Re: Elite IV

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From: Graham Thurlwell
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:23

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On the 10 Jan 2009, Bret Ripley <ripley@gotsky.com> wrote:

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> Elite IV's development arc was one of the minor (but persistent)
> side-threads back when this froup was fairly active. The group's raison
> d'etre, of course, was ... I forget. I think it had something to do with
> Bill Huffman.

IIRC, csipg.strategic and csipg.flight-sim decided that discussing 
games where you flew around selling drugs and fluffy animals to aliens 
wasn't sufficiently on-topic and ran us out of town on a rail. Or 
something like that.

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From: Graham Thurlwell <nospam@jades.org>
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