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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: i don't wanna be a hacker anymore...
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.195557.25524@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 90 19:55:57 GMT
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In article <1990Oct10.170946.26477@athena.mit.edu> Cliff Stoll writes
(as reported by Jonathan Kamens)

>>Once, I was proud to call myself a hacker.  Alas, those days are 
>>finished:  by 1986, Webster's New International Dictionary (3rd edition)
>>listed hacker as one who illegally accesses computers.  The fight
>>was lost before I entered the battle...

Fortunately, Webster's does it like this:

% webster hacker

1 hacker \'hak-<e>r\ n (1620)
    1: one that hacks
    2: a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity 
    <a tennis hacker> 

2 hacker n (1976)
 [hack skillful repair of a computer program +  -er]
    :an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

Such a shame that some people give up in the middle of the fight.

--
"Restraint, hell. I'm just too fucking busy." -- Bill Wisner