From: botelle@widget.seas.upenn.edu (Justin R. Botelle)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek,alt.games.xtrek
Subject: Ogging
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:35:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.games.netrek
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


In article <1992Apr7.051913.2594@reed.edu> ameiba@reed.edu (Keith Steiger) writes:
>I was playing in a nice little Fed-Ori war on bronco, when someone I do not
"nice"?  This is a war!!

>know and have only played against occasionally--"SS Botany Bay", otherwise
>known as botelle@pixmap.seas.upenn.edu--starts ogging me CONTINUALLY.  I ask
Know first I posted that 00 had been registered for harassment, and then
I started ogging you.  I only ogged you about 5 times, and several of those
times you actually had kills.


>him why I'm so special in a private message, and he comes back with a cute
I'm so coy

>non-answer, so I ignore it and just play my game.  Later, he sends a message
>to ALL saying "The threat of O0 has been effectively neutralized."  Being
>that I was O0, I complained to ALL.  It turned out that he had a friend in
Boy, can't you take a joke??  

>the wait queue, and that he was ogging me in an attempt to annoy me so much
>that I'd leave the game.  
Well the friend was Freekill and he suggested that I bug someone, but I 
really could care less whether or not you left -- actually I was having fun
and would have been disappointed if you had left, since I had just gotten
bored of being at peace with MUCUS PIG, and tractoring him around, and 
otherwise following him.  I also detted on the Pig, killing him (though I
am sorry to him for having done this when he was orbiting Orion, as I heard
that he was away from his terminal  -- sorry), and another time got a wall
kill off him, while still at peace... But that got boring 8-(

>At this point, one of my teammates flames the
and using profanity, too -- ouch, feel the heat... (see next post)

>Botany Bay, and the oggmeister goes off to continually ogg that person
>instead.
(so then I left you alone)-- what is the big deal??

>
>Is this as lame as I think it is?  Now, I'm used to some strange and
>otherwise impolite behavior from MUCUS PIG and the like, but this was beyond
>the pale.  Admittedly, he did ogg other people when ogging was necessary,
>but when he didn't have anything better to do, he slammed into either me or
>O9 (I hate not being able to remember names.)  All in all, the whole
I only ogged you a few times, get real.. and if there is no one to kill, then
I will ogg the nearest person, or the base, if there is one, better than
standing idle.


>experience left a bad taste in my mouth and gave me the kind of aggravation
>that xtrek is supposed to relieve.

Wow -- I thought xtrek was supposed to create stress -- by taking away lots
of time from your studies.

>
>I'd particularly like other members of the UPenn INL team to comment on this
>whole scenario....

Please, waste more bandwidth (btw, Penn is UNDEFEATED-- and will stay that
way -- the Horsemen will kneel before our might (we have STREAKER, the best
at *everything)).


BTW, when I was ogging you, why not come up closer, then runner scum, and get
some free kills???

>
>Lt.Cmdr. ameiba, who is also...
>-- 
> Keith Steiger--ameiba@reed.edu--"I am what you see.  I cannot be otherwise."
>  Disclaimer: Reed College tries very hard to ignore its students' opinions. 


Justin