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[LOCKED] Strange Email from subjecte@sen5241.net
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MageSteff
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Caterpillar wrote:
SUBJECTE 5241 PREFIX SEN:

...

SCHEDULED RELEASE: 2004-8-14

...



Launch date anyone?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:56 pm
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 		http://www.sen5241.net/SCCinfo.html

Quote:
SUBCITYCENTRAL STATE INFORMATION:

THIS SPACE IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE STATE AND COMMUNITY. ALL GOVERNING RULES AND VIOLATIONS ARE STRICTLY MONITORED. THIS SPACE IS PROVIDED BY OMM AND MADE POSSIBLE BY OMM.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE SUBCITYCENTRAL OFFICE: 581-814

FURTHER ELECTRONIC INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND AND ACCESSED AT THE SUBCITYCENTRAL INFORMATIONAL EXCHANGE.


BE HAPPY.


Hmmmm......boards? ......chatroom? ......... email system? (although I got a bounce from @subcitycentral.net)

PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:50 pm
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Caterpillar
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Quote:
NOTICE:
SUBJECTE HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE A.R.T. REINTRODUCTION SIMULATION HABOT 3.

SCHEDULED RELEASE: 2004-8-14


PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:24 pm
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madcat82
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 		TRIVIA: In Starwars episod 4 princess leia is in detention block 1138

PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:31 am
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Giskard
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madcat82 wrote:
TRIVIA: In Starwars episod 4 princess leia is in detention block 1138


Yes, that is kinda because of George Lucas' first movie, THX-1138. Afaik, there is an "easter-egg" reference to either THX-1138 or 1138 in every single Lucas movie to date.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:57 pm
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Stormalong
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 		I just got an email. Interestingly this email is addressed to elc3433SPLATsubcitycentral.net. Its from mercicontrolSPLATsubcitycentral.net.

Quote:
SEQUENCE 04 / 37

SEN5241 IS IN FINAL STAGES OF REINTRODUCTION SIMULATION IN HABOT 3
YOUR SUBJECTE PREFIX IS NOT RECOGNIZED
PLEASE TAKE ON RED PILL, WAIT FIVE MINUTES AND TAKE ONE MORE RED PILL
THEN GO TO NEAREST MERCICONTROL BOOTH LOGIN AND WAIT FOR PB848
ASSISTANCE




SECONDARY CONTACT MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
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VWVWWWWWVVVVVVWWWWWVWVWVWWWWWVWVVVWWWWWVWWVVWVVVVWWWWWVWVWWVWVVWWWWVVVVV
VWW
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VVW
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VWV
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WWV
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VWV
VWVVWWVWVWWWVVWVVWWWWVWVWWWVVWVWWWWVWVWVVWWWWVWWVVVVWWW

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LET US BE THANKFUL WE HAVE AN OCCUPATION TO FILL
--


This also caused me to check subcitycentral.net, which is now online!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:42 pm
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konamouse
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 		Yup, got the same email.

/me thinks there is a puzzle in this email - a secret message.

Just another way to publized the re-release of THX-1138 to those who appreciate the genre, us computer geeks. Laughing
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Giskard
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 		Woah, that's a lot of Volkswagens?! Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:41 am
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DM Corleone
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 		RE: V's & W's

It could be binary. The long lines are 75 chars long, the short ones are all multiples of five. With five binary digiys, you have the numbers 0 to 32, enough to represent the alphabet.

But, that is as far as I haev gotten.

-Don

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:02 am
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Stormalong
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 		I think it might have something to do with protein sequences. V is Valine and W is Tryptophan. But I'm not sure how to "decode" it.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:18 pm
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Caleb
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 		V's & W's
I followed up on DM-Corleons suggestion

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Vs and Ws make up a substitution cipher - Each block of five corresponds to one letter.


It seems we may be in trouble for digging too deep on this one...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The text decodes to the following:


have received numerous transmissions regarding sen five two four one from unidentified subjects

please allocate one hundred units for collection and detainment

expect contact from newly released subjects verifying their three character prefix and four digit subjecte id

treat requests as priority two


/Caleb

P.S. Been lurking for a few days - this is my first post. Hi!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:10 am
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aliendial
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 		Great solve!
Now if we only knew what was going on . . .
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:34 am
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Stormalong
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 		Damn, I was working on that (5 character substitution code) but I couldn't make it go anywhere (I suck at these things). I even had the e's in the right place. Then I got distracted by that protein sequence thing. Oh well.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:46 am
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deaddrop
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 		Re: V's & W's
Caleb wrote:
I followed up on DM-Corleons suggestion

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Vs and Ws make up a substitution cipher - Each block of five corresponds to one letter.


It seems we may be in trouble for digging too deep on this one...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The text decodes to the following:


have received numerous transmissions regarding sen five two four one from unidentified subjects

please allocate one hundred units for collection and detainment

expect contact from newly released subjects verifying their three character prefix and four digit subjecte id

treat requests as priority two


/Caleb

P.S. Been lurking for a few days - this is my first post. Hi!


PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:51 am
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Stormalong
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 		Well, if you send mail to mercicontrol, you get back a message that contains
Quote:
MERCICONTROL IS NOT CURRENTLY TAKING ANY TRANSMISSIONS

VALIDATION OF PREFIX/SUBJECTE ID OCCURS THROUGH ELC3433


Then, in the decoded message, we get

Quote:

expect contact from newly released subjects verifying their three character prefix and four digit subjecte id


Perhaps we need to validate a subjecte id with elc3433. I created a code for myself and sent it. In fact, by now I've send around 5 emails with various contents to elc3433SPLATsubcitycentral.net. No response at all yet, not even a bounce.

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