ML Maintainer wanted

[Ken Tilton]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Don Morrison <dfm2 at cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud
> > morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in
> > the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it.
>
> There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree.
> Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country
> over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername
> they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the
> machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down.
>

​Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the Garden
of Eden​, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of good and evil.

​-hk​
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