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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!nick.arc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!not-for-mail From: jjasen1@umbc.edu (John "E.R." Jasen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 23 May 1997 10:30:27 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5m49m3$qhd@umbc8.umbc.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5lvtcu$1u4$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <EALEA9.3E3@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5m3j79$gs@Jupiter.teknon.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc8.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: jjasen1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45287 comp.os.linux.misc:176458 comp.os.linux.x:62224 alt.os.linux:21468 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3363 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41392 gnu.misc.discuss:31417 comp.unix.solaris:107204 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? -- "What do you want?" -- Mr. Morden, Microsoft Sales VP -- John E. Jasen // Systems Alchemist \\ jjasen1@umbc.edu -- -- My views are not those of UMBC, AFAIK. HTH. HAND. --