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From: jdoe@tesla.UUCP (John Doe)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Response to "comment" from cottrel.
Message-ID: <476@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 20:16:42 EST
Article-I.D.: tesla.476
Posted: Tue Jan 29 20:16:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 31-Jan-85 01:12:13 EST
References: <551@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdoe@tesla.UUCP (John Doe)
Organization: Cornell Univ. EE Dept.
Lines: 48
Summary: 

In article <551@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>In article <7404@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA "comments":
>>/*
>>
>>	[deleted thing about long loops being unreadable]
>>
>>nice:	please dont write code like that. each funxion should
>>	be entirely on one page. use form feeds to separate pages.
>>	thank you.
>>*/
>
>1. Ok.  Fine.  Putting form-feeds in the code may make sense to you.
>   There are just a few problems with this.  Namely:
>	a) the V7 compiler would barf on an illegal character.
>	   (We don't run V7, but some sites do).
>	b) if you two column your output using pr(1) (to save paper...)
>	   pr dies horrible deaths on the form-feed character.
>
>2. DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME HOW TO WRITE MY CODE!!!!
>
>   I'LL MESS IT UP IN MY OWN WAY, THANK YOU!!!!

	Yeah!  The last CS cource I took, where the grader (who didn't
understand "C" to save her life) chocked of about 25% of style grade
because she liked little idiosynchronisities like correct spelling :-)
in comments and big blocks around comments, et cetera, also left no password
set on her account....

	Who could blame the frustrated little hacker, discovering this, from
creating a nice .login that (1) printed a "cute" message giving that hacker's
opinion of her grading methods; (2) copied the .login to some safe place;
(3) moved in a generic .login; (4) and when she logged off, an at(1) script
copied back in the "neat" .login?


	A little check three days later showed [1] A password set;
[2] the .login scam STILL working!!!!  

	The hacker felt a *little* sorry for the grader.

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