harvey's personal
        consultants. Unspecified tasks to be done, of course.
        And we would work for free. -- lars
         \_ we won't have to get rid of soda alumni accounts,
            we just have to give a timeline for getting rid
            of them, say 100 years after graduation..
            \_ Get a clue, if you do that, IS&T will simplely close
        the loophole very quickly.
         \_ What might this mean for majordomo mailing lists run off
            CSUA?  Is this an inappropriate use of "campus email"? -stevie
         \_ Not as far as anyone can find in the policy.
          \_Is soda.csua "owned or operated by the University or any of
            its sub-units"?  If not, or if it's not well-defined, I don't
            see what the fuss is about.  It seems like the documents are
            too vague for IS&T to have a point. -stevie
         \_ IS&T has stated they consider any and all machines
            connected to the campus network to be subject to this
            policy, whether the University "owns" them or not. -alanc-
        \_ Why?  --- yuen
         \_ Because alumni don't give money to IS&T and they're
           jealous of all the other places on campus alumni do
                  get money (and they just figured out they can screw
           over the rest of the campus this way)
           \_ I thought CSUA is not under IS$T.  Maybe they don't
              even like the fact that non IS$T machines are using
              campus ethernet.  --- yuen
          \_ IS&T runs the campus network - they make the
             policies everyone connected to the network
             (including the CSUA and people's home computers
             using Home-IP or in-room dorm connections) must
             follow.   -alanc-
           \_ So I can't allow my alumni friends to use
           my computer?  Golly.  hahahhahahahhah
            \_ Not if they're using
             UCB's net connection.

1/8     So when is CSUA going to remove all alumni accounts, or do
        I have to mail to IS&T to tell on the CSUA?
        \_ The policy has not yet been implemented, in any case.
        \_ Look at the policy VERY carefully.  Notice something written in
           big letters?  IT'S JUST A DRAFT YOU MORON, NOT ACTUAL POLICY YET.
         \_ Duh, "draft" = "will be policy unless someone changes it"
          \_ But it's not policy yet, so telling IS&T the CSUA
           isn't following it is pointless.
        \_ The policy allows the CSUA as much time as we need to implement it.
           If IS&T can tell everyone that the UCLinks will take 4 years to
           come into full compliance, so can we.
        \_ What! No alumni accounts???  That's it...UCB, don't expect any
           alumni donation.  To all UCB alumnus, do not donate $$$ to
           UCB unless UCB removes this policy.
         \_ The alumni they care about donating don't give a shit
            about free accounts - if you can give $100,000 to Cal,
            you don't worry about having to pay $14.95 a month for
            e-mail.  Nice try, but don't think it matters one bit.
         \_ Like you'd donate money to this place anyway.

1/6     TSHIRTS AHOY -- The illustrious Fall '96 CSUA tshirt is available to
        be purchased for a mere $3.  Since it is currently vacation, the way
        to get yours now is to mail lila, since who knows when there will be
        appropriate bodies in the office.
        (description of shirt in /usr/local/csua/tshirt)

01/03   Can outdated files in /usr/local/csua/housing/ be cleaned out?  --chris
        \_ thanks, scotsman!  --chris
        \_ how about $csua/jobs...

12/17  News flash, Berkeley team wins world netrek championship.
        \_ You know it! You tell the story! You tell the whole
           damned world this is bear territory!!!
         \_ Many thanks to the CSUA for supporting netrek for all these
            years.  We couldn't have done it without you.  -tom

12/5    The CSUA sends out heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones
        of those who were condemned to service in the name of the CSUA tonight:
         President:  seano
         Vice-President:  jon
         Treasurer:  yaroslav
         Secretary:  tmonroe
         Librarian:  saarp

12/16   The Politburo will be having another meeting this Tuesday, 12/17, at
        6:00pm, 337 Soda.  ASUC Sponsored, Wheelchair Accessible, and Announced
        On Very Short Notice(tm).

11/15   Haas business school is looking for HTML coder type person with good
        PR skills.  See /usr/local/csua/jobs/Haas -dbushong

11/11   Shameless job advertising in /usr/local/csua/jobs/NetForce
        At the moment we need sysadmin-types, but there are many
        positions available. - pmcnab
        \ chmod it!
          \_  Done.  Been a long week already. - pmcnab

11/13   The CSUA tshirt for the fall 96 semester has been designed.
        The design and price will be posted soon.  Watch for more info.
        To reserve a shirt, mail tshirt-request@csua

11/1    Jobs for geeks at NetSource, a web site builder.
        See /usr/local/csua/jobs/netsource and don't mail me --dpassage
         \_ chmod it

10/31   Due to lack of interest in organizing one, the 3rd Annual CSUA
        Halloween Party has been cancelled in favor of watching the B5
        Season Finale at Nick's Place.  (You can still wear a costume
        there if you like though.)
        \_ Someone should probably warn Nick about this...

10/26   Pager found in the office -- it's a black Motorola/PageNet model.
        Stickers on the back say "800 087 4831" and "313 9046".  Alphanumeric
        display, arrow keys, and a little belt-clip holster thingie.  Claim
        it in the CSUA office before I go to dinner (~6:00pm) or contact me
        if it's yours.  -- tmonroe

10/16   Anyone with suggestions about social activies they'd like to see
        come to fruition; email me about them. --anitac
        \_ CSUA orgy.  CSUA strip joint.
           \_ We should at least make it a demonstration of safer
              sexual practices.  What scares me is that this may
              actually improve the department's view of us. -- tmonroe
        \_ How about a dunk tank for the politburo, only we use HCl instead
           of H2O      \_ H2SO4
           \_ Who are you, bitch? --politburo mafia thug
        \_ Co-ed naked programming contest.
        \_ Collaborative authoring of interactive science fictions. -- cmlee
        \_ Lets hold a "Lynch the Politburo" Halloween Party!  Blood, guts,
         and dead idiots from the politburo everywhere!

10/8    Casual 1-year P/A I appointment for a WWW project manager for the
        Biosciences Division of L&S available.  See /usr/local/csua/jobs/LSCR.

10/9    Up there it says: Pot luck so bring real food or expect to chip in $.
        Why should people have to pay when the CSUA has tons of money?  I'm
        sure you could get smurf to send up money in time...
        \_ are you joking?  i think it would be silly for CSUA to use the
           $ it has to pay for PHREEPHOOD for members when it could use the $
           on things like hardware and buying books for the library --oj

10/9    The networks in Soda Hall that the CSUA computers are connected to
        will be down at times between 6am & 8am Sunday morning October 13.

10/2    Sysadmin position available at Active Software, inc.  See:
        /usr/local/csua/jobs/Active -eric
        \_ I checked with our chairman, and the position includes equity
        in the company -eric

10/5    Geoworks Info Session Wed 10/9 5-7pm at 120A Bechtel.  Lots of
        different positions.  See /usr/local/csua/jobs/Geoworks or
        http://www.geoworks.com  --- yuen

10/4    The CSUA has been asked to nominate undergraduate students for
        various CS department committees, including Computer Resources,
        Student Awards, and Undergraduate Study/Curriculum.  If you are
        a CS student (regardless of official major) interested in serving
        on any of these committees, send mail to politburo for more info.

9/27    If you spend time in the CSUA office, you are under obligation to
        clean up after yourself; i.e., THROW YOUR TRASH AWAY.

9/14    Please don't forget to return library books back to the CSUA

9/9     Politburo meetings are Tuesdays, 6:00pm, in 337 Soda.  When we're
        not busy having general meetings, of course.  Whether it's a general
        meeting or a politburo meeting, it is ASUC sponsored and wheelchair
        accessible.

1/17    Mail root for -administrative- questions. For assistance, mail help.

                       PUBLIC MESSAGES BELOW THIS LINE
       [See also: /usr/local/csua/jobs/* & /usr/local/csua/housing/*]

7/23    If you would like to see the CSUA not give away a nice new machine
        that would make a *MUCH* better and *MUCH* more reliable web server
        than the current very broken machine being used for these services,
        mail politburo@csua and say "Don't give the new web server away!"
        \_ I think the csua has plenty of machines, but
           most of them are crap I wouldn't inflict on anyone. -danh
        \_Or, consider actually  finding out what's going on before doing
          something you really don't know much about.
         \_ so post the mail to http://ucb.org.csua or a /usr/local/csua
          file so people CAN find out about it
        \_ Better yet, attend the sunday politburo meeting.
         \_ Maybe it should be announced so people know about it
            (and people are much more likely to show up if you tell
             them what's going to be discussed so they know it's not
             just a "sit around and waste time" meeting)
          \_ but all politburo meetings are a waste of time!
        \_ I've been reading the Motd for years, and in all that time I've
           never read anything that has pissed me off enough to waste
           other peoples time by adding to the Motd.  The proposed alternate
           use of the computer in question is a good one, worthy of CSUA
           support.  If somone feels that CSUA members should not support
           this position there are appropriate forums (as explained above).
           Asking CSUA members to mail politburo in support of a position
           without even attempting to explain it is insulting to us all.
           WE ARE NOT SHEEP! -diran
           \_ baaaaa
        \_ And mail stoptien@asucb.org while you're at it!!!!1!!!!1!!!
           WE SHALL NOT BE OPPRESSED!!1!!!
        \_ I find it really weird that the CSUA wouldn't want to have such
           a nice solid machine for their own use.  I can throw in an extra
           6 gigs of disk and have the machine at the CSUA anytime you're
           ready for it.  We used to use it as a file server and as a CPU
           server at a different time.  It should easily handle all the
           ftp, DNS, www, and file serving functions of the csua.  Why
           is the csua trying to bite the hands that feed it?  This is the
           third donation from us, if you don't need this machine, then you
           won't need the 4th, 5th, 6th, etc donations either, I'd guess.
           Maybe its just because this is summer, but this isn't the sort
           of reaction I expected.  (I certainly did *not* intend for this
           to turn into a csua flame war, sorry about that.)  -reiffin
         \_ never underestimate the shortsightedness & stupidity
          of the csua

6/29    The next CSUA Bike Ride will be Sunday, 7/7.  Mail ride-bike-request
        for details, or to be placed on the mailing list.

6/19    If you know someone who should be added to /usr/local/csua/people,
        please mail secretary@csua about it.

6/21    If you have a key to the CSUA office, please add your name to
        /usr/local/csua/office_keys

6/28    The next CSUA Politburo meeting will be Saturday, July 6, at
        8:00pm, in 337 Soda.  (Unless something else comes up.)

5/4     New system administrator job open at LucasArts.  Look in
        /usr/local/csua/jobs/LucasArts.  -mogul

5/6     If you'd like to be on the new CSUA racquetball mailing list,
        send mail to hinder-request.  --agee

4/30    meet the new Fall 1996 CSUA politburo:

        president:        Julie S. Lin    (jsl@csua)
        vice-president:   Rachel Yotter   (raytrace@csua)
        treasurer:        Lila Tene       (lolly@csua)
        secretary:        Tony Monroe     (tmonroe@csua)
        librarian:        Ben Scott       (scotsman@csua)

2/12    CSUA BAGG run, this wednesday (St. Valentine's Day)
        Be there or be a right-angled rhombus!

1/17    Looking for a job?  Check out /usr/local/csua/job.
        Need a lab partner?  Want to switch sections?  See who is taking
        what in /usr/local/csua/classes

2/07    The CSUA President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer have
        resigned.  danh is now Acting President and will be holding a General
        Meeting next week to confirm or deny new politburo appointments.
The nominees are:
        president: jwang
         vice-president: lila
          secretary: ryan
           treasurer: lolly
        See http://ucb.org.csua for details.

2/08    CSUA Meeting, February 13th, Tuesday, 7pm, 343 Soda Hall lounge,
        I couldn't reserve the auditorium. -- danh

3/4     /usr/local/csua/antique now has some old old CSUA historical files...
        (I moved them over from the csua@cory account) -boss

3/4   can whoever took the 2nd csua office wristpad please return it?
        Thanks  --  The people who use the office machines
        \_chill, it's on the monitor near the lightsw -aaron

3/1     Anyone want to go to qzar tonight?  I remember playing that one time
        the whole CSUA got together and played, it was very neat and I want to
        try it again.  Mail me.  -mlee

2/11    Mail ron if you are interested in the CSUA Racquetball Tournament.

2/21    Politburo meetings are Tuesdays at 5 PM in the CS Undergrad Lounge.

2/11    After last semester's CSUA Racquetball Tournament debacle,
        we are trying to organize a more structured tourny.  Anyone
        who is interested in taking part, please mail ron@csua.

2/9     bh came into the CSUA office today to tell us that there have been
        complaints about lots of noise coming from the CSUA office.  He
        wants us to keep it down.

2/9     bh came into the CSUA office today, and wanted to tell me that there
        have been complaints about lots of noise coming from the CSUA
        office.  I think he was referring to the screaming and cursing that
        was happening here earlier during a doosh fest, and the fact that
        Zep was blared quite loudly as well.  He wants us to keep it down,
        which I think we should.  I asked him to go to Q-Zar, and he said he
        gets enough exercise walking up and down Hearst.  --mogul

2/7     Add your t-shirt ideas to /usr/local/csua/t-shirt.

1/22    See the files in /usr/local/adm/policies for info on CSUA policies.

1/22    If you'd like to help work on the CSUA mud, send  mail to fl-request.

1/24    Politburo meetings are now on Tuesdays @ 5pm in the CSUA office.
        - Except this Tuesday, 2/14, because of the upcoming General Meeting.

1/20    If you are interested in helping develop the CSUA mud, then mail
        fl-request.  --mlee

1/16    Anyone who is interested in helping develop the unofficial
        CSUA mud, then please mail:  fl-request
        with your real life name, mud name, experience with muds/role-playing
        systems, and experience developping muds.  This is slightly based off
        of RO, which is based off of Silly, which is based off of Diku.
        Anyone and everyone is welcome, even those who are inexperienced.
             -mlee
        \_ If it's sactioned to run on a CSUA machine, how is it not official?
         \_ figlet runs on a CSUA machine...does that make it official?
        \_ It has only been sanctioned to be developped on a CSUA machine,
        not actually run.   -mlee

1/16    Politburo meetings are Tuesdays, 4-5 PM.  The first politburo
        meeting will be Tuesday, 1/17.

1/14    If you would be interested in holding CSUA office hours, send
        mail to office-hours-request@soda.

12/9    The Unofficial Computer Science Undergraduate Association Adam Glass
        Memorial End of Semester Beer Bash is currently scheduled for
        Wednesday at 7:00 pm in/around the office.
        (Not ASUC or CSUA sponsored, but is wheelchair-accessable). - danh
        \_ someone get the csua cory account password so we can all DOOSH
        \_ 5 player griljor, dude. -danh

12/11   Mr. Ali, have you done ANYTHING immature since you've been elected???
        I'm really getting sick of your behaviour. - danh
        \_ Actually I'm sure he has, but he still hasn't given me Doom.-danh
        \_ I will squish you.  - danh
        \_ what's wrong with immature behavior, or should we sit around
           and watch 60 minutes all day? - danh
        \_ he's not vp until next semester, let him get it out of his system
        \_ I dunno, don't think he's posting all the "I will squish you"s
                                                                \_ danh
        \_ people are such whiners around these here parts - danh
            \_ its part of a long CSUA tradition. - danh
        \_ Ali is FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE. - danh
        \_ 1. Sign your name. - danh
           2. Name what I've done that hasn't pleased you. - danh
          *3* Prepare to be squished. - danh
                        - danh

All I have by way of response is this:

        http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

How about a motd-poll:

== Which motd is better?

A) http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
B) http://colnet.cmhnet.org

== Where can you go for con-wall-sations?

A) http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (telnet port 9255 or finger lwall)
B) http://colnet.cmhnet.org

== Who has danh?

A) http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
B) http://colnet.cmhnet.org

== Who has a proper name record?

A) Server:  http://nexus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Address:  128.32.138.82

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Address:  128.32.43.52

B) Server:  http://nexus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Address:  128.32.138.82

*** No address (A) records available for http://colnet.cmhnet.org

== Which is the most abused program at colnet?

A) fortune | pnews
B) gcc

== Which is the most abused program at soda?

A) wallall
B) sed

== ?

A) psb
B) !psb

== foodP

A) #t
B) #f

== Which is more GNAR, SHORT FOR GNARLY?

A) http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
B) colnet

Score: 1 point for each A answer, -1 for each B answer,
0 for each left blank.

Scale:     >9 : you need a remedial math course
         =9 : WALL_WARRIOR! WALL_WARRIOR!
         =8 : echo `whoami` is abusing root\!
         =7 : Dynix Object Oriented SHell
         =6 : spam?
         =5 : mlee has a hot and inflamed bootie
         =4 : try again, bchoi
         =3 : What? Soda's down again?
         =2 : coganman. `nuff said.
         =1 : ronk ronk ronk
         =0 : bitter, dour old naysayer. "Doosh"
         =-1 : twink
         =-2 : twink++
         =-3 : achoi
         =-4 : dickyleeP
         =-5 : ObYerMom
         =-6 : Do not pass go, do not recieve fin. aid.
         =-7 : cs150
         =-8 : finals
         =-9 : IS&T

All scores > 5 get a free packet of SECRET SAUCE.

Contact dennisc for more info.

11/12   I set up a Help Sessions home page on http://xcf/help-sessions.html;
        I'd appreciate it if people could look at it and give me any
        suggestions/corrections they may have. -boss
         \-well, without looking at it i have one suggestion:
        put it on www.csua. since i have to assume that the reason to do this
        was not self-evident, i shall spell it out: in the future, it is not
        clear that the person who will run the help sessions will be a xcf
        memeber, or even if the xcf will exist by then. however, it is almost
        certain that the help director will be a csua member and that the
        csua will still exist. so unless the xcf is willing to give access
        to the help directory, member or not, to avoid changing the help
        session url, you should "fix" it at www.csua. --psb
        \_ The page was put on the XCF and not the CSUA for the simple reason
           that at the time when I was writing the page, soda was down and the
           XCF was not.  Now that the page is on the XCF, I feel no especial
           urge to move it until it becomes a problem.  Since it's not very
           likely that either the XCF or myself will disapear suddenly, it
           shouldn't be a problem to move it if and when it becomes an issue.
           At the moment, however, I don't consider it an issue.  -boss
        \_ I 100% guarantee that, barring significant disaster, the XCF
           will be here for YEARS to come.   -- Marco
           \-psb == significant disaster for the XCF
             \_ No, you misunderstand - there would have to be a significant
         disaster to ME before the XCF will stop existing. -- Marco
         \_ that can be arranged
            \_ But it won't be, so STFU.   -- Marco
        \_ So how long _do_ you plan to be an undegrad, marco?

9/26    Politburo Meetings are Mondays at 2 P.M. in 343 Soda Hall.

        http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

7/26    The fateful LAST DAY of the CSUA's occupancy of Evans Hell!

        Soda is going down TODAY, this afternoon, maybe this evening.
        If you have any important files, we suggest you get them backed
        up elsewhere NOW.  We don't plan on losing anything, but we can't
        guarantee against some disaster during the move.  ("Um, sorry, we
        knocked over your refrigerator when 'Big Ed' was pulling it from the
        truck" "You Did WHAT??!  That was our computer!!! AUGGH!!!")

        THIS WEEK, the week of July 26th, http://soda.berkeley.edu will be taken
        down and moved to the new Soda Hall building.  This means that the
        machine could possibly be down for about a week.  Mail will not
        bounce.  We've made arrangements for our mail to be handled.
        When we come back, we'll be known as :
        http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu (w/ a new IP address yet to be determined)
        http://soda.berkeley.edu will only be around for 6 months after the move.

        And remember, if you plan on receiving important or time critical mail
        during the time soda's down, have the sender send it somewhere else!
        .forward files won't work!

7/5     **********READ THIS**********  (or else you lose)
        ***THE MOVE HAS BEEN MOVED***
        On the week of July 26th, http://soda.berkeley.edu will be taken down
        and moved to the new Soda Hall building.  This means that the
        machine could possibly be down for about a week.  Mail will not
        bounce.  We've made arrangements for our mail to be handled.
        When we come back, we'll be known as :
        http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu (w/ a new IP address yet to be determined)
        http://soda.berkeley.edu will only be around for 6 months after the move.

7/20    soda is going down monday morning-afternoon, possibly
        evening if things work out that way.  Expect it to be
        down until at least Friday.  The CSUA machines are going
        down sunday evening.  Dont send mail to root asking when
        soda is going to come back up.

6/13    I'm rlogin'ing to soda and get rlogind: Host address mismatch. Did
        soda change its IP address or hostname or what? This didn't
        happen on Friday.
        \_ yes.  soda did change its hostname.  try:

         rlogin http://i-am-a-stupid-pansy.berkeley.edu in the future
         \_ Not http://zuul.berkeley.edu?
        \_You guys make a good case against anarchal democracy.

6/13    Anyone interested in a CSUA | beach party? It's time to head out to
        Stinson!!! Let's go, it's summer!!!
        \-what happend to vball? i thought there was some interest in playing
        in front of bechtel.
         \_ Coed naked volleyball...haven't I seen that on a t-shirt
            somewhere before?

6/10    The next CSUA Bike Ride is Sunday, 6/12, leaving evans at 11AM.
        Mail ride-bike-request for more info.

6/10  Are there two CSUA machines? Sorry, don't go to meetings
        \_ No, there are only the five machines.

motd(5)                Soda User's Manual                 motd(5)

NAME
            motd - Message of the Day

DESCRIPTION
            The file /etc/motd is automatically displayed to users when
            they log in.  The first section consists of official mes-
            sages from Soda staff & CSUA officers, while the second part
            is a public forum for messages from any Soda user.

            Messages in each section are listed in newest to oldest
            order.  An old message is deleted when people decide they no
            longer want to see it.  Responses to a message follow
            directly after it, and should have "lines" made of charac-
            ters such as | and \ and intelligent indenting to make it
            easier to follow which message is responding to which.
            Entries are often taken more seriously if they are signed,
            although anonymous messages have their place.

EXAMPLES
          2/31 Soda will be shut down and sold for parts next week.
               We hope to use the money to buy a Nintendo for the CSUA.
               \_ What?  What sort of idiots would do this to us?
                   |     \_You twink.   This is the public motd.
                   |        Anyone can make up any lies they want here.
                   \__ If you actually bothered to show up to politburo
                    meetings you'd have a voice in these things. -phillip
                    \_ If they weren't during my physics lab, I would go.

          2/30 Philcompress 2.0 installed.  There are no bugs, only features,
               so don't bother mailing me about them. -phillip

FILES
            /etc/motd.official
          Official announcements from Soda staff & CSUA officers.

            /etc/motd.public
          File that any soda user can edit to place a message in
          the motd.

            /etc/motd
          The file actually seen by users - generated from the
          motd.public and motd.official by the _ m_ t_ d command and
          automatically regenerated every few minutes by _ c_ r_ o_ n.

            ~/.hushlogin
          File that tells many shells not to automatically
          display the motd on login.  Many people use this and
          add a command like "less /etc/motd" to their .login
          file.  If nothing else you should at least have some-
          thing in your .login to view the motd.offical if you
          have a .hushlogin, since the announcements there may be

Printed 5/16/94         http://soda.berkeley.edu                       1

motd(5)                Soda User's Manual                 motd(5)

          very important to your account and Soda Staff reserves
          the right to ignore any question you mail to them for
          which the answer is in the motd.

NOTES
            This is pretty unique to soda.  Most machines have an motd
            devoted solely to important system announcements.

            There is no protection against two users editing the
            motd.public at the same time.  If your editor complains the
            file has changed since it loaded it, the polite thing to do
            is not save your changes, but change the updated file so you
            don't delete the other person's message.

SEE ALSO
            alt.motd Usenet newsgroup.

5/12    The Unofficial CSUA End-of-Semester Adam Glass Memorial Beer Bash
        & Final Episode of Startrek Party is scheduled to take place on
        May 23, 7:00 PM, in the 'old' CSUA office.
            \_ That's 343 Evans, right?
        \_ Party on, dudes!

BBBBBEEEEEEEEYYYYYOOOOOOTTTTCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!111!!

5/9     I wanted to thank all the CSUA members that came out to support the
        CSUA and their ASUC Senators at the Business Management Board meeting
        tonight.  We made a lot of headway with the university, and we have
        secured the funds which will allow the CSUA and OCF to recieve large
        increases in their budgets for next year. --bonds

1/22    Politburo meetings are still Fridays at noon in 238 Evans Hall.

                  ***UNOFFICIAL PUBLIC MESSAGES BELOW***
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
             TERI SMITH TYLER, Plaintiff, v. JAMES CARTER, WILLIAM
             CLINTON, ROSS PEROT, AMERICAN CYANAMID, IRON MOUNTAIN
            SECURITY CORPORATION, DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, IBM,
               DAVID ROCKERFELLER, ROCKERFELLER FUND, BCCI, NASA,
                                  Defendants.
                               92 Civ. 8658 (CSH)
           To summarize the  facts presented  in the  Tyler  case, the  plaintiff
           asserted  that she was  a cyborg and  received her information through
           "proteus."   Among  other things, the  plaintiff alleged  that  former
           President Jimmy Carter  wasthe secret head  of  the Ku Klux Klan,  and
           that he, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot are responsible for the murder of
           at least ten million black women in concentration camps.
           \_What?
           \_ Pro.teus \'pro--.t(y)u:s, 'pro-t-e--*s\ n [L, fr. Gk Pro-teus] : a
              sea god in Greek mythology capable of assuming different forms
           \_ Tell us something we don't know.
           \_ la la la

4/28    All Hail our new CSUA officers!
        President: chiapet    Vice-President: smurf
        Secretary: alissa     Treasurer:      rcham
        Librarian: ekim

4/24    Ron narrowly defeats Hob for the CSUA Racquetball title.
        Details in http://ucb.org.csua

4/6     Let's see...those of us who DON'T spend thousands of hours
        around 238 Evans were wondering if there are any terminals wired
        directly into this soda thing...especially X stations.  Heh heh,
        those are cool.  A simple (HONEST) yes or no will suffice.
        \_ There are two Xterms in the office which can be a term to soda. - M
          \_ There are NO Xterminals wired directly to soda.  There are the
         CSUA office machines, however, which can function as X
         terminals to soda. They're just one router-hop away, though.
          -ERic
        \_ There are, five color X terminals, but you're too much of
           a loser to use them.
         \_ So I don't get to know where they are?  How thoughtful
            of you.
           \_ Five color Xterms for Soda? HAH! I'll tell you what they
              are: Tsunami, Cyclone, Bigbang, Headcrash, Monsoon   -- Marco
              \_^flood^cyclone, no? (Whoops, yes - M)

4/4     ph installed on soda as well.  Now we just have to get the university
        to make some useful information available... - norby
        \- now who's gonna install the help system (or maybe not...RTFM)

3/14    Office Hours listed in /usr/local/csua/officehours.

BTW --> http://YMCA.NAMBLA.ORG == http://soda.berkeley.edu
        NAMBLA == CSUA

        http://soda.berkeley.edu
             A service of the CSUA

3/6     Hey, what happened to that raquetball racket that used to be in
        the CSUA???
        \-any csua runners? interested in running a few miles maybe 2x a wk?

3/4     CSUA T-Shirts are going to happen soon! Suggestions/ideas
        due by March 11 to social@soda or dropped off in the office.

3/6     CSUA office hours forming now!  Mail to smurf if you can put
        in an hour or two a week.
        (See http://ucb.org.csua)

1/22    Politburo meetings are Fridays at noon. Anyone can attend, though.

Things below this line could be from anyone. Beware and be aware.
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

          Welcome to Soda Mark III

2/24    The donations are rolling in, but we could _always_ use more!
        Read ~dpassage/csua/hardware_fund for the whole scoop. --dpassage

           ***UNOFFICIAL PUBLIC MESSAGES BELOW***
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
           ***UNOFFICIAL PUBLIC MESSAGES BELOW***
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

3/4     CSUA T-Shirts are going to happen soon! Suggestions/ideas
        are due to social@soda or dropped off in 238 Evans
        by March 11.  Read ~amee/csua/tshirts for more info.

3/5     Deadline for the CSUA resume book for this semester and the Sumer
        is March 16th.  Get them in soon! Send all submissions to:
        resume-submit@soda

3/5     If you know a staff/faculty who might have an interesting mini-lecture
        that they'd be intrested in doing for the CSUA mini-lecture series next
        semester, get into contact with mini-lecture-series@soda (mls@soda)

2/10    Please add your resume's to the CSUA resume' book!
        The sooner you get it in, the more people will see it.  Also,
        you might want to submit one, even if you are not looking for a job,
        just to get your name out.  submissions and questions to
        resume-submit@soda

1/22    Politburo meetings are Fridays at noon.

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

                       welcome to SLODA, mark 0.38
\_ Is everyone invited?
   \_ What does "public" mean to you?
        \_ 1. pub.lic: Having easy access to yermom.
        \_ % grep -i public  /etc/motd.official
           %

                          Welcome to Soda Mark III
                            CSUA Wonder Machine
                  (read: a Pinto without hard disk space)

Ali's Daily Quote from Life's Little Insturction Calendar:
----------------------------------------------------------
 "Read the ten books nominated each year for the ABBY Award."
        -Tue, Feb 8.

\_ Does anyone have a problem with me doing this?

) Friday February 11 noon lecture, 145 Dwinelle Hall
)
) The Information Highway Has Many Potholes
) by Barbara Simons, Chair, US Public Policy Committee, ACM

2/7     Help the CSUA continue its leadership in student-operated
        computing facilities: Donate to the CSUA Hardware Fund!
        Read ~dpassage/csua/hardware_fund for more info.

1/27    Since the CSUA meeting coincides with Da Bearz game, does anyone have
        an extra ticket to spare? I am looking to buy one for an unexpected
        visitor from out of town. Thanks. -dim

1/26   G1F H0ZER OF THE HOUR:  BLAKE!!!
        soda 240 /accounts/blake% ls
        archive/  biglog    flux/     mail/
        soda 241 /accounts/blake% df .
 Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity Mounted on
 /dev/zd4a             439106  387034    8161    98%   /usr4
        \_ Looks like his hour is over...
        \_ locate gif | wc -l
             882

1/26    Why is soda acting so slow this semester?  Everytime I log-on
        now-a-days, I have to wait for a minute or more to type in
        "mail" or "ls."  What's going on?
        \_ There's a jerk named 'ho' who the politburo has authorized
         to screw the machine.
           \_  I belive he was part of the deal that got us soda.
        \_ LEARN TO MOPE, YOU PROSTHETIC SPANKER.
           \_ Use yer "Caps Lock" key correctly, you utter moron.
         \_ read alt.fan.warlord, you clueless twink

1/22    Politburo meetings are Fridays at noon.

1/16    The first CSUA General Meeting of the semester will be held Thursday,
        January 27th at 7:00 PM in 608-7 Evans.

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         Welcome to Soda - Second Rate Playground of the CS Division
             "This is not yer mom's old machine."
        \_ congratulations you can steal jokes from David Letterman
           \_ congratulations, it's in quotes, dip.

11/13   Comments about sexy CSUA members should now be directed here,
        apparently.  Have a nice day.
          -brought to you by the CSUA Wet T-shirt committee

9/16    Politburo Meetings are now officially at 2PM Thursdays. - seidl

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
         Welcome to Soda Mark III, Go Soda, Go!

9/16    Politburo Meetings are at 2PM Thursdays. - seidl

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

8/28    Will there be any UNIX session for beginner and advance people
        like previous semester?  When and where will be?
        \_ Most likely.  It's not scheduled yet.  When it is scheduled,
           it will be in the motd.
            \- Cool.  Another example of CSUA ineptdness.  Has root
        messed up anything new toady?
        \_ No, it won't happen. You idiots don't deserve the effort.
        \- Another brilliant example of soda-user-stupidity.
           No wonder the CSUA, OCF, & XCF are all haivng problems
           trying to find enough people willing to put up with
           this crap and get help seessions put on.  Get up there
           and help or shut up.  The politburo is not the CSUA,
           all of us are.  Please come back when you get a clue.
           \- The CSUA politburo forms are elected representitives,
              the people that we elect to take care of the
              activities of the ourganization.  Thus, it is
              their fault that the help sesssions are not
              ourganized.  If they had been efficient enough
              to actually ask HELP, then you're argument would
              be valid, if I was not helping, but they did not,
              so you are not.
              \- And please note that only now afte rI have
          made fools of them does the politburo ask for
          aids.  Who are these people we elected?
          \_ actually, most of them were appointed after
             prior hozers resigned. Got a problem, run at
             the next election.  CSUA's got a longstanding
             tradition of whining and whining, but when
             given the opportunity of doing something about
             it, silence...

8/29    People who install stuff on soda no longer need to use a portion
        of their disk quota to do so.  /usr6/build is writable by group bin,
        and is specifically for building stuff that will be used by the
        soda populus (not your CS169 project).  /usr6/src is for storing
        copies of soda-specific source (not things you pulled off the net
        and ran make on).  If in doubt, read the READMEs in each directory.
        Stuff older than 3 days is now cleared out of /tmp by cron.

8/9     Did someone leave a roll of (used)FujiColor 400/24exp film in the csua?
        I lost a roll a while back and was wondering if this was mine. --psb

3/31    Just a reminder that things which appear below the dotted
        line could have been written by anyone, regardless of what
        signature appears on the end, and don't necessarily reflect
        what actual CSUA policy is.

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Cory Notes:

If you see an unattended package/backpack/padded envelope in the public
computing areas, leave it alone and call the building manager, Aleta Cook.

This is at the request of an admin-type-chick from upstairs.

There is a rash of mail bombs going off in academic institutions across
the country right now ... Cory Hall has been victimized twice in the past
(mid 80's).  There are rumors that the FBI actually believes this recent
wave is in fact related to the same source that caused the two bombings
in Cory in the past.

6/17    Dave stepping down is the best thing that happened to the CSUA since
        Mel graduated.

6/14    Did anyone successfully installed 2.2.7pre1 IRC ? Mine chokes
        when I try to compile it...
         \_ I wouldn't use any beta versions if I were u... -nevman
            (BTW, the latest REAL vershun be 2.2.6+)

Tired of soda?  Wish soda were more like uclink?  This command will make
soda behave exactly like uclink:

        exec rlogin uclink

5/12    Announcing the first CSUA Bike Ride Against IRC!  It is
        tentatively planned for June 5th starting at 10:00 AM.  There
        will be 3 routes ranging from an easy 15 miles to a challenging
        35.  If you are interested, or just want more information,
        mail tom.
        \_ Pardon my h0zerness, what's IRC?
        \_ It stands for Internet Relay Chat.  It acutally is good, for
           what it is, but there is a faction that wants to turn soda
           into an IRC server, which would be, in the opinion of many
           soda stalwarts, a Bad Thing.
         \_ Who the hell wants to run an IRC Server on Soda!!??
          \_ IRC Server?!?  C'mon... slow down other
        computers... not ours...  --nevman

        This event was inspired by, and planned over, /bin/wall.  Don't
        let them turn soda into Just Another Unix Machine.
        \_ Them should be HIM (Adam Glass).  The rest are just sheep
           who follow their fascist leader.
        \_ Is this against IRC itself, or just the idea of running a
           server on soda? - norby
        \_ It's against the idea of changing wall to IRC.
        \_ It's not going to change to IRC... don't be hysterical. --marco
        \_ Oh, excuse me, it's going to change to something that looks and
           works like IRC.
        \_ You mean another decision was made at the Politburo meeting
           concerning wallall besides reversing the syntax of the 'S' bit?
           Why is the elitist Politburo hiding this information?

5/12    All CSUA members are encouraged to show up at the ASUC
        Senate meeting tonight to protest the $100 funding
        allocated to us.  The meeting is at 7 in the Senate Chambers
        in Eschelman Hall.  The Senate Chambers are located on the
        ground floor of Eschelman.  Just walk in to the lobby and you'll
        see it.  If you have questions, mail me.  --hh

5/8     Adam Glass is the newest elite who believes that wallall should
        be deleted.  Do you think that it is acceptable for the elite to
        dictate what programs you may use?  wallall will be deleted on
        Monday after the Politburo meeting unless something is done.
        \_ no it won't, because adam's solution is extreme and everyone
           else agreed so, shannon.  but people ought to chill out and
           respect each other a bit while walling.  -george
         \what if i have no respect for someone outside wall-world --psb
         \_ That's censorship, which is to say restriction of
            a specific type of speech by those people who control
            the allocation of the resources for that speech.  Is
            that acceptable?
            \_ Um, actually, I don't think that's censorship.  If
        they control the resources, then they *control* *the*
        *resources*, and can do what they want.  Censorship
        is restriction of speech by someone who doesn't control
        the resource, like the government.  If you want soda
        to be un-managed, say so.
          \uh how do you censor if you dont have control? --psb
            \_ Yes.  There is no excuse for tolerating electronic
        harrassment in the name of free speech. -gwh
          \No, there is no reason for tolerating dumb speech
           in the name of george. When all you need to do is
           "electronically close you eyes" [wallall -n], its
           tough to make the case this is harassment.
           besides, wallall preserves ample records and witnesses
           if you want to make the case for harassment. --psb
        \_If you don't like elites making decisions, then we can throw
          this to the general membership.  Easy. -dpassage
         \_ RIght....the 20 or so people who attend CSUA general
            meetings aren't the elite, eh?
         \what do people think about re-writing the CSUA const
         to include a machine supervision cmte which will make
         policies for the machine(s) independent of the politburo,
         who will continue to run other csua activites. you could
         maybe have 1 person per 50 or 100 [or whatever] users ...
         this way this group will be reasonably representative of the
         membership ... the 5person ex-com certainly is not ...
         especially when they arbitrarily choose a bunch of their
         friends to help make policy at the exclusion of orthers.
          \_ you're just offended because you have no friends.
         and this group will presmable feel responsive to their
         "constituency" if they want to be re-relected.
         please send *me* input on this idea. --psb
         \_We could take the vote electronically. I'm working
           on a couple of ideas on how we could do this.-dpassage
           \-- You don't seem to understand.  You elected these
        bozos.  They can do whatever they want.  If they
        voted to turn off soda tonight and never turn it
        back on, they could do it.  A general meeting
        could overturn, but that's it.  [This actually
        sidesteps the issue that you DID NOT elect Adam
        Glass - because he is a friend of the politburo,
        he is CLEARLY getting preferential treatment.
        That is a problem for another day though].
        ^ Adam Glass, the CSUA's Hilary Clinton.
          What a concept.
           \_ More like our Stalin
        \_I don't see how Adam is getting special treatment.  He proposed
          a policy change.  I said we'd vote on it, and asked for public
          input.  Any other user is welcome to do the same.  And I'm not
          pretending that a Politburo meeting can be a general meeting;
          if opinion at the meeting is overwhelmingly one way (which it
          appears it is), then the status quo will remain.  If Adam wants
          to push it further, which is his right under our const., I'm
        \_ I am not at all convinced that free speech is more important
           than the cohesiveness of the Organization. -- Marco
         \-you're free to leave. i think free speech is more imp
           than your being a member.

5/8     At the CSUA Politburo meeting this Monday at 7pm in 236 Evans,
        Mr Glass intends to move that the CSUA shut off the walls on
        soda.  If you have an opinion on the subject either way, please
        show up.  If you can't make it, send your comments to me; I'll
        print them up and bring them to the meeting.  I especially
        encourage soda users who aren't normally involved in CSUA
        activities to participate in this decision. --dpassage

4/29    It is the Official Soda User Policy that you REAL name has
        to be the first thing in your soda finger info name field.
        --xxxxx

4/14    CSUA General Meeting on Monday, April 19, at 7:00 pm in Sibley
        Auditorium. Monday's agenda: voting on the Constitutional amendments.
        ASUC sponsored and wheelchair accessible. -- xxxxxxx

4/1     Director's cut of The Abyss showing at the UC tomorrow night.
        Apparently the ending of this one actually makes sense.
        Starts at 8:30, say meet in CSUA at about 7:30? --xxxxxxx

3/31    In addition to the latest available minutes, check out what the CSUA
        was doing as far back as 1982! New and old minutes are available in
        /usr/local/csua/minutes. -- jsjacob
        \_ wow! the CSUA actually did things! amazing!
           A midnight Evans stair run sounds interesting....

4/1  |  FBI Raid CSUA Office!!!! See http://ucb.org.csua for more info
            |  \_ Over 70 undergraduate CS students arrested on various charges
            |     of piracy, conspiracy, and electronic theft!  List available
            |     later tonight.  CSUA is starting a bail drive for them.  Send
            |     money to hob@soda, official bail treasurer and csua vacation manager.
            |

3/28    GENERAL MEETING -- Thursday, April 1, at 6:00 pm in 597 Evans.
        Topping the agenda: The future of the CSUA.
        ASUC sponsored and wheelchair accessible. -- jsjacob

3/31    Just a reminder that things which appear below the dotted
        line could have been written by anyone, regardless of what
        signature appears on the end, and don't necessarily reflect
        what actual CSUA policy is. --dpassage

*********** To turn walls ("Boredcasts") off, but leave ***********
***********    writes and talks on, type "wallall -n"   ***********
***********   To turn talks off, but leave writes and   ***********
***********        walls on, type "wallall -t"          ***********
*********** (Doesn't work with older versions of talk)  ***********
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
\_ Don't you mean "May you snort vivarin"?
        \-85 hours, 2 midterms, i presentation and 1000mg of caffeine
                and counting...

1/22    Politburo meetings are Fridays at noon. Anyone can attend, though.

Things below this line could be from anyone. Beware and be aware.
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

2/24    The donations are rolling in, but we could _always_ use more!
        Read ~dpassage/csua/hardware_fund for the whole scoop.
        Share and enjoy.  --dpassage

3/4     CSUA T-Shirts are going to happen soon! Suggestions/ideas
        due bt March 11 to socal@soda or dropped off in the office.

3/5     Deadline for the CSUA resume book for this semester and the Sumer
        is March 16th.  resume-submit@soda

3/5     If you know a staff/faculty who might have an interesting mini-lecture
        that they'd be intrested in doing for the CSUA mini-lecture series next
        semester, get into contact with mini-lecture-series@soda (mls@soda)

3/14    Office hours are on.  Check out /usr/local/csua/officehours
        for the schedule.  This week is kinda iffy whether the person
        will be there or not but next week they should be in full
        swing.