From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 29 07:47:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03098 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:47:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.88.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03075 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10507; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:41:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: "Robert D. Keys" Message-Id: <199809291441.KAA10507@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Hi good cracker In-Reply-To: from andrewr at "Sep 29, 98 08:37:14 am" To: andrewr@slack.net (andrewr) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I guess the term 'hacker' is now completely tarnished. Yeah, that is sad. Back in the early days when I was ``hacking'' 8080 and z80 code, a hacker was someone who jumped into the code with both feet, thrashed around a bit, and put it all back together in a better manner. Nowadays, it seems, the real meaning has taken a distasteful turn..... oh, well, what has the world come to..... RDK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message