This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Time to remove alt.hackers.malicious
Article: 8589 of alt.hackers From: hacker@ns.secis.com (Tommy Usher) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Time to remove alt.hackers.malicious Date: 17 Sep 1995 13:49:26 GMT Organization: SouthEast Information Sys Lines: 36 Approved: By choosy moms everywhere... Message-ID: 43h916$flj@newsman.viper.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.secis.com Status: RO
In article <43f9mu$fsg@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com>, Greg Corey <gregc@msn.fullfeed.com> wrote: > >Okay folks, it's time to take BACK the good name of hackers everywhere. Hear, hear! Bravo.... >The newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious has been abandoned. No new posts have >been seen there for weeks and alt.2600, alt.cracks, and alt.crackers all >exist to help out the putzes who believe they need to be a cracker. Uh, just one problem....that group is still active. It has been down a bit, but it is still running about 10-20 messages a day here. Granted, I tend to flame the most obnoxious of the crowd.... I also do this in alt.2600, where I have become something of a celebrity...not that I intended to. Still, I hope you succeed. OhHack: My continuing efforts to redeem the name of hacking. I am currently hoping to get some help from Electrical Engineering Times. They ran an article on the "Hackers: The Movie" web page, and my message to the author seems to have sparked some interest. Quite frankly, I believe the tide is turning in our favor. Write you local paper when they misuse the word hacker. Call the editor, and explain what it really means. Send e-mail if they have an online address. Call or write the local TV stations. Or send e-mail there. Chances are, if they are a network affliate, they will have an address through America Online, Prodigy, or Compuserve. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tommy Usher No Frills Software | Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: | | hacker@ns.secis.com | There's always one more bug. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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