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Top 10 Things NOT to Do When Starting a Net

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1. Advertise it as "unhackable!"
2. Let everyone be an admin.
3. Make passwords optional.
4. Run a mail program that routes questions and answers between callers anonymously.
5. Carry the alt.net.how-to-crash Newsgroup.
6. Become partners with IBM and Sears.
7. Run it under CP/M on an 8086.
8. Free chat!
9. Bring it up for only 8 hours a day.
10. Give it a trite, over-used name with a pun, like "PhishNet."