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From: alan@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Use of the Word "Hacker"
Message-ID: <1818@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 09:57:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 13 09:57:33 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Sep-83 19:16:32 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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	I guess I don not understand the context in which the word
	hacker is being used on the net.  I looked up the definition
	and the closest thing I can figure out is that a lot of people
	posting news also drive cabs as a side job.  Maybe you have
	come up with your own perverted conotation of the word, but
	I really think you should stick to dictionary definitions or
	at least something close to it!
	                                     Gene Foster
	                                     houxm!3363ewf


>From the Thorndike Barnhart Dictionary:

		 ..
	jargon (jar'g^n), n. 1. confused, meaningless talk or
	writing. 2. language of a special group, profession,
	etc.


The second definition is appropriate here.


	Alan Driscoll
	Bell Labs, Murray Hill