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Article #106030Re: Elite IV
From: Bret Ripley
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:23:59 GMT, Graham Thurlwell wrote: > On the 10 Jan 2009, Bret Ripley <ripley@gotsky.com> wrote: > > <snip> > >> 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. The bastards. The least they could have done was run you out of town on a fluffy animal. > Or something like that. That's how I remember it. Bret
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