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Message no. 1
From: Hatchetman <Hatchetman@****.CZEST.PL>
Subject: Searching for PBEM players.
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 22:39:20 +0100
Somebody wants to play PBEM game in fantasy world ?
Join us ! We need two more players...
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* HATCHETMAN (a.k.a. Bednar) *
* a poor being with only e-mail access *
* *
* E-Mail: Hatchetman@****.czest.pl *
* From: Czestochowa, Poland, Europe, Earth. *
* *
* Waiting for response... *
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Message no. 2
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Searching for PBEM players.
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:52:28 -0800
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Hatchetman wrote:
> *********************************************************
> * HATCHETMAN (a.k.a. Bednar) *
> * a poor being with only e-mail access *
> * *
> * E-Mail: Hatchetman@****.czest.pl *
> * From: Czestochowa, Poland, Europe, Earth. *
> * *
> * Waiting for response... *
> *********************************************************
>
>

What an ORIGINAL handle...(as I severly doubt that you are the owner of
whatever inspired the character)..

No offence but if every one used the name of thier favorite SR character
the net would be just RIFE with "Ghost"s, "Dodger"s, (well, there
already
is a Fastjack, and I think I've seen a few others) and every other famous
SR persona..

Ever notice in the Fantasy sites the number of plagarized names and
handles...

Sure I guess its "cool" or something, but please, show a little
imagination. I have/had one player who took every character he played
from some book or novel he'd just read (name and everything)..It got old
REAL fast.

Sure we all pirate software and drek like that, but don't pirate someones
NAME...Is nothing sacred. That little guidline about not posting with
someone elses name should almost apply.

One last thing, I liked someone who can't comeup with an original name to
people who say F--k every other word..they apparently don't seem to have
enough up-stairs to comeup with something intelligent to say...

(Zim gets down off of his soap box)

-- Oh, by the way, if you DO have a GOOD reason for having "Hatchetman" as
a handle, well then I apologize profusely..otherwise.

-Zim (flames dutifuly accepted)
Message no. 3
From: C J Anderson <nitehawk@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Searching for PBEM players.
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:31:37 -0600
Tim Cooper wrote:
> <Big Snip>
> On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Hatchetman wrote:> No offence but if every one used the name
of thier favorite SR character
> the net would be just RIFE with "Ghost"s, "Dodger"s, (well, there
already
> is a Fastjack, and I think I've seen a few others) and every other famous
> SR persona..
>
> Ever notice in the Fantasy sites the number of plagarized names and
> handles...
>
> Sure I guess its "cool" or something, but please, show a little
> imagination. I have/had one player who took every character he played
> from some book or novel he'd just read (name and everything)..It got old
> REAL fast.
>
> Sure we all pirate software and drek like that, but don't pirate someones
> NAME...Is nothing sacred. That little guidline about not posting with
> someone elses name should almost apply.
>
> One last thing, I liked someone who can't comeup with an original name to
> people who say F--k every other word..they apparently don't seem to have
> enough up-stairs to comeup with something intelligent to say...
>
> (Zim gets down off of his soap box)
>
> -- Oh, by the way, if you DO have a GOOD reason for having "Hatchetman" as
> a handle, well then I apologize profusely..otherwise.
>
> -Zim (flames dutifuly accepted)

Just one question.... Are you on this list for some constructive
purpose or just to nitpick? (You must be a pain in the postierior to
play with.....)

nitehawk
(and I earned that handle, "Zim")

=======================nitehawk@******.net
Message no. 4
From: John Pederson <Canthros@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Searching for PBEM players.
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:35:42 -0500
In a message dated 96-11-11 17:26:02 EST, you write:

<snipping HATCHETMAN's sig>
>>
>
>What an ORIGINAL handle...(as I severly doubt that you are the owner of
>whatever inspired the character)..
>
>No offence but if every one used the name of thier favorite SR character
>the net would be just RIFE with "Ghost"s, "Dodger"s, (well, there
already
>is a Fastjack, and I think I've seen a few others) and every other famous
>SR persona..
>
>Ever notice in the Fantasy sites the number of plagarized names and
>handles...
>
>Sure I guess its "cool" or something, but please, show a little
>imagination. I have/had one player who took every character he played
>from some book or novel he'd just read (name and everything)..It got old
>REAL fast.
>
>Sure we all pirate software and drek like that, but don't pirate someones
>NAME...Is nothing sacred. That little guidline about not posting with
>someone elses name should almost apply.
>
>One last thing, I liked someone who can't comeup with an original name to
>people who say F--k every other word..they apparently don't seem to have
>enough up-stairs to comeup with something intelligent to say...
>
>(Zim gets down off of his soap box)
>
>-- Oh, by the way, if you DO have a GOOD reason for having "Hatchetman" as
>a handle, well then I apologize profusely..otherwise.
>
>-Zim (flames dutifuly accepted)

I guess you missed the last time we had this discussion, but it really isn't
any of your business to slam a person because they didn't use an "original"
name. I don't believe this really applies to me (I use the handle Canthros
at times because it was the last name of a former SR character of mine), but
I don't think that it's right to slam somebody because they don't measure up
to your personal standards of creativity. I would be very irate if someone
used the handle I reserve for myself, however, since you don't have previous
claim on any of those names, when did it become your place to criticize
others, listmembers or otherwise, over what they use as an alias? To be
honest with you, I don't see it as being worthwhile to even consider slamming
someone over what they use as their handle, if they were to use the name of a
character from a story I had written, I think I might be irate at first, but
I think that then I'd be somewhat flattered, as the saying goes, "imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery". Besides, I have trouble coming up with
names most days, if someone else has the same problem, why should I pick on
them for something I have trouble with? I wouldn't be too worried about it
unless someone with the right to do something about it, like FASAMike, for
instance, takes serious offense at it. Until then, it's none of my business.

Canthros-the-irate-over-handle-slamming-shapeshifter-mage

John Pederson "God is dead"
canthros@***.com -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 to 1900)
lobo1@****.com "Nietzsche is dead"
http://members.gnn.com/lenoj/johns.htm -God (everlasting to everlasting)

"Only dead fish swim with the stream."

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