From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 31 22:11:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19572 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19566 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 6366 invoked from network); 1 Apr 1998 06:11:30 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 1998 06:11:30 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm5-162.realtime.net [205.238.146.162]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA06953; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:11:27 -0600 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:17:21 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Studded cc: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "hackers" and "crackers" in FreeBSD handbook In-Reply-To: <3521CB7D.171251B9@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Agreed. One of the primary problems facing anyone trying to learn FreeBSD or anything else for that matter is jargon. Words that are familiar to the knowlegeable may be incomprehensible to neophytes. When there is no choice but to use jargon, the context must illuminate the word's intended meaning. John On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > The FreeBSD handbook sometimes uses the term "hacker" for those > > evil-minded security-breaking people we usually like to name > > "crackers" (i.e. "evil.hackers.org"). > > > > I would like to change that to the correct term, anyone against it? > > My personal preference would be to avoid the use of "jargon" terms > altogether. It would be better to describe exactly what you are > referring to. This would help the people translating it into other > languages as well. > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message