[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation Front

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:14:48 +0000 (UTC),
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

>In article <espg88tnbr6je54mp7qgc5iathfbe0o1iq at 4ax.com>, Subcommandante
>XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> writes: 
>
>> They can be downloaded from the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup:
>> 
>> alt.binaries.warez
>> 
>> https://www.binsearch.info/?q=%22-VLF%22
>> 
>> And examined, at your discretion, though the VMS Liberation Front make
>> no presumption that any of the comp.os.vms collegiate would be inclined,
>> by ethic, to so do.
>
>I don't know who this crank is, but he shows a huge lack of 
>understanding of the VMS mindset.  We VMS enthusiasts do not download 

Herr Helbig,

Whilst we were not anticipating a response from you, we were expecting
one; anyway thank you for reviewing our 35th Anniversary Communique!

We (there are two of us) are cranky, very cranky, but are not cranks.

The VLF does have a MANiFESTO, but that does not make us cranks, OTOH:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/manifesto-coming-along-fine,750/

At least we finished ours in time for 25.10!

>stuff from warez groups like script kiddies (and we know how to spell).  
>We might, and do, criticize HP's and other owners' handling of VMS, but 
>we seek understanding, not revolt, most of all because we know that 
>there is no right to VMS and that the hobbyist programme exists merely 
>because of good will.

The VLF acknowledge the good will and good efforts of those within and
without HP that have prosecuted the cause of the Hobbyist program all
these years, no criticism from us at all, rather deep respect!

There is nothing to 'understand', the motivations of certain factions in
HP management and their abuse of the VMS asset is transparent to us, in
the deconstruction.

Do you have any HP shares Herr Helbig? - If not, we'd recommend
cultivating a tranche, become a part-owner of HP, and start to sort out
the management problem.

IIRC, you work for a Stock Exchange that uses VMS for their BCS?

Have a few 35th Anniversary Beers with some of the movers and shakers at
the Exchange, encourage the company to invest in HP shares, and become
part-owners of HP, very angry owners, since the viablity of their VMS
systems is under siege and start to sort out the management problem.

It might be a close shave, but it can be done.

Take a leaf out of the book of Victor Kiam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Rand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pEOgMt9g8

HP does not exist for the convenience of Microsoft.

>Remember what happened to the PDP hobbyist license and why?
>
>Maybe this Ché wannabee is actually someone intent on destroying VMS and 
>hoping that someone will actually react to his nonsense.

1. We do not seek praise.

2, We welcome critiques of our manifesto and methods, so long as it is
reflected and refracted, with zero-bullsh%t analytical rigour, upon the
last two decades of VMS history and, in particular, the last decade.

>His last revelations were posted elsewhere, on a server of not the best 
>repute, but nevertheless even from there were removed, presumably due to 
>some complaint.

There is always someone from the peanut gallery!

However we are curious as to what you've sleuthed, since we only post
VLF Communiques to comp.os.vms, and do not cross-post anywhere else.

>Someone said that on the internet, no-one knows you're a dog, but in 
>this case we do.  Wuff wuff!

http://chrisabraham.com/2009/01/05/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-a-dog/

With reference to our releases posted in alt.binaries.warez:

If one is not familiar downloading from Usenet Binaries Newsgroups, this
is a good guide:

http://www.slyck.com/Newsgroups_Guide

Always download from the Usenet Binaries Newsgroups using an SSL
tunneling enabled service, always download the PAR recovery files as
well.

If you use Usenet pretty much exclusively for text based discussions,
then consider also a pre-paid service such as what Astraweb, as one
example, provides:

http://www.news.astraweb.com/plans.html

There is no time expiration of the credits, only download quota
exhaustion.

If you (fair enough) distrust such releases as ours, but wish to
critically and forensically examine them anyway, but not use them, then
download, unpack, but do not install, and check the components using
these web-tools:

https://www.virustotal.com/
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

You are looking for consistent, meta-consistent, detection of any
threats; though the VLF advises that our releases are not trojan horses
for windows root-kits.