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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!mehlhaff
  2. From: mehlhaff@soda.berkeley.edu (ERic MeHlHaFf)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
  4. Subject: Re: Whatever happened to? Minimal clue server?
  5. Date: 18 Nov 1992 12:09:05 GMT
  6. Organization: The Dis-Orginization
  7. Lines: 22
  8. Message-ID: <1edbp1INN432@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <1ecpclINN1v1@agate.berkeley.edu> <1ed0j8INN85h@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. In article <1ed0j8INN85h@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> trown@ecst.csuchico.edu (Nick Trown) writes:
  13. >In article <1ecpclINN1v1@agate.berkeley.edu> jmn@crown.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) writes:
  14. >>Somebody had suggested something like:
  15. >>GOD-> R3 > Are you a twink? Send 'no' to yourself to keep playing in < 30sec
  16. >>R3-> R3 > no
  17. >>GOD-> R3 > Welcome aboard!
  18. >>
  19. >>Otherwise the twink gets ejected after 30 seconds....
  20. >
  21. >Well it is funny you should ask. I have just completed the modifications on
  22. >guzzler to do just this. It basically works by sending this:
  23. >
  24. [ message/response stuff deleted]
  25.  
  26. I don't suppose you thought of sending the player a warning of the effect
  27. "Captain, there's an important messge" and similar warnings that change with time, 
  28. sort of like what you get when self-destructing.  Keeping the Trek flavor
  29. alive, after all, is a good thing.
  30.  
  31. -- 
  32. ERic mehlhaff                       mehlhaff@soda.Berzerkeley.EDU
  33. mehlhaff@ocf.berkeley.EDU         "Life? Don't talk to me about life..." -Marvin
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