I got my first Internet connected account in '93 Sep and I uploaded Volkov Commander to SIMTEL pretty soon after. Their answer was that I am pirating Norton Com

I got my first Internet connected account in '93 Sep and I uploaded Volkov Commander to SIMTEL pretty soon after. Their answer was that I am pirating Norton Commander (which I obviously wasn't) and they didn't contact me -- they contacted the highest level of university sysadmins and apparently at the time it was a realistic threat the whole university will be disconnected from the Internet because of this. So I was summarily booted from the university VAX and all I was left with were some small Unix accounts at the CS department. And because said department started experimenting on Linux at the time as Unix licenses were expensive, I got an extremely early start on Linux, too...