Re: alt.hackers.d ?

Article: 8477 of alt.hackers
From: rivit@shell.portal.com (Russell)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: alt.hackers.d ?
Date: 28 Aug 1995 22:07:39 -0700
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Alex McLean  <alex@forestbk.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> [...]
>
>I thought creating a new group called alt.hackers.d might be a good
>idea.  People wouldn't have to include hacks, and so could discuss
>other issues, like the future of hackers, unhindered.
>
>alt.hackers.d would have to be self-moderated, like this group, to
>keep the noise down.
>
>So what do you think?

I don't think it's really required... it seems (to me) that most of the
posts (like this one) that "require" a discussion thread simply
<get>
that attention; just that nobody seems to post anything to this group
except "I posted and I'm proud of myself" crap; discussion-type stuff
just isn't that common here in the "off season" (eg. school is
still out
for a lot of people for another four weeks; after the end of September,
everyone's back to school and back to the internet/usenet accounts).

Does that make sense?  I understand the need/want for better discussion,
but, I don't think that changing the OBHack requirement is going to
really improve traffic.  Then again, I could be wrong... *shrug*


ObFuckMSHack:

This one I'm sort of "proud" of... sort of a "victory"
feeling or
something, I guess...  I'll be brief, but, I managed to install a
Microsoft Office Professional package (the entire thing, including
bookshelf) onto a network and allow simultaneous user access by more
than one workstation.  They really went out of their way to make it
a "single user" application (at least, on the "single user"
edition).
*grin*

Now I guess I have to go by a few more copies to make it "legal" but,
now I can say "it *can* be done."  At least I don't have to waste so
many hundreds of megabytes of disk space across the entire network!



Russell

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RiViT@shell.portal.com                                   russell@mce.com
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