Re: Cracking NOT Hacking!!!! Re: OT: Hacking

[Carl Cerecke]

Mahesh De Silva wrote:

I figured a LUG would know not to call it hacking..
when its actually cracking..

I think of cracking as a sort-of subset of hacking.
To me, the hack value is more important than the crack value.
So, "hacking" in the jargon-file sense is correct.
It is true, I think, that most (all) cracks are hacks, but few hacks are cracks.

Or am I on crack?
Cheera,
Carl.