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Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: John "E.R." Jasen
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:00
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In article <5m3j79$gs@Jupiter.teknon.de>, Volker Borchert <bt@teknon.de> wrote:
>In article <EALEA9.3E3@serval.net.wsu.edu>, wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
>|> In article <5lvtcu$1u4$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>|> 
>|> 		[ ... ]
>|> 
>|> Tell Rich and Shannon to get new passwords.
>
>I consider it very bad style to post cracked passwords.
>Send such messages by email.

It could be considered very bad style to post the contents of your passwd
file to USENET.

I personally prefer employing the term 'moronic'.

An interesting question would be: how many of those accounts were cracked
by other people, and did anyone use this information?

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From: jjasen1@umbc.edu (John "E.R." Jasen)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/23
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