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Re: Style question: "war dial" vs. "wardial" vs. "war-dial"
Subject:Re: Style question: "war dial" vs. "wardial" vs. "war-dial" From:"Simon North" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com> To:<techwhirl -at- earthlink -dot- net>,<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:50:45 +0100
Rachael,
As you noticed, there isn't really a "standard" use, but a fairly
authoritative description can be
found on the IBM developers site, if you can get access to it.
War dialers are software packages, so there isn't really an active
agent involved. You could be called a "war dialing hacker", and you
could "use a war dialer" but I would suggest you avoid using it as a
verb altogether.
Simon
Simon North
Technical Writer
Quintiq Application Software BV
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