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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Warning about More
Message-ID: <13185@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 14:14:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 14:14:26 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:30:13 EDT
References: <5954@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
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| In article <5954@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> shulman@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jeff Shulman) writes:
| >
| >[ This is being posted by me on behalf of Larry Loeb ]
| >
| >The following message hit the net about a week ago:
| >
| >>Subject: Warning about More
| >>From: ix21@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (David Whiteman @ U.C. San Diego, Academic Computere
| >>nter)
| >>-- 
| >>David Whiteman,
| >>University of California, San Diego 
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| >I don't know who David Whiteman is, and neither does UCSD!  We have no record
| >of him having ever called Living Videotext, nor is he a registered user of
| >any of our products.
| >
| >I called UCSD's Academic Computing Center, and spoke with their director, 
| >Jerry Fitzsimmons.  He's never heard of "David Whiteman".
| >
| >Apparently he has some grievance with Living Videotext, and I wish he would
| >first explain, 1) who he is and 2) where and when he got MORE. 
| >
| >I want to go on the record as saying that MORE does not have any problems of
| >the nature as "Mr. Whiteman" describes, and that it is almost unthinkable that
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| >
| >I think the point of unscrupulous users conducting economic sabotage
| >on the net is well taken. If anyone has knowledge of this "Mr. Whiteman"
| >please have him send me mail at the address below.
| >
| >--Larry Loeb, moderator of BIX macintosh conference
| >uucp:...decvax!yale!spock!lloeb                      BIX:lloeb
| >Delphi:ELEL                                          CI$:72466,1465
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We may have even more sabotage around. Take a look below:

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| From: ix21@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (David Whiteman)
| Newsgroups: net.sources.mac,net.micro.mac
| Subject: Adventure Game
| Message-ID: <2860@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
| Date: 14 Sep 86 19:46:04 GMT
| Date-Received: 16 Sep 86 04:56:56 GMT
| Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
| Lines: 19
| Xref: amdcad net.sources.mac:1356 net.micro.mac:8085
| 
| I just posted in net.sources.mac an adventure written by a friend of
| mine.  He used World Builder, which is the same program used to
| write Encanted Scepters which is a commercial program.  Even though
| it is a very long program I am sure you will enjoy it.  Just don't
| take it to seriously and keep it mind that it is a first effort at
| adventure writing.  Commands are entered both by typing commands
| and pointing at various objects with the mouse.
| 
| This program was tested on a MacPlus only.  It should work on a 512K
| Mac, but one was not available for testing -- it may even work on a
| 128KMac.  I will gladly forward any comments or any requests for
| help.
| 
| 
| -- 
| David Whiteman,
| University of California, San Diego 
| 
| The America Cup, don't leave Perth without it.
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I had kept this around, waiting to download it, (355K), I decided to
do a strings on it, found this:

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| This is not the original disk, or the disk is defective.
+---------------

This implied copy-protection to me, so I looked up the announcement
in net.micro.mac and recognized the name, as being the same joker
in the More problem.

I don't think I'll waste my time, effort and money downloading a
probably pirated, and/or non-working, practical joke. (355K!!).

Be warned!
-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 (408) 749-5806
 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4}!amdcad!jimb
 Compuserve:	72415,1200

Someday I'll learn not to fight with children.