Re: Anguilla

> From: Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
> To: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com>
> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: Anguilla 
> Date: Sunday, 9 March 1997 9:22
> 
> Charles:
> > his country shows few signs of libertarian ideology; e.g. they have a
> > state-owned radio station, they haven't quite embraced the idea of
> > competitive bids for government projects, and they still have a
> > monopolistic phone service that has disabled all the pound and star
keys
> > on island phones so that people can't save money using American
call-back
> > services. 
> 
> I am going to have to check tomorrow and see about thse star and
> pound keys.  It would amuse me if we had seen the birth of an urban
> legend.

Hopefully stillborn. 

I use these services regularly and have never bothered to use the # or *
keys. BTW a 'pound' symbol is NOT the same as a 'hatch', fer chrissake!
While I'm on the soapbox, a 'hash' is NOT a 'hatch' as well ... but that's
a losing battle.

> 
>                           Anguilla         vs       USA
> 1) Income taxes           Libertarian             Socialist
> 2) Sales Taxes            Libertarian             Socialist
> 3) State owned radio      Yes                     Yes
> 4) Competative bids       Sometimes               Sometimes
> 5) Pound keys that work   ?  Will check           Yes
> 6) Reporting of finances  Libertarian             Totalitarian
> 7) Free Speech            Yes, sort of            Yes, sort of
> 
>   -- Vince
> 

Regards,

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Vince:
> I am going to have to check tomorrow and see about thse star and
> pound keys.  It would amuse me if we had seen the birth of an urban
> legend.

It is really true.  Cable and Wireless has disabled the pound and star
keys on *all* of the pay phones in the whole country (20 or so).  I am
sort of amazed because I have been here 2.5 years and never heard of this
till this last week.  I don't use pay phones much, but I wonder if maybe
this is a new thing. 

   -- Vince

> [...] BTW a 'pound' symbol is NOT the same as a 'hatch', fer chrissake!
> While I'm on the soapbox, a 'hash' is NOT a 'hatch' as well ... but that's
> a losing battle.

What, you can't deal with a language that has synonyms or something?

>From the Hacker Jargon file (2.9.10):

> :ASCII:: [American Standard Code for Information Interchange]
>
> [...]
>
>  #
>     Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; {crunch}; hex;
>     [mesh].  Rare: grid; cross-hatch; oc-to-thorpe; flash; <square>,
>     pig-pen; tic-tac-toe; scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.
>
> [...]


Note that the Jargon File doesn't list "#" as a "hatch" at all, and calls
"cross-hatch" is rare.

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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tom Allard wrote:

> > :ASCII:: [American Standard Code for Information Interchange]
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >  #
> >     Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; {crunch}; hex;
> >     [mesh].  Rare: grid; cross-hatch; oc-to-thorpe; flash; <square>,
> >     pig-pen; tic-tac-toe; scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> 
> Note that the Jargon File doesn't list "#" as a "hatch" at all, and calls
> "cross-hatch" is rare.

A friend of mine calls this "the little fence"; this was coined by a 
clueless client who logged in as root, but didn't know what to do next.  
As in "Ok, I am at the little fence, what now?"

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