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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: do no appreciate
Message-ID: <249@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 02:23:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 02:23:21 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 06:11:16 EST
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(The flame misses --more--)

Gandalf,

        If you don't like getting this kind of mail then stop
making unsubstantiated comments about rogue in general, or at
LEAST admit that you were referring to one of the hacked versions
of rogue.  Anything can happen in a bastard rogue, and since
most of us out here have to make do with 3.6, 5.2, or 5.3, which
came on the distribution tape, don't blame us if we call you on
obvious inaccuracies as related to THOSE versions.  (People who
have these mythical versions 7.0 and advanced rogue can comment
on "gandalf's" accuracy on those versions.  I can have no opinion
on versions I don't have access to.)

As to the issue of being a total winner on a specific version,
if someone has bothered to grind through the 100 or so games
it takes to become a total winner in 3.6 or 5.3 (both of which
we have) I'm impressed, and am willing to admit that he probably
knows what he's talking about.  A handful of us rogues here
can just about generate a 'complete rogue spoiler' from memory.
I don't believe one should confine one's remarks to "I believe
'A cloak of darkness surrounds you' refers to a potion of blind-
ness" when someone on the net insists in a loud voice that it's
a potion of gain strength.  (My example.)  You made obvious
misstatements that needed to be cleared up, at least for the
sake of the less experianced roguers out there that might
BELIEVE you.  If this bothers you, start a net.games.rogue.hacked
and go your merry way.

You've probably been corrected on your current gaffe about
the scroll of food detection in 5.3 twenty times or so
by now.  Get your facts straight!

                        milord Oliver

--Total winner at 3.6  (I forget how many times)
--Total winner at 5.3 with the party room hack
--Total loser at vanilla 5.3.  (Damn this game!)
-- 

  "Where can you find			Ron Christian
a stale work environment		Watkins-Johnson Co.
  with excellent pay?"			San Jose, Calif.
	--bay area newspaper		(...ios!wjvax!ron)