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- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!news
- From: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Subject: Re: Hello All!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.021136.10835@colorado.edu>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hamlet.cs.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <98052@ms.com> <C1HCD1.9Gt@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 18:50:18 MST
- Approved: me
- Lines: 49
-
- In article <C1HCD1.9Gt@dcs.ed.ac.uk> adk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Kennedy) writes:
- >In article <98052@ms.com> GB@ms.com (Gill Bates) writes:
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By the way, it's microsoft.com, not ms.com
-
- >
- >>Hello All!
- >>So, how do you like my automatic posting software? Nice huh?
- >
- >No, not really. How does it work? What does it do? What is so
- >"automatic" about it? It appears to change the "Sender:" line.
- >Big deal.
-
- No, it writes the post. Unfortunately, the AI isn't great, so it ends up
- sounding like a complete moron :-)
-
- >> From alt.hackers Tue Jan 26 20:53:44 1993
- ..
- >> Nntp-Posting-Host: ms.com
- >
- >>Sorry, The SPA has recommended that I don't distribute it.
- >
- >Perhaps because it's rubbish. Please try harder next time, you colorado
- >university student, you.
-
- Do you mind? Colorado University is QUITE different from Colorado State--
- I assure you, no CU student would ever be so silly as to do this sort of
- thing :-)
- >
- >ObHack: Writing a replacement for ping(8) - well, a front-end really,
- >that gave much friemdlier messages, and had more options, like a
- >sarcastic mode, and a "sultans of ping" mode....
- >
- Sarcastic mode? Oh jees...I can't wait...
-
- Seriously, maybe he just meant that he wrote a program to automatically forge
- the authentification and attempt to forge the sender. This, I suppose, is a
- *minor* hack. (not that we all don't have one)
-
- ObHack:
- Writing an X windows programming interface to make X appear procedural rather
- then event driven, and allowing useful X programs to be written in a low number
- of lines. Should be ob-kludge, really, since that is what it was. I ended up
- forking off a seperate event handler and talking to it via pipes. It works, but
- is pretty ugly...does anyone have any ideas?
-
- ObNonComputerHack:
- Fixing my retainer with a soldering iron. Didn't fool my Orthodontist,
- though :-( (thankfully I don't have to wear it anymore)
-