From: roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca (R Ross Holder Jr)
Subject: Re: UManitoba game applicants: READ!!!
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 06:21:36 GMT

In <BvDLKx.18I@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cashman@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Geoff Cashman) writes:

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>--- What follows is NOT meant to deride in any way the efforts of the ---
>--- people at UManitoba too put on this game...no insult is intended  ---
>--- towards them, nor should any be inferred.                         ---

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>As of this writing, the people at UManitoba intending on running this
>  game have yet to advise their site administrators that a long term game
>  will be running on their system.  I have strongly advised them to nofity
>  the administration, but do not think that they will be informed. 
>  (This also was an untenable situation, and I don't think I could have
>  deitied under these circumstances).  As a result, the game could 
>  have problems with the site admin. 

I am a PLAYER in this upcoming game - I just wanted to clarify the situation
here at ccu.umanitoba.ca.  Site administrators here are, to be perfectly
frank, inconsistent, discriminatory, and incredibly bureucratic.  I don't
feel advertising the fact we're running a game would make it at all likely
a game would begin and 53 interested parties would be S.O.L. so far as this
is concerned.  Here's the facts:

- The University of Manitoba have effectively banned (under much protest)
alt.sex, alt.sex.erotica, alt.sex.bondage, *.sex.* from newsgroup listings.

- A MUD was that was being run within the confines of another user's account
was rumored to have been arbitrarily discontinued wihtout any explanation
being given to the user in question.

- One user out of four guilty of using accounts _after_ the academic session
end date was fined a sum of $500.00 without due process.

- The above user (after paying the illegal fine) set up an IRC node success-
fully on a Sparc station at this site.  It has been running without inter-
ruption with the knowledge of site admins. for almost 8 months.

- A MUD, run by an employee of the University of Manitoba Computer Services
Department called Frontier is running and has been running for over a year.

I've concluded that provided the game doesn't interfere with system operation
and uses the resources we've already secured - there won't be a problem.

>As near as I can tell, this game will be a newbie game being run by 
>  relatively inexperienced deities.  On the flip side, I will be trying
>  to help them as best I can (but again, I am not responsible for the
>  outcome). 

It's good to hear this!  Although we do have, in fact, one other experienced
diety by my understanding.

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