Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!csccat!loci
From: loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: No games or picture files for now
Message-ID: <951@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 22:38:10 GMT
References: <2350@slvblc.UUCP> <1577@hoqax.UUCP> <76@uisc1.UUCP> <300@sdrc.UUCP> <179@usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <162@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: clb@loci.uucp (CLBrunow)
Organization: Loci Products
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In article <162@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>In article <179@usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM>, musson@usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Scott Musson) writes:
>> I don't understand how a moderator can decide that utilities are good
>> and games are bad!!  If someone has taken the time and effort to write
>> a game for our use and wants to share it with us, more power to him.
>
>i have extreme trouble with this entire discussion.  it should be quite
>obvious why games are less important than utilities.  utilities are
>productive, games aren't.

	Let me provide a productive use for games: my children, ages
	6 and 7, have learned spelling, vocabulary, percentages, etc.
	by playing (Usenet) games like "hack". They have also learned
	to be better chess players from "chess" and have learned basic
	computer literacy because of the lure of games.

>
>i am the only programmer here, so i don't have other programmers i can
>go ask for help or get tools off of.  basically, if i don't have it
> ...
>had flex been displaced by spacewars or nudie-pix-part-5, i would
>have been s.o.l, and it would have cost REAL money.  if nudie-pix-part-5
>gets dumped, no big deal.  [ unless i'm jim swagart or gary hart ;-) ]
>
>- john.
> UUCP: ...!killer!rpp386!jfh                          jfh@rpp386.uucp :SMAILERS

	This whole argument is artificial, and I think you know it.
	"killer" has archives of EVERYTHING, and it's a local call.
	Besides, many of us have seen your postings describing "rpp386"
	as an archive site.

	If your point is that your option is to pay REAL money for the
	tools, why is that unreasonable? After all, you get paid REAL
	money to be the only programmer there, don't you? It is a
	commercial business that charges customers REAL money, isn't it?

	"killer" is a perfect example of what can be done to reduce
	repetitive postings. A recent posting describing the facilities
	was submitted by Bill Wisner (billw@killer) and there's no
	point in repeating it, but it represents a prototype for what
	can be done to handle Usenet in an intelligent way. Every major
	city could and should have a major archiving site. Now, who
	will volunteer?


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