A New Game for the GS!

[tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk (Richard King)]

AIMED DIRECTLY AND EXCLUSIVELY AT --> jlee@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
 
> Subject: A New Game for the GS!
> Date: 12 May 1994 02:01:58 GMT
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A New Game for the GS!------
> [ Article crossposted from comp.binaries.apple2 ]
> [ Author was Richard King (tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk) ]
> [ Posted on Thu, 12 May 1994 01:08:47 GMT ]
 
> Will you please post a description with this post.  It's really,
> really annoying, when people post binaries without descriptions or
> proper credit for the author of the program.  You know who you are.
 
I do. My name is Richard King - you will observe that this is the same
name as is in the header of the binary to which you object in such an
impertinent fashion. The program is a Game, defined as a means of
amusement or play, and it is New: that means is is not someone else's
work, previously seen elsewhere.
 
This is sufficient in both attribution and description for any reasonable
person - those who wish to know more can unbinscii it and unshrink it,
and they will find both a full description of the game and complete
details of the author (namely, ME!) in the program. If you were a
reasonably intelligent person, you might infer that the author of a new
game is quite likely to be the same person as the uploader of it.
 
I know who you are, too. You are a mannerless geek, and if you lived on
this side of the Pond, I'd be sorely tempted to punch your freaking
lights out, in the probably vain hope of teaching you some decent
behaviour. A polite request for further information would be perfectly
acceptable - aggressive and bad-tempered demands are not, and will be
responded to IN KIND. Consider yourself publicly spanked and humiliated.
I consider you to be a fool, who knows no better. How *dare* you flame
me, when I've taken the trouble to upload my work for you? 
 
You find it annoying that you didn't get a full and complete description
in front of the file? ANNOYING? People who behave on the net as you do
make me LIVID WITH FURY!!!! GET SOME BLOODY MANNERS! And learn netiquette
before you criticise someone else - binary groups are NOT meant to have
text messages posted to them, nor are files posted to them supposed to
have great slabs of readable text on the front.
 
{My apologies to others for this blast - I am so angry that I decided to
make my outburst in public. jlee didn't have the courtesy to email me
privately, so I won't accord him the courtesy of replying in private.}


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Obey little, question much - Walt Whitman | The only thing my GS hasn't
Specialisation is for ants - Lazarus Long | got is a go-faster stripe.
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