smith@theory.cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith) (10/23/88)
(I've posted this to groups where hashers might be lurking. To avoid further cluttering up the net, PLEASE RESPOND VIA E-MAIL. If you must post, please post to misc.misc Thanks!) CALLING ALL HASH HOUSE HARRIERS: (If you don't know what hashing is but are interested, then read the paragraph at the end, after the signature.) I got started in this strange activity a few years ago in New Jersey. I got involved in the Pittsburgh group when I came out here last year. To my surprise, I recently discovered that a large fraction of us are online. Having already run into some hashers from other places via the net, I had an idea: if we had a mailing list or newsgroup sort of thing with maybe fifty people representing a dozen hashes or so, what a great way to trade stories and interhash information! So get in touch if you're interested. --Sean (hashname unprintable) Sean W. Smith smith@theory.cs.cmu.edu Dept. of Computer Science KA3EEX Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890 on-on! For those of you are wondering what this is all about: Hashing is a sport founded by British army officers in Malaysia in 1938 who wanted to work up a thirst before going to their favorite tavern, the Hash House. Hashing is cooperative and non-competitive in nature, and consists of following an obscurely marked trail through unusual terrain-- swamps, junkyards, sewers, forests-- in search of beer. There are several hundred hashing clubs worldwide; one of them happens to be right here in the Iron City. The Pittsburgh hashes tend to be four to eight miles of intermittent running, and while there is one known hashing fatality (in Burma-- someone fell off a waterfall), the worst that's happened on a Pittsburgh hash are twisted ankles, poison ivy, and the occasional trespassing arrest.