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From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes)
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Subject: Re: Re: Hackers and others take note
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 12:52:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 12:52:31 1984
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> > 
> > When I started programming 7 years ago hackers were the ones
> > building their own computer systems. ... A "hacker" was somebody 
> > who knew his stuff and spent more time in front of a terminal 
> > than he did with his family.
> > 
> 
> 	The day I stop considering myself a hacker is the day
> that I stop writing programs and start selling insurance door-to-door.
> I also am proud to be called a hacker. When people call me a hacker
> with a derogatory tone, I politely thank them for the complement and
> leave them wondering what happened. I hope the incentives to become
> a hacker (i.e. a person who write/improves program for the fun of it)
> never die. LONG LIVE THE HACKER!!! Thank you and goodnight.
> 
> 					Randy Buckland
> 					Research Triangle Institute
> 					...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb

As I've said before, I am a HACKER and proud of it.  To be called a hacker
is one of the best compliments I can think of.  The media use of the term is
more than derogitory.

					Ray