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Subject: Internet Worldwide Shutdown
The commission for Internet management and securities is notifying all
Internet system users of the world wide shutdown scheduled for February
28th. This agency has been overloaded with questions regarding the
upcoming closure. Therefore, we felt it necessary to take this action. It
is imperative that users understand the vital importance of the shutdown.
Users should completely disconnect their MODEMS from the telco jacks to
prevent static pulse compensators (SPC's) from entering their systems.
SPC's were developed to clean the Transcontinental Line Sectors (TLS's) of
lost file fragments stemming from lost or corrupt email and download
events. SPC's are routines that generate high voltages that erase the
bytes that cling to the sectors by utilizing timed electromagnetic shift
modulation. Should users forget to disconnect the twisted pair (RJ-32
jack) from their Modems, shock damage is certain to occur within the PC,
virtually destroying all circuitry in the system. Failure to heed these
warnings will surely result in damage estimates totaling hundreds, even
thousands of dollars.
Also note that on March 1st, users are encouraged to run the Internal
System Cleaning Routine PRIOR TO CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET! This routine
will perform much the same function as that performed on the TLS's only on
a much smaller scale and within the PC circuitry. Failure to execute the
routine could potentially effect future email and file downloads by
misfiring the digital pulses used to send these files through the MODEM,
thereby corrupting them and rendering the files useless.
The file, iscr.exe, may be obtained at
<http://www.itg.org/iscr/march1/index.html>. Please contact me by email if
you have any further questions.
On a final note, our servers have been working overtime in notifying
approximately 1.6 million users with registered email accounts around the
world. ITG asks that you the user pass on this vital information to those
who might not receive our notice. And remember, the Internet will be a
faster, more responsive medium for your efforts.
End Transmission: <01/24/97-----00:49:18>