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- From: shadow@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Matt Mosley)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: /summon command?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.211430.11998@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 21:14:30 GMT
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- In article <BttA7o.BAz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman) writes:
- >jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
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- >This idea would be veeeery bad. I can already see it: ppl/bots mass summoning
- >to flood people with mail. I don't see a real need for a summon. Sure it
- >would be neat, but you can just as easily talk/write/e-mail them. My $.02
- >worth.
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- I agree. It would be a *very* bad idea. What's the problem with the current
- implementation, anyway?
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- --Matt
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