From: isae@IASTATE.EDU (ISU Boy !!!!!)
Subject: Re: Official INL 3.0 Binaries
Reply-To: isae@IASTATE.EDU (ISU Boy !!!!!)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:55:01 GMT

In article <1a948eINNsdt@agate.berkeley.edu>, tom@soda.berkeley.edu (Tom Holub)
writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.022917@IASTATE.EDU> isae@IASTATE.EDU  writes:
> )
> )  Don't ask me the chance of such a blessed borg exists here around ISU,
> )  I don't know and It's not my responsibility.
> 
> Note that I am not accusing 'Tis Only A Flesh Wound of playing borgs
> by the following:
> 
> I am reasonably sure that there is a blessed borg at Iowa State.  Once, 
> several months ago, an Iowa State player (with one of those helpful 
> dv02481@iastate.edu mail addresses) sent me the message "I lost the
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[3:35am]146 log% finger dv02481@iastate.edu
[iastate.edu]
Login name: dv02481                     In real life: ???
[3:52am]147 log% 

  Sigh, I have heard that rumour before too but I've no evidence or clue.
  I just checked the username above and there is no such username.
  This leads to 2 possibilites :
  
  1. That person was using fake login  (su privilege? )
  2. You forgot his username

  I would say you forgot his username. dv0248 reminds me of the machines
  here we have: du139-2??.cc.iastate.edu and du248-??.cc.iastate.edu.
  du stands for DUrham Center, the building, and 139 and 248 just refer
  to the room numbers.

  Too bad we don't know his username. 
  
> blessed borg you sent me.  Could you send it again?" (this was on
> Bronco).  I put some messages to Terence in the log, don't know if
> he ever read 'em.  It was a case of mistaken identity, BADLY mistaken
> identity.

  Do you think this might mean the blessed borg is from outside of ISU??
  (Since he's trying to ask a person to re-send the borg but he accidentally
   picked you :)

> 
> Since then I've always been wary of people with iastate logins, and
> have noticed several players who displayed borg-like behavior (and note

  
  I understand this wholeheartedly. *I* have been asked, from time to time,
  if I am playing a borg when I play on outside servers like bronco / rwd4.
  Some people even asked me the same thing when I played one of the INL
  games last summer. He thought I sorta hacked the client to make it able
  to fire those nasty INL torps (with no "ticks" restriction) right on
  his nose. I was surprised to find out only a few people I asked noticed
  the difference between INL torps and real server's torps.

  Well, what can I say? I am from ISU and I've been playing netrek for almost
  2 years now. Have I not gained some skills yet? ;-)

> that I don't make accusations of this sort lightly, nor do I base
> my observations on anything like 'he phasered me when I was cloaked
> and never lost the lock').
> 
> Again, the presence of a blessed borg at Iowa State does not prove
> that 'Tis Only A Flesh Wound used one in their game, and I make no
> such accusation.  I don't find it hard to believe the Janitors of
> Anarchy, however, although the evidence (what I have seen) is 
> circumstantial.
>  -Tom


  Oh well, at least I know I never play a borg in any INL game.

-Rony
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