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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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Subject: Re: Should Dan post full details of his tty bugs?
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Date: 9 May 91 22:24:31 GMT
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In <1991May9.155614.14378@cm.cf.ac.uk>
bharat@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta) writes:

>Unfortunately, this whole deal is the result of something that never
>should have happened.  System administrators are notably busy all the
>time, whereas idle hackers usually (by definition) have a great deal
>of idle time.

Please!  Get your terminology straight.  Hackers make the best system
administrators, and a hacker (by definition) is seldom idle.  Perhaps
you were thinking of "crackers".  (Though the only type of cracker I
know that remains idle -- until eaten -- is the type you get from a
box).
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM>
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