Re: DOOM Banned at College

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From: t... Timothy Freeman
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 15:59

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In article <2ghb1n$1...@antares.Austin.Lockheed.COM> pr0...@austin.lockheed.com (pr09027) writes:

   In article <CJ7ouM...@cs.cmu.edu>, Timothy Freeman <t...@CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:
   >In article <samathei.757848834@tortilla> sama...@tortilla.engr.ucdavis.edu (Sean Matheis) writes:
   >
   >   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 ..." :)
   >
   >Yes, I can imagine it too.  I can imagine lots of things, but that's
   >not the point.  I don't think DOOM behaves that way, and if it did,
   >the single notification to chancellor2 wouldn't add signifcant load to
   >the net.
   >--
   >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

     It would if you had a school of about 22,000 students and around 1,000
   machines connected all around campus.

Doom exists, so we don't have to go through all this hypothetical
crap.  Does it do this or not?  
--
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

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From: t...@CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman)
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Subject: Re: DOOM Banned at College
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