On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
Hi, my name is Tod, and I really want to be a cool hacker, so I joined this crap mailing list called cypherpunks.
Blah Blah Blah, you guys don't know anything...Prove yourself and I may let you in. This mailing list is for people who want to sell goods nothing else.....
Tim ,Tod, whatever: The list is for Hackers & Crackers. Since you made the famous Dumbshit Statement " I want to be a Hacker" Your first hack test is trying to get off the list.
An entity claiming to be +Sabbath+ wrote: : : Tim ,Tod, whatever: : : : The list is for Hackers & Crackers. Since you made the famous Dumbshit : Statement " I want to be a Hacker" Your first hack test is trying to get : off the list. : Hackers and Crackers, huh? News to me. This list is supposed to be for the discussion of crypto, but I think Tim || Tod was more accurate in implying that it has become a dumping ground for mass marketing. mark PS -- No one chooses to be a hacker, you are or you aren't. The hacker in the crowd is the kid who took apart the toaster to see how it worked. I am of course not using the media version of the term. -- [] Mark Rogaski || "Computers save time like kudzu [] [] wendigo@pobox.com || prevents soil erosion." [] [] http://www.pobox.com/~wendigo/ || - afcasta@texas.net [] [] >> finger for PGP pubkey << || []
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