Aucbarpa.1169
net.games.rogue
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:ecc
Mon Apr 19 23:05:41 1982
A few words from the author of gcore
Gcore can be used to cheat at rogue.
Unless certain obvious steps are taken by system administrators,
it can be used for much more antisocial things.

Since it's not my business to be your conscience,
I'm still willing to mail a copy of the program to any site
that wants one (although I had no knowledge of all this 
rogue business when Gordon Hamachi asked me about distributing it.)

But here are the restrictions:
	1. Please send only one request per site.
	2. Please install it in /usr/public or someplace similar
	   and notify your user community, rather than hoarding it somewhere. 
I'm not going to make any attempt to enforce either of these;
please observe them out of courtesy.
It's up to your system administrator to decide whether
the protection on /dev/kmem and /dev/mem should be changed.

The UNIX tradition has favored cooperation and friendly anarchy
rather than competition and authoritarianism.
Rogue seems to promote the latter.
I'm saddened that the steps that would have to be taken to prevent the
abuse of gcore would lead in the same direction.

	Eric Cooper