From: lug@poplar.ppc.ubc.ca (Guoqiano Lu)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: Internet Go Server Status.
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:39:21 GMT
Organization: University of B.C. Pulp & Paper Centre
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In article <1993Jan22.205110.19584@news.acns.nwu.edu>, jzy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan22.030618.5299@kpc.com> hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch) writes:
|> 
|> Steve,
|> 
|> I almost picked up an extinguisher when I read your post.
|> 
|> >    FINALLY someone has the COURAGE to bring this to the public's
|> >attention!!!!!  I CAN'T BELIEVE that the people in this group are so
|> >BLIND to the FACT that Tim is doing something VERY VERY EVIL through
|> >the Internet Go Server!!!!!!
|> >
|> >    Peter - perhaps GREAT MINDS like you and I will be PERSECUTED for
|> >bringing this to the PUBLIC LIGHT, but the TRUTH will NOT be SILENCED
|> >by EVIL EVIL BAD WICKED NAUGHTY PEOPLE like Tim!!!!!
|> >
|> >    My experiences are similar to yours:  I've LOST the LAST SEVEN GAMES
|> >I've played on the IGS!!!!!!!  I can hear you all now:  "So what?  Everybody
|> >loses games".  (You ALL HATE ME, don't you???!!!!???!!)
|> >
|> 
|> What's the problem with you?!  You lost games and you blame it on tim??
|> Give me a break!  You were apparently in a totally illogic state.  Let's
|> first put aside the fact that losing 7 games in a row is NOTHING; let me
|> ask, did you lose all 7 games to tim?  Or did you lose all of them to
|> yourself?  A Go game has to be played by TWO people.  Now, do you expect
|> all the winners of the 7 games to post and say "What a wonderful thing tim
|> has done to our brains throught IGS"?  Nonsense!  Either you play this game
|> and take the losses, or you just quit.
|> 
|> Or maybe this was your way to complain about IGS.  Nothing is perfect.
|> Everyone can complain about anything.  But be *reasonable*!  At least that
|> is what you need to win games.  And, be a gentleman -- like after each
|> game, win or loss, say "thank you for the game" to your opponent (I hope
|> you did that during the losing streak.)
|> 
|> >    WELL THEN HOW COME MY HEAD WAS TINGLING THE *WHOLE TIME* I WAS ON
|> >THE IGS!!??!!??  I'm NOT STUPID; I wear ALUMINUM FOIL under an ARMY HELMET
|> >to keep the CIA from ELECTRONICALLY READING MY THOUGHTS, but the TINGLING
|> >STILL GETS THROUGH!!!!!!!!!  Something *EVIL* *BAD* *WICKED* is happening
|> >from the IGS!!!!!
|> >
|> 
|> This is not even funning!  I can't believe the words you have used.  And in
|> capital letters?!  Are the shift and the 1/! keys on your keyboard still
|> functioning?
|> 
|> >    Now every time I go out in public, PEOPLE LOOK AT ME FUNNY!!  What have
|> >you DONE to my BRAIN, TIM????  How long do you think you can HIDE the fact
|> >that you're a CIA SCIENTIST WHO'S TRYING TO TAP OUR BRAINS!!????  If you
|> >don't PUT MY MIND BACK to the way it was before, I'll REMOVE MY ALUMINUM
|> >FOIL BRAIN PROTECTOR and make you CATCH ON FIRE WITH MY X-RAY MIND
|> >BEAMS!!!!!!
|> >
|> 
|> Which public?  Which people?  You might be blind yourself!  Did you tell
|> your family that you lost tons of games on IGS and they quit cooking for
|> you?  Tim has done nothing to your brain.  All the damage to your brain has
|> been done by yourself.
|> 
|> Jim Yu
|> 
|> >______________________________________________________________________________
|> >Steve Hollasch                                   Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
|> >hollasch@kpc.com                                 Santa Clara, California
|> 
|> 
Jim i guess the original article is a kind of humor.  Less flame if you can. :-)
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