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Once upon a time, back in 1973 or 1974?  Bruce Parello's on-line newspaper
"Newsreport" on the Plato system ran a serialization of a work of fiction
called "The Great Guano Gap."

Does anyone know if an on-line copy was ever extracted from Plato and made
available anywhere else?  Does it still exist on Plato?

The story line involved some junior system programmers on the Plato system
who started getting e-mail and talk sessions from very strange places,
including:

   supreme-being of p
      (the suffix "of p" was Plato-ese for part-time system staff)

   kissenger of state

   and various people in Bosnia-Hersogovenia, Tibet and elsewhere.

Hard-copy would be worthless, as the story was presented as a series of
terminal sessions, with talk windows popping up, and realistic human typing
speeds for the dialogue (except supreme being of p of course, he (or she?)
could type at 1200 baud).
					Doug Jones
					jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu