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t...@CS.CMU.EDU  writes:
> In article <uplink.757825251@cwis> upl...@cwis.unomaha.edu (John M. Scheibeler) writes:
> 
>    	For those of you who don't know, here at the University of Nebraska
>    at Omaha, DOOM has been banned from play, and anyone caught with it
>    AUTOMATICALLY loses their account.  (From what I hear, mind you.)
> 
> IBM PC's running DOS don't have accounts, I thought.  What do you
> mean?  Interpreted literally, you are saying that if I have DOOM on
> diskettes, and the diskettes are in my pocket and they accidentally
> fall out of my pocket in front of the wrong official, then I would
> lose my account.  This is absurd; the penalty should be for playing
> it, not having it.
> 
>    This might seem a little harsh to those dedicated DOOM fans out there,
>    but the problem came when DOOM was installed on the LANs here.  Every time
>    someone played DOOM, a message would be sent to every other computer and
>    account where someone had played DOOM, asking if that person would also like
>    to play.
> 
> This isn't the problem description I've heard.  The past posts to this
> group have only concerned broadcasts that happen during the course of
> play, not while setting up play.  Several network managers told me
> that non-network doom does not send broadcast packets.  If you can
> post a direct quote from the official policy statement about this at
> the University of Nebraska at Omaha, then I'd be very interested in
> seeing it.
> --
> Tim Freeman <t...@cs.cmu.edu>    
> Do you call yourself free?  I want to hear your ruling idea, and not
> that you have escaped from a yoke.  -- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche

I think he means playing it on our schools computers or in 
connection with them. And I go to UNO and totally missed this,
'cause we have been on break. Also, since we are a local 
commuter college, we have no dorms so I do not really
know a lot of people here.

I guess this does mean people in Omaha are playing this, have
to get in touch with them to play the reg version when 1.2
patch comes out..


Wheee

Dave
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