Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!tramp.Colorado.EDU!bradford From: bradford@news.colorado.edu (Mark Bradford) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Hmm... Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 19:41:29 GMT References: <9102191013.AA25200@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Reply-To: bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu (Mark Bradford) Organization: LifeForms Unlimited (Cephalopods) Lines: 33 Approved: Great.Cthulhu@tramp.colorado.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: tramp.colorado.edu In <9102191013.AA25200@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> newton@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU (David Newton) writes: >Hmm, I have now been flamed three times for my post in which I stated that >I found it quite against the "hacker ethic" to restrict access to the >newsgroup. >Sorta proves my point. Au contraire, m'sieur. Access to this newsgroup is restricted only to those so lazy or unobservant that they can't FIGURE IT OUT. I did so without even resorting to the (freely available) RFCs. And if you're not the type who can/would want to figure it out, why in the world would you want to post to alt.hackers? >To the person that asked me where my ob.hack >was, well, wouldn't that sort of imply I approved, which I don't? Or that you're not hacking anything. What's yer point? Why did you bother in the first place? >I 'spose you'd have the FSF moderated too, so only "real" hackers could get >stuff from 'em? No. But I s'pose you'd have the FSF accept code from every Tom, Dick, and Sally, regardless of whether or not it was written by someone who knew what they were doing? Ob. hack: Minutes after I got a PC C compiler, I wrote a replacement for cd that understood forward slashes and CDPATH. Felt good. -- -- Mark Bradford (bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu) <> To err is human, to moo bovine. "Why don't we boil the wolverine?"