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From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: Jargon File Editorial Philosophy
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Date: 15 Dec 90 16:36:16 GMT
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In <1990Dec14.003642.25911@Solbourne.COM> Warner Losh wrote:
> I have been hacking for over 15 years now (not much in comparison to
> Mark), and I haven't heard of half of the new things added to jargon
> file.  And I'm a dweeb!  Please, if you are going to reinvent jargon
> for a whole industry, please don't get offended when people just
> refuse to change......

I will, on request, send my entire archive of saved submission postings
to anyone who thinks I'm making this stuff up. Warning: it's about 1.5
megabytes long.

Wake up and smell the coffee, guys.  The hacker culture isn't just a couple
tiny bands of cybernerds at a handful of big universities any more. Sure, that's
where you come from and where I come from -- but we are long past the days
when any one person could expect to know all the jargon. 
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)