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Silly Willy Started conversation Sep 3, 2001
I think this may well be the 3000th Edited-Guide Entry! 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 3, 2001
If it isn't, we can always hack it to make it *look* as if it was... 
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Sep 19, 2001
Nah, it would still be a hack.
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Smiley Ben Posted Sep 19, 2001
Erm, I presumed they were talking about breaking in remotely to h2g2 and changing it, which would be a hack...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 19, 2001
It would be a hack, as in the act of hacking, but the person performing it need not neccesarily be a hacker. They'd definitely be a cracker, though... 
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- 3: cafram - in the states. (Sep 3, 2001)
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- 6: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Sep 19, 2001)
- 7: Smiley Ben (Sep 19, 2001)
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