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From: mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik)
Subject: Re: Hey all
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:27:12 GMT

tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:

|In article <1992Aug22.000844.10905@highlite.uucp> mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik) writes:
|>Springfield Mall has TWO arcades, Time Out and Time Out 2. They've
|>been there for years whilst numerous arcades have come and gone. The
|>only problem is that it's usually too crowded. They do seem to get lots

|Interestingly enough, despite being drastically overrun with Mall Rats
|on the regular machines, the Time Out Virtuality machine basically
|had NO LINE when I was there on a saturday.  I guess at $3.50 a pop,
|it was a little to rich for the younguns...

Yes, there's usu. not a wait for the Virtuality game. The real
problem is that the hoards of mallrats overload the limited staff
so you don't get the attention you need to make the game more
enjoyable. For example, another poster mentioned people holding
their helmet. The view is always a little skewed. When the game
started there they had 2 dedicated staff and took the time to
make sure everything was a-ok before turning the game on. It's
a complex system: it needs a quieter location...

	-Mike
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From: shaun@octel.com (Attacking Deep Structure)
Subject: Rivdell mail bounceage
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:49:31 GMT

Skip this unless you are a rivdell user, or just bored or lazy...

In article <7e2TPB1w165w@rivdell.UUCP> elrond@rivdell.UUCP (SysAdmin) writes:
>+------------------------------+------------------------+--------------+
>|  God is Real...              |   elrond@rivdell.UUCP  | Why ask why? |
>|     Unless declared integer  |    Stephen L. Palmer   |  (because)   |
>+------------------------------+------------------------+--------------+

Yo, Elrond!  One of your users, a "Megazone" sent me mail with an address like
uunet!rivdell!megazone, and I got a bounce from uunet, denying that rivdell
exists.  Do you have a choicer bang path or a domainized address I could use,
SVP?   

Merci,

@Man
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shaun@octel.com  ||  "Now is the time on Sprockets when we Lambada!"
              
Laundry: the process of turning perfectly good clothes into lint. 
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From: system@korova.uucp (razorback)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:44:02 CDT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:
> Hey! I can post where I want to! :> sorry... BTW for all who live ine
> (that was "in") Houston they DO have a VR system at D&B's....
hey man im gonna haf 2 blaklizt u!!@@!

uhh...sorry...temporary pms attack??
squid

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
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From: cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product)
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Organization: Computing Research Lab
	<m!_n8mf.ajredmer@netcom.com> <1992Aug26.174433.14872@octel.com>
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:47:27 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:44:33 GMT, shaun@octel.com (Attacking Deep Structure) said:



>> Is this in the game room downstairs... under the student union, is it?  It's 
>> been a coupla years since I was there last.

that would be the one. i was there in march. quite a cool thing also,
one of the best arcades i've visited in some time.

>> -- 
>> shaun@octel.com  ||  "Now is the time on Sprockets when we Lambada!"
>>               
>> Laundry: the process of turning perfectly good clothes into lint. 

c.
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From: merlin@rivdell.UUCP (Merlin the Idiot Magi)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: Rivdell mail bounceage
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:30:08 GMT
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

shaun@octel.com (Attacking Deep Structure) writes:

> Skip this unless you are a rivdell user, or just bored or lazy...
> 
> In article <7e2TPB1w165w@rivdell.UUCP> elrond@rivdell.UUCP (SysAdmin) writes:
> 
> Yo, Elrond!  One of your users, a "Megazone" sent me mail with an address lik
> uunet!rivdell!megazone, and I got a bounce from uunet, denying that rivdell
> exists.  Do you have a choicer bang path or a domainized address I could use,
> SVP?   
> 
> Merci,
> 
> @Man
> -- 

  Rivdell.com doesn't exist, exactly.  Hard to explain...
  /// & ///

--
merlin@rivdell.UUCP (Merlin the Idiot Magi)
Rivendell BBS -*- Houston, TX -*- +1(713)941-2236
From: bliss32@terapin.com (Geoff Schmidt)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: VRs
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:18:27 GMT
Organization: BBS

In article <V491PB2w165w@fennec.sccsi.com>, prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle
Thorson) writes:
>bliss32@terapin.com (Geoff Schmidt) writes:
>
>> The Dactyl Terror out here at UCB is $3.5 for 1.5 minutes, also not really
>> worth it.  I got in for free for about 15 minutes.  The game is slow and
chop
>> and partially buggy (I was experimenting quite a bit since I had the time
for
>> free).  They didnt have any of the other game set up on the though.
>> 
>> Its run on an Amiga 3000 with 2.0 dos I discovered after them re-booting it
>> twice to get it to work, very interesting effects though not quite fulled
out
>> yet.   Has anyone discovered that you can talk to your opponent through the
>> head set?  I could hear very well but I could hear him.
>> 
>>  bliss
>> 
>
>When I played Dactyl Nightmare it was pretty good acept for being kind of 
>blury... The graphics (Atari stage :>  ) were pretty smooth, it had a 
>little delay but not much.. they said they had just upgraded the hardware
>and when I was there the microphones were turned off, they said the had 
>people shouthing bad language at each other!! hehe I tried to get them to 
>turn them back on but they couldnt figure it out.. hehe. The price of a 
>play at Time Out in Springfield was 3.50 for one game (4 min) or 6.00 for 
>2 games... expensive but i thought it was worth it. 
> 
>prisoner
>
>
>--------
>Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
>Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Iwhich was a little
awkward, ahh well.  All in all not too bad, the Dactyl thing sucked, shoot 12
times and die...  Thing moves to fast to shoot easily, specially with the slow
head turning...

 bliss
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From: shaun@octel.com (Attacking Deep Structure)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:44:33 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.

In article <m!_n8mf.ajredmer@netcom.com> ajredmer@netcom.com (Akila J. Redmer) writes:
>Here is a list of locations where Virtuality units are installed as of June.
>
>California	
>		University of California, Berkeley

Is this in the game room downstairs... under the student union, is it?  It's 
been a coupla years since I was there last.

>I do have addresses and phone numbers for all these, I just didn't feel like
>typing them in.  Let me know if you need any specific ones.

*bing*  Yes, please...

-- 
shaun@octel.com  ||  "Now is the time on Sprockets when we Lambada!"
              
Laundry: the process of turning perfectly good clothes into lint.
From: ewadams@netcom.Netcom.COM (Ernest Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Speak at the Computer Game Developer's Conference!
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:46:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service


 
         COME SPEAK AT THE COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPER'S CONFERENCE!
 
The seventh Computer Game Developer's Conference will be held April 17-20,
1993 in Santa Clara, California. The CGDC is the premiere professional
conference of the computer game industry. Every year, it brings together game
developers from all over the world to exchange information and insights (and
business cards). If you have an idea, issue, or problem that you'd like to
share with your colleagues, the Board of Directors wants to hear from you.
 
The format can be a lecture; a panel discussion among two or three
knowledgeable speakers; a roundtable (an open discussion among a small
audience); or a seminar (a shorter lecture followed by open discussion). All
sessions should last about an hour, including a short period for Q & A in
seminars and panels.
 
Topics for talks might include design theory (new ideas about games), design
practice (war stories and how-to information), technical (the nuts and bolts
of writing game software), and business/legal (protecting and selling your
game designs). These are only guidelines, however. Above all, Conference
attendees are looking for SOLUTIONS: practical information they can use to
make their games better and their lives easier.
 
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Write a one-page summary of your proposed talk, and mail, fax, or E-mail it to
one of the addresses shown below. A paragraph will do, but REMEMBER, THE
BETTER THE PROPOSAL, THE BETTER ITS CHANCES OF ACCEPTANCE. Please be as
specific as you can about the content of your talk, its format, and the
category (if any) into which it falls. If you want to do a panel, please list
the names of your proposed panelists.  Please get your proposal to us by
OCTOBER 15, 1992.
 
WHAT WE EXPECT FROM A SPEAKER
Speaking slots are limited, and we think long and hard about who to give them
to. When you agree to be a speaker, you're making a commitment to be there on
time, well-prepared, and to speak on the topic you've proposed. Also, we hope
you'll write a paper for the Proceedings, so that your ideas can reach people
unable to attend your talk.
 
ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER 15, 1992!
 
U.S. MAIL:                      Fax:            (415) 965-0221
Anne Westfall                   Internet:       ewadams@netcom.com
1440 Cedar Place                GEnie:          E.ADAMS10
Los Altos, CA 94024             CompuServe:     71170,161
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From: system@korova.uucp (razorback)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: 24 Aug 92 05:14:19 GMT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:

> merlin@fennec.sccsi.com (Lorne Naff) writes:
> 
> > 
> >   I have it on rumor that the Dave&Busters in Houston has one also.  Mike 
> > Mansfield AKA Illithid Braineater went there and tried it.  Will get more 
> > info from him...
> >    /// & ///
> > 
> > 
> > --------
> > Lorne Naff  <merlin@fennec.sccsi.com>
> > Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
> > 11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
> 
> 
> realy?? Cool, If your info is correct im going over there tommorow!!! Ill 
> give them a call tonight...
> 
> prisoner
> 
> 
> --------
> Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
> Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
> 11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data


will you people please stop posting to each other over usenet from the 
same system? :>

squiddie

(who is the downstream system and if you dont get it, you need to check 
your sarcasm capacity)

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
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From: system@korova.uucp (razorback)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: Rivdell mail bounceage
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:42:08 CDT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

merlin@rivdell.UUCP (Merlin the Idiot Magi) writes:
> > Skip this unless you are a rivdell user, or just bored or lazy...
> > In article <7e2TPB1w165w@rivdell.UUCP> elrond@rivdell.UUCP (SysAdmin) write
> > 
> > Yo, Elrond!  One of your users, a "Megazone" sent me mail with an address l
> > uunet!rivdell!megazone, and I got a bounce from uunet, denying that rivdell
> > exists.  Do you have a choicer bang path or a domainized address I could us
> > SVP?   
>   Rivdell.com doesn't exist, exactly.  Hard to explain...


well, you can reach rivdell through fennec or korova...try:

uunet!nuchat!fennec!riv etc etc etc

because we all link off fennec and he feeds from nuchat.

squid

--
              VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783
        "where you can find the Zeta Greys SAFEWAYING themselves
                into the WONDERBREAD *heart* of America!"
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From: prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:16:14 CST
Organization: Fennec Information Systems, The World View Magazine

system@korova.uucp (razorback) writes:

> prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:
> 
> > merlin@fennec.sccsi.com (Lorne Naff) writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   I have it on rumor that the Dave&Busters in Houston has one also.  Mike
> > > Mansfield AKA Illithid Braineater went there and tried it.  Will get more
> > > info from him...
> > >    /// & ///
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > realy?? Cool, If your info is correct im going over there tommorow!!! Ill 
> > give them a call tonight...
> > 
> > prisoner
> > 
> > 
> 
> will you people please stop posting to each other over usenet from the 
> same system? :>
> 
> squiddie
> 

Hey! I can post where I want to! :> sorry... BTW for all who live ine
(that was "in") Houston they DO have a VR system at D&B's....

prisoner


--------
Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
Fennec Information Systems and The World View Magazine 
11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
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From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Subject: Re: Fabrikant pre-murder E-mail
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 13:46:35 GMT

In <DALTON.92Aug27034426@mantle.Geop.UBC.CA> dalton@mantle.Geop.UBC.CA (David Dalton) writes:

>V.I. Fabrikant, a professor in Mechanical Engineering at Concordia
>University, recently murdered three colleagues and injured more.

	..... text deleted .....

>A fairly lively discussion has been going on in sci.research
>and sci.research.careers as a result of Fabrikant's postings.
>Many of the posters think there may be something to Fabrikant's
>accusations and think there should be an investigation.  

     It should also be noted take Fabrikant took all of his acusations
to the Montreal Gazatte (the cities on English language daily) in the
spring and that after extensive investigation they refused to publish
anything because none of his charges could be substansiated.

    For those who have not had the opportunity to read the daily reports
published in Montreal, it is established that a) Fabrikant was extremely
litigeous (dozens of law-suits against everyone he had dealings with),
b) abusive and threatening to anyone who disagreed with him.

   My feeling and intution concerning this case are that our traditions
of freedom of expression and fair play (due process) have failed us here.
It is evident that Fabrikant was a madman who used the system to harass
and coerce others into giving him what he wanted.  When he failed to
achieve instant tenure, even thought he was on a tenure track, he bought
three hand-guns (requiring considerable persistence on his part because
his orginal applications for a gun permit were refused by the police) and
shot his colleagues.

    Today, everyone is asking how withins the bounds of our systems could
this tragedy been averted.  The answers are NOT easy.  

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [alt.censorship]  Re: Public posting of private e-mail.
Originator: daemon@eff.org
Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 09:42:44 GMT

Newsgroups: alt.censorship
From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
Subject:  Re: Public posting of private e-mail.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 13:23:53 GMT

sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley) writes:
>I agree that one should be able to stop offending e-mail.  

Sure!  There are several "mail filtering" programs available; one of the
best of these is "procmail", which is availabel from many FTP sites.  Get
procmail and install it; you can then filter your mail to your heart's 
content.

>However, before
>one posts private e-mail, there is another step that can be taken, namely
>mailing to the offender's sysadmin.  From (second hand) personal experience,
>this is often effective.  
> [ ... ]
>The main point is, talking to a sysadmin is likely to be far more
>effective than posting e-mail.  

The effectiveness of "talking to a sysadmin" varies greatly.  If the site
is commercial, you may very well succeed.  If, however, the site is aca-
demic, your chances are "not so good".

I'm the sysadmin for the UK College of Engineering (engr.uky.edu, NOT
ms.uky.edu (from which this posting originates)), and I routinely receive
messages such as "your user XXXX called me a YYYYY on the mailing list!
Terminate his email NOW!".  I usually get a chuckle from this.  I've never
rescinded a user's email privileges; with the exception of illegal activi-
ties (emailing pirate software after repeated warnings, for example), I 
doubt that I ever will.

One must accept the good with the bad.  If you enjoy full communications
privileges (and wish them extended to others), you WILL, eventually, be
offended.  It's part of the virtual territory.  

--Wes

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From: pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Limiting religious speech
Organization: Advocates for Self-Government - Davy Crockett Chapter
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Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:04:54 GMT

news@wolves.uucp (The Wolfe of the Den) writes:
: 
: 	What is getting ridiculous is the extent to which speech is
: being restricted in the attempt to prevent any mention of "religion" in
: the public schools.  When a student speaker is prohibited from
: mentioning the strong influence of religion in their own life, without
: attempting to impose any expectations on the others, or a student
: privately bowing their head to pray silently in a non-disturbing way
: gets pulled from the assembly, then things have gone too far.

This action as you describe it was probably done illegally.  This is
very similar to the case where a student was reading the bible in the
bus to school and was told not to.  It was resolved that the
administration was wrong in doing such an action.
-- 
Paul Schmidt: Advocates for Self-Government, Davy Crockett Chapter President
706 Judith Drive, Johnson City, TN 37604, (615)283-0084, uunet!tijc02!pjs269
"Freedom seems to have unleashed the  creative energies of the people -- and
leads to ever higher levels of income and social progress."  --  U.N. report
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.admin.policy]  Re: Policy regarding Crack
Originator: daemon@eff.org
Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:13:09 GMT

From: jaw@owlnet.rice.edu (Joseph A. Watters)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject:  Re: Policy regarding Crack
Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:19:34 GMT

In article <mumble>, dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
|> 
|>     Does anyone have in thier usage policy mention of Crack, or COPS,
|> or other programs that could be used for unnacceptable purposes?
|>     Does anyone not allow possesion of Crack? How about running it?

At Rice, we do not explicitly disallow the possession or running of
either of these programs.  If we caught someone using them for
unacceptable purposes, we could take action against them for trying to
break in to systems that they are not authorized to use.  Our policies
prohibit unacceptable actions, regardless of the mechanism or
technology used to perform them.  For some systems here, our defense is
to run them ourselves regularly, and strongly encourage/force users
whose accounts are vulnerable according to these programs to close the
vulnerabilities.  In the case of crack, if it guesses a password, we
have the user change to an unguessable (by crack) password.  We use
COPS regularly to audit for its list of security holes, such as world
readable/writable .rhosts files, and have the users close those too.

There are many different groups managing computers here on campus, and
not all of them use these methods, to my knowledge.  The systems that
do use these methods comprise the largest networks on campus, with by
far the largest number of users.  The good thing about using COPS is
that it protects the networks that use it from some of the weaknesses
of the other networks on campus.

-- 
Joseph A. Watters, Jr.		jaw@owlnet.rice.edu
Deputy Director, Owlnet
Rice University
Houston, Texas
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