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From: rowland@hpavla.HP.COM (Fred Rowland)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Author seeks help
Message-ID: <1130010@hpavla.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 12:30:45 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division
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Sure, the press reinvented the word hacker, but they gave
it a brand new meaning with criminal connotations.  It
would be best if the distorted meaning were to die.  We
certainly don't need another book to perpetuate an
insult to people interested in computers and how they work.

Forget it.


Fred Rowland
Hewlett-Packard/Avondale division