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          The Hack Report           ||           Notes on the
         for January, 1993          ||        January, 1993 Issue
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    The January, 1993 issue of The Hack Report initiates a rather
    major change to the report.  With the exception of listings from
    the Questionable Files, Information, Please, and the Meier/Morlan
    List sections, none of the files listed in the December, 1992
    issue are carried over to this issue.

    To help readers who are seeing The Hack Report for the first time,
    this month's archived file of The Hack Report contains two
    additional files.  These files, HACK92FA.RPT and HACK92FA.IDX, are
    the full December, 1992 report, along with an index file for the
    1992 full report.  I strongly recommend that new readers take a
    look at the HACK92FA.RPT file in addition to the current report.

    If you are reading this and have been posting The Hack Report as a
    bulletin on your BBS, or have been cross-posting the report in a
    conference or network, first allow me to thank you for your
    efforts over the past year, for without people like you, the
    report would not exist.  Second, please note that it is _not
    necessary_ to re-post the Full 1992 Report, since your users
    and/or fellow network readers have already had to deal with the
    space taken by it once.

    I would also like to ask that all BBS operators please keep a copy
    of the Full 1992 Archive (filename HACK92FA) available on their
    boards, and that readers try and obtain a copy of this file.  You
    will need it, since many files listed in it have been deleted from
    the new year's report.  If you do not or no longer have a copy of
    the Full 1992 Archive, please try and obtain one from one of the
    official distribution sites listed in the FILE9301.SRC file.

    Once again, thanks to all of the distributors and readers of the
    report, from The HackWatchers and the folks around the house here
    at Hack Central Station.  Without you, The Hack Report would not
    exist.

Lee Jackson, Co-Moderator, FidoNet International Echo SHAREWRE (1:382/95)