warchalking: thanks

[Monica Belevan]

Thanks for all the answers on tolchoking.
I admit, it did sound more romantic than thieving airwaves. Thanks a lot.

--Monica

>From: "James Bridel" <jbridel1 at rogers.com>
>To: "Monica Belevan" <meet_mersault at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: warchalking
>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:48:07 -0400
>
>Well... if you haven't already got an explanation on warchalking,
>heregoes...
>
>Im major cities in the US and Europe, there is a nascent infrastructure of
>wireless acess nodes embedded into walls, sidewalks etc...  these are more
>or less network ports for people with laptops, palms or other portable
>'puting devices and are generally part of a given companies intranet.  
>These
>nodes are however, unmarked and you gotta be a subscriber or employee  to
>know where they are.  They are the property of the company that installed
>them and not intended for public access.
>
>Warchalkers mark the locations of these nodes so that people can hack into
>or otherwise utilize the network free of charge. You just move to within
>proximity of the node, and with your wireless equipped network capable
>computer, you log on to somebody else's network or internet service. 
>There's
>a lot more mystique and romance involved when you don't really know what 
>its
>about.  "Warchalking" is a pretty cool name, but it comes down to hackers
>wanting to play "quake" online for free, so I guess its not all that cool 
>in
>practice.
>
>Hope this clears things up
>Jim (formerly and intermittently "No Fun" for those keeping score)
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Monica Belevan <meet_mersault at hotmail.com>
>To: <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:15 AM
>Subject: Re: warchalking
>
>
> >
> > I am terrifically intrigued. What exactly is warchalking. And if it is,
>and
> > if it, and: am I allowed to warchalk myself. And what exactly am I
>chalking
> > myself into?
> >
> > I pledge eternal, slavish, pink-chalk love to whoever gets this down on
> > paper for me, because I am (sincerely)afraid of passing over what seems 
>to
> > be a neu Kilroy-was- here fad.
> >
> > --Monica
> >
> > >From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> > >To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > >Subject: warchalking
> > >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:00:53 +0200
> > >
> > >Warchalking
> > >Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking.
> > >http://www.warchalking.org/
> > >
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