[oclug] followup to Thrown in jail for surfing with Lynx

[M&D Hickson]

I meant of course to say 'some Linux users'. Good God, I must have been
feeling suicidal when I sent the previous email.

-Mick


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:48 -0500, M&D Hickson wrote:
> The point that I found interesting was that the writer took the time to
> look into the background of a story apparently intended to amuse/alarm
> and/or allow that frisson of superiority that Linux users seem to enjoy
> feeling and that causes stories like that to be passed on without
> criticism.
> 
> The rest was just trash.
> 
> -Mick
> 
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:43 -0500, Alex at Avantel wrote:
> > Hard to believe but this thread on the lynx cracker deteriorated into this 
> > post:
> > 
> > "You may just be more productive using a useful tool like vi, or cat rather
> > than an old fashioned monolith like emacs."
> > 
> > Go figure . . . and I can't believe I wasted time following the thread that 
> > far!
> > 
> > A
> > 
> > 
> > On February 9, 2005 09:42 am, M&D Hickson wrote:
> > > A member of the Irish LUG mailing list did a bit of follow-up on the
> > > story about the lynx user bust:
> > >
> > > http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2005-February/022041.html
> > >
> > > Extracted comment from the police:
> > >
> > > "Kevin - thanks for taking the time to contact us. We have indeed
> > > seen the same stories circulating but we are not allowed to comment
> > > on any ongoing investigations as it becomes a subjudice matter. You
> > > will have to wait until this case gets to court before we are allowed
> > > to correct this story.  I can, however, reassure all Lynx users that
> > > we are not totally incompetent and that we have most certainly NOT
> > > made a mistake on this occasion."
> > >
> > > The email quoted from (use link above) is quite interesting.
> > >
> > > -Mick
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