benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Eldarion ap Aragorn) (11/20/85)
[] Previous posters have been dancing around the *real* question. Namely, how shall we address the growing problems presented to our society by the multitudes of otherwise-normal adults who have an abuse problem? Net abuse is no laughing matter. Literally hundreds of nets now live with the secret shame of abuse, or of a long-past incident of abuse. Many are not able to lead normal lives. Perhaps even more tragic are the abusers themselves. They find themselves compelled to post fictitious "Monopoly" moves to bulletin boards; they find them- selves checking their e-mailboxes twice a day, looking for news from the front when they live in a nation at peace. They talk about things that, if one were to look closely, do not in fact exist. Like Gary Gygax. Or illusionists. Decades-worth of working time are wasted in reading and writing about utterly trivial and indeed horribly ludicrous actions. Five grown men have admitted that they are going to leave their wives and spend an entire weekend *indoors*, playing modular-ref'd D & D. There is only one thing worse than that. They didn't invite me. Keep posting, guys. -- Thomas Cox ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn