TITLE:PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE MODEM CHATTER
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3                       PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE MODEM CHATTER

  2                            By Parsec of Mystic


3INTRODUCTION: WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THAT?

This story started some months ago.
2"It's not easy to write something for a Mag like Abnormalia"
I started that old article...
2"Or  maybe  I  should  say  that it's not easy to write something for Abnormalia
2without  having  the  editor inserting your article in the Spandimerda awards or
2worst...  But this time will be different."
I was honest.  I intended to stun the editor with something good but still I was
ignoring the consequences.
I was about to discover new diseases. Never examined before.
2"This  time  I'll  write  something REALLY meaningless and useless so that Macno
2will be compelled to insert this article in his awards."
I thought to talk about a bunch of absolutely empty thoughts.
Of  course  I  had  to  wrote that they were full of meaning to me or the editor
could find out the difference.  I'm not stupid, you know!
I know how to fool him!
I wanted to start giving some "So-What" tips. Things just like:
2"Don't start another mag !!! The scene is full of new mags !"
And this kind of stuff. I thought to add also things like:
2"Be friend! The scene has a big lack of friendship!"
But  this  was  not  enough.   Anyone  can do that.  Guys like 2Amon/Mystic1 could
easily beat me in this kind of performances.

I  was  in  the need of something stunning.  Something that could force Macno to
give  me those awards.  I thought to something on a "Spandimerda" tone but it was
not the right way.  All of this things was just normal for a lot of people.

I needed something never seen before. A new style.
A new generation of boring and useless articles.
To achieve a good result I was compelled to start a real enquiry.
Taking  the  entire  society as a big "scene" and analyzing people we find out a
new,  dangerous  class  of  perversions that find good terrain also in the modem
scene and, anyway, in all the computer-related activity.

My work, in the end, was reaching something unexpected.
I   slowly   (  Very  slowly  )   realized  that  my  research,   started  as  a
2"Rip-The-Disease-And-Do-It-Better"1,  was  growing  in a more organic and complex
organization.   New  results  were  flowing below my stunned eyes in hundreds of
computer's screens.
The  scientific  community,  quickly  informed  of  my  discover, offered me the
possibility  to  co-operate  with  some  of  the  most  esteemed sceners on some
subjects they segregate in the sewers from years.

2"They  use  our telephone lines to connect around the globe.  Disturb our nurses
2and they also snore at night !"

After  two  months  of  hard  work with some psicologist we're now able to write
something about it.


3INTRODUCTION TO SCHEDULES

Let's start talking about the real thing.
We strongly suspect it has something to do with the more known 2LOGORREA1.
What does it means ?  LOGORREA is the main name for the habit of talking with no
pauses and without asking ourselves if the other/s feels interest for the things
we are explaining.
This last concept is the one which will be considered in our examination of some
diseases since is the base from which it starts all of our work.

2"I write for MY satisfaction"1 declared one of the examined.
( a DEEPWRITER. See below. )
We  have  no  doubt  about  it  since  we  can  hardly  imagine  the way to have
satisfaction from such a pervert being.

Anyway, all  the others answered in a similar way to our interrogation.
( See 2"Psychological motivation behind -So-What- Articles"1 )
I've followed here the guideline of Macno.
One of the biggest researcher in this field as well as one of my dearest friends
as  well  as one of the greatest article writer of the known universe as well as
the  most esteemed scener as well as the best editor of the scene as well as the
one who will review my next musicdisk.

Behind the LOGORROIC-LIKE writing there's more than a simple need of expression.
There's a strong need of being considered by others.
This is one of the motivation that make the Logorroic-Like writer more active in
the "live" writing.

If  the  Mag-Writer  can  sometime  be  affected  by  one of the below-mentioned
disgraces, the normal guy is a lot more exposed.
The  atmosphere  of  the  Mag  compels the writer to a serious style.  In a BBS,
instead, there's a relaxing and completely stressless feeling that can awake the
worst  monster  of  our  ID.  ( See 2"The forbidden Planet"1 it's a nice film ).
While  the  message  base can be an interesting terrain for researches, we found
some  enlightening  example  in the CHAT, which is the perfect place to lose our
tabu and fears and leaving the inner part of our tendencies, free.

All of us have tried once the CHAT and all of us once have found a:

                          2DEEP WRITER  1( Schedule 1 )
                          2DEEP SLEEPER 1( Schedule 2 )
                          2LAST WRITER  1( Schedule 3 )
                          2NON WRITER   1( Schedule 4 )

Consult with care.


3DEEP WRITER

This is the name of one of the most spreaded disease.
We must however distinguish the NOVICE user from the real sick.
The affected user feels his hands like upholstered of stone.
He just can't move it.

2The deepwriter is the typical user that cleans with a cat-fur brush the keyboard
2before and after using it.
Sometime  he can even kiss it and we have seen with astonished eyes a guy making
votive sacrifice to the keyboard before a chat.

Some  scientists  have advanced a brave theory that want the user feeling a sort
of respect toward the keyboard.

2In  my opinion the DEEP WRITER projects on the keyboard the shape of his father.
Is clear here the case of a transfert of the primal shock on the computer.
Maybe  in  the first childhood he was punished for something like the crash of a
glass.   It's not rare, in these cases,  also a deep fear of other common things
like combs, telephones and stereo, girls and sometimes even himself.
He  seems to fear the wreck of the subject of his attentions and the result is a
common sense of slowness.
2The words are typed in from ten to one letter per minute.

To chat with a DEEP WRITER is frustrating and demotivating.
In  most  cases,  to  chat with a DEEPWRITER causes mutism for severe years.  We
strongly  recommend  to chat with people affected just in case you have a strong
will or nothing better to do.

In this case the LOGORREA penetrate in the disease weighing it down.
2The DEEP WRITER becomes a DEEP SLEEPER.


3DEEP SLEEPER

The  substancial differences are that the deep sleeper corrects himself and that
he writes twice the length of a normal chat.
( From the first time you chat with him )
This means that he'll write:

2"I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOUR ENLIGHTENED OPINION" 

Instead of: 

2"OK"

And  if you ask him if he'll come to the next edition of the SMAU.  He'll surely
reply:

2"HAVING  I  SOME  BIG  PROBLEMS  OF TIME I WAS NOT ABLE TO STUDY FOR THE DRIVING
2 LICENSE  AND  SO, UNFORTUNATELY, I CANNOT MOVE WITH THE BUS BECAUSE I SUFFER OF
2 CLAUSTROPHOBIA.     I    REMEMBER    WHEN    I    WAS   A   CHILD   IT   WAS...
2 1983...NO...84...NONONO  IT  WAS  83...   OR  84  ?  ANYWAY I REMEMBER A DAY MY
2 MOTHER TOLD ME..."

Instead of:

2"NO"

I suppose the consequences are clear to eyes of the reader.
But that's not enough.
2He  has  to  write  the right thing in a vortex of paranoic deliriums1.
He  shift back with his cursor every time he finds a small incorrect word.  Note
that the deep sleeper always correct the LAST 2 or 3 letters of the word just if
the word is notable long and if you have already understood the meaning of it.
Note  also  that  ALL these operation are executed in the usual calm of the DEEP
WRITER.
Finally note that the DEEP SLEEPER is NOT even able to correct himself.
He  changes his correction from a minimum registered record of six times up to a
max.  of two-hundred times.
The result is often a strong desire of giving death to someone.
In most cases, to the DEEP SLEEPER himself.


3THE LASTWRITER

2This  is,  in  our  opinion,  the  most  dangerous  disease  we've found in this
2research.
It's hard to talk about the LASTWRITER.
This  kind of mental deviation found its origin in the inner conviction that the
user is ALONE.
He  is  NOT chatting with other people.  He is chatting with a complex algorithm
that simulate the other users.

Of course these are just INCONSCIOUS thoughts.
In  the  surface  of  his  ego,  the LASTWRITER is a normal guy.  We called this
disease LASTWRITER because of the atmosphere it create around the chatter.
2It seems like he is one of the last living being on the surface of the planet.

To  clearly  understand  the  deep meaning of this disease we should think for a
moment like a LASTWRITER.
2For this guy the rest of the world doesn't exist.
ALL it's just a screen with lights on.

This causes the LASTWRITER to act as a... how can I say ?
STUPID ? Well.. let's say stupid.
He  writes  about  things  he  never  heard  before...   he claims himself to be
everything,  careless  of  the  reactions  of the others just because the others
don't exist.
He  can write insults for hours with the deeper calm or he can just act with any
sense but...he doesn't care.

A  fairly dramatical case was the one of A.  ( we'll call him that way for legal
matters ).
He  insulted for days another user without motivation until the other waited him
outside his house.
We  all suppose that he understood too late the REALITY of the things were about
to happens...

We prefer to lay a merciful silence on the things the LASTWRITER suffered.
We  just  can  say  that  the other user went away with a satisfied smile on his
face...
And we cannot hide a certain satisfaction too.


3NON-WRITER

Also known as 2UNWRITER1.
We  can  hardly  explain  this  particular state of mind since it is quite rare.
Anyway,  in  our  researches  we  found  something useful.  Pay attention to the
following chat where R is for RESEARCHER and 2u1 is for 2UNWRITER1.

R> So you need a memory expansion for your 1200...
2u> Yeah I would like to use it.
R> ...? To use what ? The memory expansion or your 1200 ?
2u> Yes.
R> ...YES WHAT ?! Yes-"THE EXPANSION" or yes-"MY 1200" ?!?!
2u> Yeah! You got it buddy! It's a pleasure doin business with you.
R> Ok, get lost. I'll call you later.
2u> Yes but with that intention not the other for my expansion?
R> What...What intention ? Say what ??
2u> Uff...   you're a bit hard isn't it ?  How can I chat with you if you aren't
2   able to understand a single word ?
-R Exits chat room-

( Our researcher had nightmares for some days. )

As  you  can  see,  the UNWRITER is mostly dangerous.  One of the peculiarity of
this  brainless  writer  is  that he is ALWAYS writing the right thing.  WE are,
instead,  some  kind  of limited minds that cannot understand his clear and fine
dialectic  art.   Maybe  he  is  right.   Maybe  it's a limit on the way for the
communication  with  others.
2If  a day, we'll be able to communicate with the unwriter, then we'll be able to
2communicate with everything.
This  is one of the biggest motivation that leads me to study the UNWRITER.  The
future  benefits  for  the  community  are promising:  Knocking down the wall of
incommunicability.    Maybe   there's   the   chance  to  open  new  channel  of
communication with other living being...  even with alien forms of life.
Anyway,  until  that  moment,  we  must  consider  the NON-WRITER as a dangerous
element.   For the community itself we have to restrain this disease until we'll
have the adequate structures to study it.