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From: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Of worms and hackers
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 14:46:56 EST
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As long as people are talking about other meanings of the word "hack,"
where I grew up (in the Bronx), a hacker was someone who hacked.
Hacking was a defensive foul in basketball, when you hit someone who
had the ball, he'd yell HACK!, and take appropriate action, like to
start a fight if he was tired of being hacked.  If he called the FBI,
everyone thought he was a sissy.

I have never heard "hacking" referred to in a televised basketball
game, though it accounted for half the calls in halfcourt schoolyard
basketball.  ("Travelling" accounted for the other half.)

	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp Inc  Westford MA   (617) 692-6200 x274