From:	Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Fw: Newbie92739434
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:16:46 -0800

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Avenger wrote:

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> Difficult, but a challenge and an adventure. It would not be easy, but
> newbie9 has displayed patience and skill, but especially patience. He's
> not a "beat the door down" hacker, he's a nibbler, someone who
> investigates the puzzle from all angles looking for a crack in the
> armour and exploiting it.

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Hmmm. This is the first major conscientious example of a kid decker I
have heard. If you have thought about it this much, then I don't think
you'll let it get out of hand. As I once said to a friend when describing
a story I had seen that, given a one sentence synopsis, sounded like 50
billion other stories of its ilk: "It's a matter of execution, execution,
execution." Sometimes the popular story ideas are popular for a reason,
but it takes good storytelling to make them worth reading.

--My two yen

Jeff