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From: daybell@nunki.usc.edu (Donald Daybell)
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Subject: Re: SimEarth planet specs
Keywords: simearth, earth, bad_taste
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Date: 5 Feb 91 07:20:50 GMT
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In article <18417@brahms.udel.edu> moyer@brahms.udel.edu (Eric Moyer) writes:
>
>  I don't normally belinger copy protection discussions or flame users,
>but  Bryce Chackerian's offer to E-mail SimEarth planet specs in
>article 2800 is in ridiculusly bad taste and unsound judgement.
>  If people bought the thing, they can damn well spend 15 minutes making
>a crib sheet if they want one.
>
>  Bryce, I find your behavior is loathsome and ill-thought in every way. 

I second this opinion.  It's jerks like this that will cause software
companies to go back to the uncopyable disks of the past; a REAL BUMMER for
those of us who want to use a hard drive!  Do you really want EVERY game
to be as much of a pain as the original Strategis Conquest?????

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