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From: appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel)
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Subject: Re: Okey dokey, I give.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 18:42:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: newton@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU's message of 20 Feb 91 15:29:28 GMT

In article <9102201629.AA16505@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> newton@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU (David Newton) writes:
>I was proud to continue calling myself a "hacker" after the media perverted it
>into stupidity, would gladly explain the Real Meaning of the word to those who
>still _believed_ the media perversion.
>I'm not a Real Hacker anymore, I'll have to go back to Gumby Cyberdeck Jockey

In Random American Magazine, one New York hacker said:
}You know, there are always those computer know-it-alls who say, 
}"Oh yeah, I used to be a hacker."  That's crap.  If you're an ex-
}hacker, you were never a hacker to begin with.  It's not something 
}that dies.  It's a way of life.  It's a way of thinking...