From: dank@calvin.usc.edu (Dan King)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: What did I do?
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:29:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: calvin.kuud92INNea3
Reply-To: dank@usc.edu
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu


Sigh....Where do these people come from?  I really didn't want to
reply to this, much less do it in public, but I'm going to make
one last stab at beating some sense into a very clueless head.

First off, Yian Chang says (in a post as well as email to me):

In some article, ychang@physics.ucla.edu (Yian Chang) writes:
|> In some article lkimes@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes) writes:
|> >
|> >In some article, ychang@physics.ucla.edu (Yian Chang) writes:
|> >|> Hi all,
|> >|>   I really hate to post this, but I can't help.
|> >|>   About one hour ago (11:00pm 4/15 Wed.), I was on calvin.usc.edu as a guest.
|> >|> I was R8.  I was killed by Oa a few times and I killed him a few times and we
|> >|> had some quarrel.  Then he said why didn't I leave so that others who wanted
|> >|> to play could play.  Excuse me but I think I was playing, so I said why did't
|> >|> you leave.  A few minutes later, I was killed by "GOD".  After that, I tried
|> >|> to get in again, I only saw one of my teammate asked "What did he do" before
|> >|> the server broke my connection.  May I ask what did I do?  I cloaked to avoid
|> >|> being killed is not allowed?  I havn't seen this kind of GOD before, is this
|> >|> the right attitude?
|> >|>   Sorry again for wasting the bandwidth and dumping this shxt to all of you.
|> >|> But I just can't help!
|> >|> --Yian Chang (ychang@physics.ucla.edu)

OK, as I explained to Mr Chang at great length in email, I did not kill his ship.
I have no idea why he thinks I did.  I was nowhere near my office, computer(s),
or the game at the time he mentions.  Furthermore, careful examination of my logs
shows me no one else was using my account either.  Therefore, he was not killed
by divine intervention.  He seems unable to accept this and has repeatedly attacked
me in email.  When I kill someone, it's for a reason and I'll always explain it
when asked.  I don't hide anything.

I did ban Mr Chang from my server for aggravated stupidity (in his email to me)
after warning him that continuing to accuse me would result in his having to move
to another server.  Now he posts to the net.  Sigh...

One possible reason for his ship exploding was mentioned by Lance Kimes, a local
systems "weenie" (Hi, Lance!) at USC:
>Lose the 'Oh, the mean bad man hurt me' sob story. usc local network had
>continual problem on & off again last night until it final died all together for
>about half. At one point last night every single player outside of campus was blown
>off, & half the ones on campus.

To which, Mr Chang says:
|> would that problem make me see a message like this:
|>   utterly obliterated
|> 
|> sounds impossible to me, how about you?
I don't know.  I can tell you that no one xtkill'ed you.  I've repeated this to
you about ten times and yet you still insist on accusing me of being a liar.

I think it's probably a good thing you won't be playing on calvin, you're taking
the game much, much too seriously.

|> Yian Chang
|> UCLA
Dan King
Admin, calvin.usc.edu netrek server