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From: rsk@pucc-h (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Posting games
Message-ID: <1142@pucc-h>
Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 13:07:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1142
Posted: Thu Sep  6 13:07:32 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Sep-84 01:48:02 EDT
Organization: Purdue, THE Indiana University
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	(This seems as good a newsgroup as any...)

	The recent posting of game sources and paths to game sources has
caused a bit of a dilemna...what do those sites which do not permit users
to play games do about this?

	For example, here at Purdue, we (the computing center) do not allow
games on any of our systems; we simply don't have the spare cycles for it.
[BTW, before flames about "fascist policies" flow in: not my decision.]
The engineering net (ECN), across campus, allows games at certain times,
provided the load average is low enough.

	Now, I'm not against folks sending out their game sources; after all,
the folks at ECN may want to install a game like "mazewar" and put it under
their games-watching administration; but here at PUCC, we're going to be faced
with multiple copies of these things that we'll have to hunt down...

	Has anyone got any ideas on how we can spread fun software like this
around, but keep it out of the hands of folks who really shouldn't be running
it?
-- 
---Rsk

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