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Message no. 1
From: mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject: Re: Will talk more for more food
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:06:16 -0500
> -- Blademaster <Time/Date>
^^^^^^^^^
Isn't this in the FAQ yet? Something about "you can't change your t/d until
the rest of the list decides the character would actually be able to"? Or
was a different verdict reached, and I missed it?

Mike Broadwater
"An object at rest cannot be stopped! Yeah, baby, yeah!" - The Evil
Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
Message no. 2
From: Brian Rogers <rogers@****.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Will talk more for more food
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:46:34 -0500
I didnt follow this last time but I've followed the other 4 or 5 discussions
that have been held on this topic over the last couple of years. Damn, now
I am doing it. Forgive me for feeling old / like one of the "old guard". Ill
explore this emotion / feeling a little later but for now I will just
continue -

The last time this game up, and believe me, its come up a lot, it
boiled down to "Only Deckers....good deckers" will be able to change their
T/D stamps in anyway. It is too much a pain in the ass to do / might piss off
the SysOp enough that he would ban you from ShadowLand for fucking with his
system's internals / bypassing system integrity(sp).

There have been people in the past that have had the gall to actually
say simple "Im too busy to try to write a time stamp for every last one of
the N messages I sent out per day" (Where N, in this person's case was something
like 2 messages, randomly, every couple of days). To this I say -- Read
the FAQ. There are at least 3 posted (and one that I wrote that has never
been posted even though mine is better than the one that FAQ writer did :P)
pieces of cool code that put time / date stamps in FOR YOU so you dont even
have to think about them. Isnt that neato?

See, if you use one of those, when you get done, you can think about
changing it but hopefully just the couple of microseconds it takes you to
remember to do so will be enough to remind you that it will be a pain in
the ass and at least 4 more keystrokes...so why bother?

I've watched Blademaster off and on for the last couple of months
(maybe only weeks, I cant remember) but he never struck me as being a decker
and the changing time/date stamp seemed out of place.

> > -- Blademaster <Time/Date>
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Isn't this in the FAQ yet? Something about "you can't change your t/d until
> the rest of the list decides the character would actually be able to"? Or
> was a different verdict reached, and I missed it?
>
> Mike Broadwater
> "An object at rest cannot be stopped! Yeah, baby, yeah!" - The Evil
> Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight
> http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
>
Message no. 3
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Re: Will talk more for more food
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:42:02 -0400 (EDT)
> > -- Blademaster <Time/Date>
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Isn't this in the FAQ yet? Something about "you can't change your t/d
> until the rest of the list decides the character would actually be able
> to"? Or was a different verdict reached, and I missed it?

I don't know if we actually came to an agreement on that one
or not.. what was the general consensus?

-Mark
Message no. 4
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Re: Will talk more for more food
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:44:10 -0400 (EDT)
> There have been people in the past that have had the gall to actually
> say simple "Im too busy to try to write a time stamp for every last one of
> the N messages I sent out per day" (Where N, in this person's case was
> something like 2 messages, randomly, every couple of days). To this I say
> -- Read the FAQ. There are at least 3 posted (and one that I wrote that
> has never been posted even though mine is better than the one that FAQ
> writer did :P) pieces of cool code that put time / date stamps in FOR YOU so
> you dont even have to think about them. Isnt that neato?

Send me a URL, and I'll stick it in the FAQ .. smart ass.. :-)

-mark

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