From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.tiny,news.admin.policy,rec.humor,alt.fan.furry
Subject: Re: Quicksilver virus on furry Muck
Date: 2 Jan 1993 10:59:34 -0800
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

QUICK background. Yozduk@cs.utexas.edu installed a virus on FurryMUCK to
log people's public and private actions and dialogue. Bad enough, but now
we have random snide remarks from jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu about people's
motivations.

Comments in { } by Yozduk, comments in [ ] by jfurr@polaris, everything else
from me:
>{ I think that what we did
>gather will show all of the furries out there a bit about themselves and
>their motives for the entire MUCK experience.  Tinysex runs rampant on that
>muck, and I bow before you in taking one step to prevent it, if only for a
>short while. }

  Somehow, I think it just shows how juvenile your mentality is, more than
anything else. Boasting about spreading a virus program is hardly the sign of
a superior intellect.

>Johnny at Johnny's Hot Tub Room> Johnny purrs, "two minutes!"
>{ehhhhh... wrong.  11:58 started this log, bozo!}

  Huh? Or are you so dense, Yozduk, that you can't do basic math? Midnight -
11:58 = two minutes, remember.

>Cyberskunk at West Corner of The Park> You page, "Oh, I was trying to talk
>with someone on here, and my brother and mother came in here, and had dinner
>in the room, and kept talking, and I was trying to snuggle, and she really
>wanted to snuggle, and they just kept coming and going and asking me
>questions, and it was costing the other person money to call here. By the
>time they left in RL, she had to go, too." to Erratica.
>[Looks like Cyberskunk won't be getting any tiny sex tonight...]
>{... and aint that a shame?  a couple of minutes without Furry tinysex}

  Incredible how both these guys associate "snuggling" with "tinysex". I know
for a fact that TS was not on Cyberskunk's mind, but you two are too self-
engrossed to believe that, I'm sure.

>Cyberskunk at West Corner of The Park> You say, "Hi, Babs."
>[Whoops!  Here's Cyberskunk again!  His last shot at sex didn't work so now
>here is try number 2]

  Aren't we jumping to conclusions a little quickly?

>Blackwolf at Underground Nexus> You page, "Hold on, I've taken quite a liking
>to Alodara here and want to see if she wants to come along" to Conway.
>[So how many tiny sex offers is that now?  I think we are up to 4 now.
>Maybe all these furries should get a life and find something better to do
>than PRETEND to have sex.  PRETEND.  But maybe thats all they can get.]
>{*shrug* ... sounds plausible to me}

  Does this count? I mean, _really_. You two can turn "Hello, how are you
today?" into an offer to have sex, tiny or not.

>Yozduk at Johnny's Hot Tub Room> You say, "I love this!"
>[This is guaranteed to be a memorable one. :) ]

  I wonder what's worse, people who are fixiated with getting tinysex and
nothing else (as some furries DO tend to behave), or people who have nothing
better to do than write infectious software and cause electronic vandalism.
At least the folks engaged in TS are minding their own business...

>Bobcat at Johnny's Hot Tub Room> You purr, "Gott~ra g/{..."
>[Gott~ra g/{?  What on EARTH is a gott~ra g/{?]
>{could that be some furry language, oh wait, I see now: 'Gotta go' after
>the typos take effect.}
>[And who would have thought that 'Master-typer Bobcat' would make a typo that
>fubar-ish!]

  Line noise, probably. But nah, you two are so set in your inflammatory ways
that you have to interpret it in a negative light...

>Sevnara at Johnny's Hot Tub Room> You chime "Yozduk...I'm getting an error on
>cmd-callpage."
>[we are up to 6 people...  6 clueless people...]
>{you'd think by now someone would have at least listed the program to find
>the error, or maybe to see what was going on.  But who knows, the code wasn't
>*that* different from the original :) }
        :
>Cyberskunk at West Corner of The Park> You page, "I'm not getting any page
>messages from you. Just an error msg." to Yozduk.
>[Someone please give this guy a new brain.  His current one is faulty.
>Why is he trying to page Yozduk telling Yozduk that page doesn't work?
>And he STILL has not figured it out that Yozduk should not own the page
>program.]

  Aren't we assuming that every "clueless" person here wants to be a MUCK
programmer? How about John Q. User, who just uses "page" because it's there,
and actually assumes Yozduk was working on it for a good reason? Guess they
must be clueless, thinking Yozduk was innocent...

>Karen_Larson at Lyle and Karen Larson's Abode> Karen_Larson says, "I suddenly
>have five actions I didn't have before, and I don't know if I should recycle
>them or what."
>[Duh... GEE!  I don't know!]
>{I don't think you should recycle them.  Wouldn't be a good idea.}

  Probably be more prudent to @recycle the people who created the actions.

  Actually, using the word "people" to describe Yozduk and jfurr@polaris
is probably an insult to humanity as a whole.

>Chris at West Corner of The Park> You say, "Someone dies a LOT."
>{yep, I think Chris has figured it out.  Well, is my char being killed enough
>for you?}

  Not enough for me.

>[Well there you have it folks!  The crashing of furry all in a nice, neat
>little log file for your reading enjoyment!  Take care! -- Yozduk & Co.]

  I don't know where these two clods come from, but I get the distinct
impression that they got their juvenile kicks from a New Year's Eve romp of
vandalism and voyeurism. Their views of Tinysex and FurryMUCK and furries
notwithstanding, it's just plain wrong. It's one thing to @recycle Yozduk's
character, but that's not enough -- someone should contact the administrators
of their computer accounts and lob some high-ordinance disciplinary action in
their direction.

  I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like this.

>{One last thing: What are your new year's resolutions?}

  To nuke Yozduk@cs.utexas.edu and jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu into little
puddles of radioactive protoplasm.

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-(

P.S. For the record, I was not caught by the virus or in the log. I do know a
lot of the folks who were logged, though, and to watch these two clods trample
over their privacy is very infuriating.

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