bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) (03/07/85)
> I have received numerous net.people junk mail with things > like this: > > don't flame unless you find the problem. > The problem is it doesn't work. > > and did you uudecode it? > Do you think I am dumb? The instructions said: > >Here is the public domain version of Atari's arcade game > >"STARGATE". It requires an IBM PC with a color graphics > >card. This file has been uuencoded so to unpack it, cut it > >at the mark and type > > > >% uudecode <filename> > And the silly... > > Are you sure you downloaded it correctly? > Geez, but I AM NOT DUMB, at least not like these > mail messages. > > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////// > The Hacker > hou2e!ksl > ///////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ At this point, would whoever is in charge of ksl's machine please take his news privileges away? He is obviously completely unaware of the rules of etiquette, both of the net and of life in general. Mr. ksl, Believe it or not, the people you call dumb, silly, etc., were actually trying to help you -- this is their only crime. You see, the problem is that the majority of us (including myself) had no problem downloading and then executing this game. We appreciated having it posted (although now that it is apparently non-public-domain, we shall probably have to throw it away anyhow), and hated to see you flame the poster because of your apparently unique set of problems. A little politeness would have gone a long way toward making your views palatable to me, at least... *SIGNED* Bart Massey ...tektronix!reed!bart P.S. -- Shouldn't there be a net.sources.games.d newsgroup for this kind of thing? Sorry about posting it to a sources group, but I didn't know where else the readers of this group would see it...