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From: blane@eskimo.com (Brian Lane)
Subject: Re: Hmm.  This is getting obnoxious.
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Gerry Kevin Wilson (whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: Is it just me, or are these little advertisements growing more irritating 
: daily?  Not to mention that they seem to outnumber the legitimate posts 
: here on rai-f.  Maybe we should take the word 'fiction' out of the 
: newsgroup name.  It seems to draw adverts for the most bizarre magazines 
: like old meat draws maggots.  Ah well.

  I think it's happening everywhere, but is especially noticable in
low-volume groups(or high content :> ).

: ObText Adventures: Does anyone know the Copyright status of Edgar Rice 
: Burroughs' Barsoom works?  I've been considering a text adventure set there.

  Aren't some of these available in the gutenberg project? I would assume
anything that is being distributed for free(Twain's works, etc) would be
fair game for IF authors.

    Brian

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