Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Hacking? - (nf) Message-ID: <3300024@ea.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 19:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.3300024 Posted: Sun Jun 17 19:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 00:39:14 EDT References: <1353@decwrl.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:decwrl:-135300:ea:3300024:000:334 Nf-From: ea!mwm Jun 17 18:34:00 1984 #R:decwrl:-135300:ea:3300024:000:334 ea!mwm Jun 17 18:34:00 1984 /***** ea:net.flame / uokvax!emjej / 8:28 am Jun 14, 1984 */ With some trepidation, I suggest the Anglicism "boffin" as an alternative to "hacker," in case the media win out. James Jones /* ---------- */ But then what will I call our engineers? If 'the wiz' is a boffin, the engineers can't be boffins too, can they?