From: jasonlee@yabbs
To: binkley@yabbs
Subject: re: ...
Date: Tue Nov  9 14:24:12 1993
Well, I think the problem is that most (or a lot) of the warez puppies 
think they are super hot shit cuz they just downloaded the newest game.  
This doesn't take much skill.  Warez guys who say they're "pirating cuz 
they don't like the big corporations, and they think info should be free" 
and all that shit, are fooling themselves.
Actually, a lot of the same goes for the HPA people, a good deal of whom 
think that having a passwd file means you're a hacker-elite.  It's 
nothing, and it will only get you so far in a quest to understand computer 
systems.
I say all this from personal experience (I used to be both, but not to 
some extreme).  A whole mess of the people I met while being an elite (HPA 
or warez) were basically supreme assholes.  No one was nice, and I got 
tired of it.  People like that rarely get along, so you get all kinds of 
fighting amongst the two groups.  It's pretty simple.

JasonLee