Several years ago, I hung out with several people who were regular attendees at 2600 meetings held in St. Louis, Missouri . I honestly have no idea if they even still hold regular meetings here or not. One buddy of mine says he went to a 2600 meeting last year, and won't ever go back. Something about another attendee trying repeatedly to turn him in to authorities for pirated software; simply because he mentioned he could probably get ahold of a copy of a program for someone else there.

I get the idea 2600 meetings have become a haven for "wanna-bes" who feel like they're in the techno-elite by attending, and party-crashers thinking they can do their part to get some big hacker put in jail by attending, and then ratting on people.