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From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
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Date: 13 Mar 91 04:28:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: ronnie@mindcraft.com's message of 12 Mar 91 23:45:37 GMT

>>>>> On 12 Mar 91 23:45:37 GMT, ronnie@mindcraft.com (Ronnie Kon) said:

RK> May I suggest that posting ways of crashing machines may not be the best of
RK> ideas?

RK> 				Ronnie

I would like to second the suggestion.  Why would anyone really want
to know HOW to crash it, unless they WANTED to crash it?  Now, 
if someone said "the code crashes the system; why?" that would be
fair.  (IMHO)

JC


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