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From: beaty@animas.colostate.EDU (steve beaty)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: i don't wanna be a hacker anymore...
Message-ID: <10035@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 7 Oct 90 22:40:43 GMT
Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU
Reply-To: beaty@animas.colostate.EDU (steve beaty)
Organization: none, you should see my desk... (Colorado State University)
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Approved: me, this is just the kind of stuff i aprove of...


well, i'm tired of people calling me a hacker when what they mean is cracker.
i'm not a cracker; if i had that kind of spare time i'd spend it on a
bike.  i also
don't like the term being spread about with such alacrity.  so i think
we should
change what we call each other, so we at least know what we're talking about
(-: i'm throwing myself in here with great alacrity :-)  anyways, i'd
like to make
a modest proposal for a new term:

grokker: one who is at one with (computers).  one who groks the void type.

well, there it is then.

obl. hack: a 'tr' filter to change from my RatShack wp-2 wordprocessor format
to generic ascii.  simple, straight forward, and sure to draw blank
stares from 
non-grokkers.
		steve beaty@longs.lance.colostate.edu

disk-claimer: n. a small computer program that removes all traces of my
employer's responsibility from all media containing these lines.