From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 22:15:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA21230 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA21213 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [166.70.2.43] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xrGg3-0003KJ-00; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:15:19 -0700 Message-ID: <34B86672.D62D366A@xmission.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:28:02 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rich with FreeBSD (was: Help me with my system!) References: <34B7F8C1.9F9648A@dal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Studded wrote: > > Lee Crites (AEI) wrote: > > > "lusers"? Wasn't that an old cp/m command to list the registered > > users? > > Also still used in ircd. The command is short for "list users," but > referring to the (non-oper) users as "lusers" is pretty common on > elitist, anarchical networks like EFnet. Of course that would never > happen on DALnet... *Grin* This is a standard, and very old, entry in the Hacker's Jargon File. It implies that ordinary people who do ordinary things with their computer, i.e. anyone who owns any computer with any software product from Microsoft, is a loser. I beg to agree. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com