From: takkyon@dartmouth.edu (Dr. Tachyon)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.tiny
Subject: Re: Tiny logs ...
Keywords: tinylogs, twinks, flame, penn, idiocy
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:29:22 GMT
Organization: PsiLords of Takis Health Club and Massage Parlor
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I'm really grateful to this person for posting.  Partly so I can correct
some misconceptions of his, but mostly because I'm so incoherently
furious that I doubt if I could write a decent flame without something to
play off.

To continue:

In article [cut] Martin Dougiamas, martin@cs.curtin.edu.au writes:
>I, for one, find these recently-posted logs quite fascinating.

"Fascinating" is not the word.  

>Not for the tinysex or because I know any of the characters involved,

I do.  Several of them.  And, to be blunt, I find this total violation of
their privacy to be slightly worse than despicable.  Allow me to diverge
from replying to your post for a moment, Martin, and address the original
poster of the logs:

What in the seven flaming scarlet hells did you think you were doing, you
idiot?  Was your intention to get half, or more of the MU* community, not
to mention virtually anyone else who finds out about your stupidity,
absolutely f*cking furious with you?  If so, congratulations -- you've
succeeded beyond your wildest dreams.  More likely, you felt you'd
received some offense from some of the persons in the logs, and thought
that hacking into someone's account and posting things from it to the net
would be a really cool way to get revenge.  Or, possibly, you're just a
typical childish hacker who thought that causing enormous emotional pain
to the people depicted in the logs might bring you a few fleeting moments
of amusement.  Either way, grow up, although given the current attitudes
of some people I've talked to, whether you'll have a chance to is highly
debatable.  (And yes, we *will* identify you.  Real soon, I'll bet.)

I don't know why I'm bothering to address you; no doubt you will not
deign to respond; generally, people cowardly enough to post private logs
from guest accounts aren't too good about revealing who they are. 
Likewise, I find it hard to believe any criticism could possibly dent the
self-confidence of someone with the colossal gall and arrogance to pull
something like this.  Just on the off chance, however, I feel more than
justified in flaming the ass off of a sick, insensitive punk obviously
totally lacking in anything vaguely resembling morals and demonstrably
capable of violating any decent ethical code in the western universe. 
Get a life, get a clue, and grow up.  I wouldn't even bother apologizing
(although given your actions, you're far too shameless anyway), if I were
you; if *I* were the player of one of the characters in question, I'd say
the chances of my accepting an apology from you were slightly lower than
the chances of Z'kon becoming God of PernMUSH.  (Besides which, any
acceptable apology would have to include some form of identity, and I
dare say that revealing such would not, to say the least, be a smart
idea.)  I cannot accurately express my anger, disgust and fury at the
person posting these logs, and, likewise, my regret and sorrow that
something like this could happen. 

As Lydia says, the logs were posted from a guest account at upenn.  This
is a revoltingly bad security problem.  IMNSHO someone should *not* be
able to do this.  Period.  There is little or no excuse for allowing it
to happen.  Perhaps the upenn sysadmins ought to spend less time worrying
about whether cs students exceed their cpu time limits, and more time
fixing the security holes in their system.

> [cut]
>There ought to be a lot more posting of this sort of thing to
>rec.games.mud.tiny.

No, posting this sort of thing to r.g.m.t is a good way to get one's head
stuck up on a pole somewhere.  We don't need more of it, we need to
discourage it.  Strongly.

>Phew, there sure are some far out people around.

Yeah, there sure are.  I'd guess that someone who gets his kicks posting
logs dealing with people's private RL and VR lives to the world probably
is pretty f*cking far out.

>Martin

		-- dt
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