Voicemail

«So the conversation on the general channel about the cafeterias and meal plans has me ready to re-tell my two stories revolving around them. 1. The phone system we had at the time had a very early instantiation of digital voice mail. You could call the central voice mail number from any phone on campus, put in your extension, and then access your voicemail account. Many clubs used their voice mail account to advertise. For example, when you called the the cafeteria main number their greeting was someone reading out the menu for the day at each of the cafeterias. When each club got their voice mail account they were given a standard password to start and had to change it. We found this out and started putting in all of the extensions we could think of to see who had left their voice mail password as the standard. Like striking gold in the Yukon, we found that the cafeteria menu voice mail account still had standard password. We rapidly wrote up a script for a fake menu including such things as "piss coated lucky charms". We tacked on a small political rant at the end because we were all angry that the Faculty Student Association (FSA) had stopped allowing the Union Station Deli to stop taking meal cards. We went to one of the phones outside a dorm that none of us lived (because we weren't sure just how good this system was at tracing where calls had come from), recorded our new message on the cafeteria voice mail and changed their password to "FSAsucksdeadmooseballs". It stayed up for a few hours, then then entire phone system went down for about a day. When it came back up our message was gone.»

-Used Hair (think that's Jesse Flint) (Forum Alumni Discord, 2024-02-08)