From: michael.armstrong@homebase.com (Michael Armstrong) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.fan.furry
Subject: Re: Quicksilver virus on furry Muck -- solved!
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Home Base BBS - St. Thomas, Ontario - 519-633-7253
Reply-To: michael.armstrong@homebase.com (Michael Armstrong) 

From: michael.armstrong@homebase.com

TV>  You do seem to be a little short on proof there, Joel.  But here is a
  >true proof.  I did it.  I admit it.  And I am sorry that I did do it.
  >Yeah, right you'll probably say.  Well, I was planning to admit it
  >on the net earlier, but again... Yeah right.  Anyway... I am sick of
  >telling lies to people and screwing people over and so on and so
  >forth...  HONEST! [HONEST(tm)?]  I do not think it was right that I
  >put the virus on furry muck, and I wish I hadn't.  I also want to
  >apologize to all of the people in the log I flamed.

TV>Furry never lost any information.  Furry got the security changes to FB
  >code made.  The only thing left is that there are still two other people
  >running out there free when they should be punished.  And this leads into
  >some more problems.

TV>  First, there are not two people.  That is not much of a problem.  The
  >real problem is that I have already promised that I would not reveil
  >the name of the other person I worked with.  Here I am up against a
  >wall.

This does me alot diservice since I am a Christian.  You have tarnished
my testimony and value of my faith as well as yours.  I find some
conflicting parts to your statement that you say that TWO people are
involved yet change it later.  You seem to be looking for a way out yet
not taking full responsibilities for your actions by hiding behind a
veil of Christianity.

IF you are truly repentant, you'll go to system adminstrator and admit
your involvement.  That might mean naming your accomplice.  By the
sounds of the level of the infestation, he/she must be far up the
security ladder; chances a student in latter part of his studies working
for sysadmin or operations.  I also detect that you inheritly didn't
have the skills to pull this stuff and were advised by a peer group.
(Some sort of initiation game, no doubt.)  Trying to fit in, you gave
into peer pressure and with their advise, expertise and no doubt
supplied the source for page command or advised on how to obtain it.

Whatever, they hope you won't turn them and you remain the gullable fall
guy.  That is why they made you promise not to turn informat to save
their tail and burn yours.  Some friends ... they trash your faith,
causing you to stumble, make awhole lot more enemies than you
didn't need for what in return?  Comfort?  Friendship?  If they
are friends then they will stand by you.  Fat chance.  You owe them
nothing since they gave you nothing but trouble. Right?!

I implore you in the name of Christ to make amends for your deeds.

       "Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes
        an enemy of God." -- James 4:4b NIV

I feel J. Furr is in someway responsible.  What other motive does J.Furr
have except to incite anger by adding gasoline to a burning house.  You
felt that FurryMUCK was sinful.  So is the whole planet,  Fumigating the
problem is not the answer.  I've run into worse than FurryMUCK in my
modeming days. I just don't participate in it.  I voice my indignation
at sin, (even my own) but I don't try to get rid of it.  That's God's
job, not mine.  Jesus cleanses sin and guilt to get rid of it.  We can't
wish sin away because then sacrifice on the cross is meaningless.
What's the point?  If humanity can get rid of it's sin (conscience
choice to do wrong), there is no need for someone else, let alone God
to bother trying.  IF sin was never meant to be an option to us, why the
tree?  Why the choice?  Humanity is a creature (creation) of choice.

I would recommend John Fischer's _Real Christians [don't] Dance_ and
_True Believers [Don't] Ask Why_ for some real answers. (Bethany House
Publishers.)  We're in the world, not of it but alot of times, we
(christians) are of the world in our own little way.

TV>Happy New Year, Furry.  Honest.

TV>Ooops!  Almost forgot to say who I am.  Targhan.
  >| Disclaimer:  I said it; I meant it; so sue me.  |    Gravity is a myth;
  >| Ted Vessenes (mtymp06@epx.cis.umn.edu)          |     the Earth sucks.

Sue?!  Charge maybe, this is serious business that you have gotten
yourself into.  Cooperation and righting the wrong might be your only
salvation literally.  As one other person has said.  Why don't you do
something constructive ... coming foreward to sysadmin at your site is
positive step foreward.  You already made made the first one.
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 . SLMR 2.1a . Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
                          
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