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From: js7a+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Price Salsman)
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Okay, in the past few days I have recieved mail messages
indicating that the 2600 article has appeared several times,
that it has appeared once with obvious deletions, and
that it is not appeared.  At my site it has not appeared,
while other recient posts have.

This is interesting behavior in that a previous message
that I posted to this newsgroup appeared at my site quickly.

I refuse to be paranoid about this, and I apologize for
those of you that have recieved multiple copies.  If
this message does not appear at my site in a few days I
will re-post it, as an experiment.

If any of you have recieved incomplete copies, please
forward them to me with headers included as soon as is
convienient.  If there is anyone who is reading this
message and has not seen the article (reprinted from
the "2600" quarterly, by E. Goldstein) please send me
a reply to this message including the headers from
this message.

It is customary to attach an obligatory report on
hacking activities to a post to this newsgroup.  Let
me assure all of you that I do not believe that the
primary definition of "hacker" involves destructive,
vandalous, or malicious activity.  I can see how one
might think that I use "hacker" to mean "cracker" or
"phone phreak."  WRONG.

The reason I have tried to desseminate the 2600 article
is that I do not wish the legistative system of this
government to make that mistake:  if hacking is outlawed,
then only outlaws will hack.

So, my next hacking project is to find the bug that has
prevented my posts from appearing at my site.  And correct it.

:jps