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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!visi.com!news-out.visi.com!iaxs.net!tor-nx1.netcom.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!ais.net!uunet!not-for-mail From: mail25193@pop.net (Fred Trottelhauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: su stands for...? Date: 16 Jul 1997 23:32:19 GMT Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5qjlm3$h5q@news0-alterdial.uu.net> Reply-To: mail25193@pop.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust36.max45.new-york.ny.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3705 In article <33cd113b.43326108@netnews.voicenet.com>, xxbbell@voicenet.com (Bob) wrote: >Okay, here's a question for those of you who have been around >for a while: what does "su" stand for? >[etc.] TROLL WARNING - Probability: 80% (pardon if incorrect) Connected Tactic: For behavior B of your "opposition" which you find offensive but which they seem to enjoy, attempt to trigger it repeatedly, until it becomes a neurotic response in your opposition instead of an enjoyable voluntary behavior for them. (Note that here the behavior which offends is display of knowledge of arcana, which to the have-nots (non-UNIX users) appears that it must be done for purposes of ego self-stimulation (I guess people will think in terms they are familiar with), and so is not sufficiently selfless.) On a related topic, is there a prevailing political orientation among the voicenet user community ? Fred When I hear the words 'Connected', 'Trust' and 'Under Control', I reach for my revolver. If UNIX is the revenge of the nerds, the rest of the industry is the football team and the cheerleading squad trying to produce a science project, and expecting an 'A' because they're the football team and the cheerleading squad.