Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm From: jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: Hackers Liberation Army Message-ID: <387@bnl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 01:57:06 EST Article-I.D.: bnl.387 Posted: Wed Mar 14 01:57:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 07:57:30 EST Lines: 42 The following is forwarded from CompuServe for the general amusement of Usenet hackers... #: 18039 Sec. 0 - General Interest Sb: HLA Membership opened 12-Mar-84 21:56:17 Fm: Cruftware/jeffreyb 73105,532 To: all ************************************************************** * Official Membership Card * * for the * * Hackers Liberation Army * * * * This card entitles the bearer to engage in a lifetime * * of doing things that are impossible to do on a micro- * * computer. * * * * I, the undersigned, do hereby pledge my services to the * * betterment of mankind by working to free the world from * * "user friendly" software that makes people "computer * * literate" and promise to speak only in so-called * * "computerese" whenever around "real" people. I also * * pledge my help in making the world safe for a small * * computer to grow up to be anything it wants to be, * * without fear of being forced to run Lotus 1-2-3 or * * d-Base II endlessly for mindless secretary-types who * * work for even more mindless management-types. * * * * LONG LIVE __________________________________________ ! * * (insert favorite user-hostile language here) * * * * Signed _______________________________________________ * * * * Dated this _______ day of _____________, 19_______ * * * * If found in the hands of anyone whose actions would de- * * fame the true meaning of "hacker", this card will auto- * * matically throw itself into the nearest bit-bucket. * **************************************************************