🚀 go-pugleaf

t...@CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman) 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.

Uh, some PC networks require a login usercode to access network drives,
etc (3Com does). I can imagine that user joe1 logs in, boots up DOOM net
and chancellor2 gets a message "Please join the DOOM game on ..." :)

Boy, what a feeling it would be to blow away the "chancellor" in a DOOM
game, esp w/ a plasma rifle 
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