Newsgroups: rec.games.mud
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:51:02 -0400 
From: "Sebastien V. Billard" <sb5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Get a clue! (powermongering and all that)
	<1992Jul21.043516.4369@seq.uncwil.edu>

hawks@seq.uncwil.edu (part-time criminal) writes:
> Geez I try to email someone so I dont add to this apparently senseless flame
> war which is accomplishing nothing.  Besides who am I to say, hey your on a 
> public means of communication and have invited the public to come enjoy your
> game and I do not think it is a right to verbally rape someone on the net.  
> I will get a clue if you somehow understand that others should respect others.
Yes.. they should.. and it would be really nice if they did.. but..
there aint a lot you can actually do about it..

> I am sure you can find many arguments to rip apart what I am saying but thats
> ok cause I wont be reading them.  Some say its only a game and some may play 
> it as that but for some its part of their life as in any recreational activity.
> You might also say well what if they get killed by a player or stolen from?
> What if they dont like the rules or a God/Goddess is harsh with them?  Anyone
> can tell the difference between verbally abusing someone with obscenties about
> performing activities on their body and the aforementioned items.  I have been
> labeled a liberal European and I can tell you that I think if you think any
> rape whatsoever is ok then I think you have a problem.  I am a God, Darkus on
It's not okay to rape someone.. but I think that calling what happens
on mud's rape i belitelling what a rape actually is...
on a mud you CAN runaway.... unlike a RL rape..

> Abyss (ps yes we are closed to foreign connections for good now, sorry), and
> I do not think because I run a mud on a machine that doesnt belong to me and
> on the internet that belongs to the public that I have a right to abuse my 
> status.  Lets remember too that you might have created your mud from scratch
> but without the internet that belongs to the public it wouldnt be there.  I am
> sorry for my apparently naivete that has caused me to hope that some people
> could respect there fellows.  Argue all you want on this posting cause I wont
> be reading it.  Hopefully someone will be on my side as I hope there are some
> nice people out there that think mud rape is only for worthless people who 
> with that sort of thinking are and will undoubtedly lead unhappy lives.
MUD abuse.. is bad.. it's irritating and it usually gets players
@toaded and locked out.. but.. if it's a god doing it.. or a wiz..or
someone who runs the game.. you can try to convince the other wizzes
that this did in fact happen, and MAYBE they will do something..
but that's a maybe..
this isn't a flame.. it's just a clarafication..
cause If I could find a way to.. I'd love to be able to stop idiots
how emote and tell/page obscinities at people....
but there is no real way to do it without the help of the local god
and wizzes.


Sebastien "Victor" Billard
	  "Psycho.. the original"

	|You have to know when to fold 'em|
	|Know when to hold 'em		  |
	|Know when to walk away.. 	  |
	|Know when to run..		  |

Rememer Green is Green, and Red is Red, but Yellow, is for speeding up so you don't get caught in that SILLY Red light thing.