Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!fornax!jl From: jl@fornax.uucp (JL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: New Game: ASTROTIT Part 1 of 2 Message-ID: <341@fornax.uucp> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 10:46:07 EDT Article-I.D.: fornax.341 Posted: Mon Jul 13 10:46:07 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 01:12:45 EDT References: <3758@spool.WISC.EDU> <2749@ncoast.UUCP> <364@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <368@devon.UUCP> <3509@ecsvax.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 50 > I disagree that the psoting was specific enough about the degree > of obscenity contained in this game. In fact some people might > actually consider this sufficent grounds for closing down a > computer or two. I think there are laws about using public > communications systems i.e. the post and the phone system > for the transmission of obscene material. > > I downloaded it, decoded and ran it once. I decided it was the > sort of purile humor that makes children write rude messages > on the bathroom wall. Apart from that it was a good program, but > I destroyed it anyway - I wouldn't want my kids seeing this. > > Mike Gingell ...decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg > > P.S. if any University Computer Systems has this program on file > I suggest they destroy it, they might get in big trouble from > local guardians of public morals. A warning was posted. You were warned. If there is one thing that I cannot stand it is people that want someone to hold their hand until the day they die. YOU downloaded the program, read the warnings, decoded the program, loaded the program into the computer and ran it. If you didn't like what you saw, then fine, erase the file. But don't start preaching to the rest of us. Why does everyone seem to want to blame someone ELSE for their own actions? If someone had tied you to a chair, taped your eyelids open, held your head right at the computer screen and forced you to watch this program, then you would have a valid complaint and I would support you all the way. But it was you, You, YOU, Y O U!!!!! While we are on the subject, who died and left you in charge of public morals. If any University Computer Systems has this program on file I hope they certainly do NOT destroy it. The so called 'local guardians of public morals' are in reality nothing a bunch of sniveling, snotty cowards who hide behing cries of 'saving' people from themselves. Well, I am quite capable of deciding for myself what I do and do not care to run on my computer, as is any other intelligent human being. So go crawl in a hole someplace and get someone to cover you over with about 6 feet of dirt, because it is obvious that you would be better off ( and probably happier ) there. -- Jay-El