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- Welcome to the THC BBS H/P Files CD-ROM, formerly known as The Hackers
- enCyclopedia!
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- Before you start looking around the directories on this CD-ROM, there are a
- few things you need to know:
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- o Some of the files on this CD describe illegal activities. Whirlwind
- Software does not encourage actually carrying out any illegal
- activities. The files on this CD are for informational and discussion
- purposes only. If you choose (unwisely) to carry out any illegal acts,
- Whirlwind Software will not be held responsible.
-
- o Whirlwind Software does not hold a copyright on these files.
-
- I do have what is called a "compilation copyright" on the whole CD.
-
- You are allowed to redistribute most of the files on this CD
- individually, but you are not allowed to make and sell copies of the
- whole CD. All FILES.BBS and FILES.HTM files are copyrighted by me, as
- is the DOS browser.
-
- In most cases, the files are in the public domain or are freely
- redistributable. That's right, you can put this CD up on a BBS, on a
- Web site or even absorb it into some future CD of your own making -
- although the latter would leave you competing with a great many people.
-
- Of the remainder, they are either shareware (a form of copyrighted
- material in which wide-open distribution is encouraged) or, in the case
- of DPP, OCPP, Phrack Inc., and others - copyrighted and reprinted here
- with permission.
-
- Then there's the TAP digital archive - I had to think about that one
- before I even began the project. TAP was copyrighted, but who owns TAP
- today, 14 years after it stopped publication? Abbie Hoffman? Richard
- Cheshire? The Blitzkrieg BBS? For the answer, I turned to TAP's own
- notice which said, "movement groups may reprint without permission with
- TAP's address given with all credits." I certainly hope after 11 years
- of serving the H/P community, that THC qualifies as a movement group,
- and certainly moreso than that guy in New Jersey who sells photocopies
- of TAP for $100! I think you know who he's helping.
-
- I decided that in the spirit of spreading information that lets people
- help themselves, that it was not my right to scan TAP and put it
- online. It was my *duty*. I want to point out right here and now that
- I am not selling TAP reprints; I am *giving* *them* *away*. Everything
- on this CD is also available for free from my BBS and will be for as
- long as I can keep it running. By making this CD and selling it to
- you, I have saved you hundreds of dollars in long distance costs to
- download everything - and isn't evading phone costs one of the things
- TAP was about?
-
- There are also about 40 files or so (not counting the indexes and this
- file) which I, The Fixer, wrote myself over the years under various pen
- names and handles. In other words, I'm *not* a non-participating
- spammer who's just jumped into this for a fast buck. This CD contains
- everything Tommy's Holiday Camp BBS, has collected relating to Hacking
- over the last 11 years. Everything the users have uploaded, everything
- I've written, everything the BBS has traded with other BBSes.
-
- o This CD is BBS ready to the extent that a FILES.BBS exists in each
- directory. There is also a master file list (ALLFILES.TXT) and a
- directory index in the root directory of this CD. However, there's just
- no way that I can include file area configuration files for every BBS
- out there so I haven't included any. The files I've given you should
- be enough to derive a setup for nearly any decent BBS.
-
- o NEW for the '98 edition: If you are running MS-DOS (or an MS-DOS window
- in Windows) you can optionally explore the CD with the BROWSE.EXE
- program. It will let you read the text files, view the pictures, and
- will even offer to unzip ZIP, RAR and ARJ files to directories of their
- own!
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- o All of these files - and more - are available absolutely free on my
- BBS. Tommy's Holiday Camp is located in Victoria, B.C., Canada, and
- its phone number is: (250) 361-4549. Access is free and full at first
- logon. If you live in the United States, calling THC should cost about
- the same as calling any other out-of-state BBS - I understand Sprint's
- "Dime a Minute" rate includes calls to Canada. Most of our LD plans
- here in Canada are continent-wide. If you live in Europe or Asia, you
- will find that calling THC costs about the same as a call to the U.S.,
- and in some cases actually less! And if you live in Canada, well,
- like, G'day, eh, how 'bout them Leafs.
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- Tommy's Holiday Camp BBS - Shitloads of Text Files Online
- +1 250 361 4549
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- Compilation Copyright (C) 1998 Whirlwind Software
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