Top 10 Things NOT to Do When Starting a Net

  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."