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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RTM</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="RTI.html" title="RTI"/><link rel="next" href="RTS.html" title="RTS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RTM</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RTM"/><dt xmlns="" id="RTM"><b>RTM</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R·T·M/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Usenet: abbreviation for ‘Read The Manual’] Politer
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variant of <a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of
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1988 (see <a href="../G/Great-Worm.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Worm</i></a>); villain to many, naive hacker
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gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the
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Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as
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the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that
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followed this blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to
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<a href="RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="RTS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> RTS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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