From:	Justin Pinnow <jpinnow@*****.edu>
Subject:	Re: Re[6]: Security Tally[f]
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:07:01 -0400

David Buehrer wrote:

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> I view the population of deckers as being less than that of
> mages (mages are born, deckers are made). Green/Easy hosts
> won't be on alert very much, cuz they're cheese and have
> nothing of interest. There might be a chance that an
> Orange host is on alert when you log on, but due to the low
> population of deckers I think it would be low. And Red
> hosts won't be on alert much because deckers don't hit
> those without a good reason, unless they're so good that
> they do it for fun.

I think something has been misinterpreted here. Mages are just as much made as
deckers are. *In addition* to training, you must be born with the competency to
be a mage in the first place. This suggests that mages are the rarest of the
archtypes (standard ones anyway). With information being the most valuable
commodity around, anyone looking to get ahead in the world that wasn't born a mage
might think to get into the information trading buisiness....that requres some
good deckers. I think you will find that deckers are more common than mages.

Just an observation. :)

Justin :)
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