Re: c00l hack

Article: 7632 of alt.hackers
From: wilmesj@vccnorth02.its.rpi.edu (Josh Wilmes)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: c00l hack
Date: 8 Apr 1995 22:32:45 GMT
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Marco A Terry (mat@hopper.unh.edu) wrote:
:  Wow man! You are SOOOO Hip and Cool - dude - can be like you?

: >low level format the drive as soon as it was rebooted.

: <sniff> <sniff>.....do I smell AOL?? ;-)
: I guess this guy is an exac copy of his .mailsig:
: >RadD00d@aol.com   "Huh huh huh huh huh huh" - Beavis and
Butthead
: certainly a Butthead......
: OK - Butthead - breaking in to a machine *illegaly* is NOT a hack. Doing it
: and then doing (or having a virus do) a low level format is Moronic...unless
: you think that screwing up a person is Cool.....in that case.......(I choose
: to reserve my opinion, if this is the case)
: It's people like you that are making the net tighter than ever......

Umm.. If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that this RadD00d post
was an april fools joke.  Read along the left collumn..

: ObThisIsNotReallyAHack:
: Wrote a whole set of quickie scripts that get info from the system....
: really lame....as a lame example, this script called 'name' in which
: you provide eiother a logif or a Fristname or Lastname and gets
: all the matches....ypcat & grep....As I said...lame (but faster than
finger!)

There is a program called ypmatch that does just that.. I am not sure if it is
on all systems however..


ObHack:

Lets see.. Well, I wrote a little bourne shell script that parsed a data file
of names and email addresses, make a pretty list (with printf), made an HTML
version (complete with mailto: links), and send out the pretty list to
everyone on it using MH..  What a mess.. But hey, it works :-)  (No hack too
small :-)

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