From: ButtrBoy@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: re: what an asshole
Date: Wed Jun  1 17:40:04 1994

hahahaha!
HooBoy you guys are a riot. I think mebbe you guys don't give
Cos enough credit, the ornery old bastard. He knows plenty 
about OSs, unix specifically...been around long enough,
i guess. Cos--you heard about plan 9? know anything about it?
I got a redbox, i admit, but it's nothing special, really.
Just use it to call my girlfriend while she's away :'(
I give a lot more credit to people who know x25 networks
and pbx's and are serious about learning how systems work.
I just got my account restored after my sysadmins discovered
a cracked passwd file and ypx and satan and (yep, cos, you 
guessed it) 8lgm and bugtraq scripts and nuke etc. They
also discovered it was 30 megs larger than it was sposed to
be. So no more toolin' around for me, imma learn UNIX the
hard way and set up a box myself, mebbe SLIPed in, running
NetBSD, instead of trying to glean shit from the tons of
scripts and crap people dcc or mail me. 
It's funny, when you think about it, how much you can do
without really understanding how it works. SMTP, fer
example. Hell, any protocol, really. That's why i think all
hackers should try to read as many rfc's as they can,
instead of running programs other people wrote or 
following instructions other people give. That's not
hacking. That's not learning. That's just leeching.
anyhowz, my $.02. 

-=ButterBoy=-