Newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sun2!peabody.iusb.indiana.edu!mkinyon
From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Re: Do NOT reply to more TEA posts until reading this
Message-ID: <CuFxs3.KMz@sun2.iusb.indiana.edu>
Sender: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Nntp-Posting-Host: peabody.iusb.indiana.edu
Organization: Indiana Unixversity South Bend
References: <32e2rt$t65@search01.news.aol.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 21:16:50 GMT
Lines: 41

In article <32e2rt$t65@search01.news.aol.com>,
TEAddition <teaddition@aol.com> wrote:
[snip]

>So anyway, after a few months my mailbox began to fill with questions on
>games, and for a while it was nice.  Eventually, though, I was getting
>about fifty messages DAILY from the same fifteen people, some of them
>getting hostile with me for taking more than three hours to get back to
>them.  I couldn't deal with it, so I dropped off of the Internet.

I had the same thing happen to me with one particular game, Curses.
And yes, it is rather amazing how rude some people can be if you are
not connected to the Internet at all hours of the day.  

>When I came back a few weeks ago, I wanted to make it clear that I did not
>want it to happen again.  I guess you could say that I over-reacted.

Actually, the easiest way to make it not happen is not to respond to 
posts requesting hints.  I no longer reply to posted requests for hints
for Curses.  As a result, I no longer have my mailbox flooded with them.
Of course in your case, you were giving hints for more than one game,
so the analogy is not perfect.

>So, my apologies to everyone, especially concerning that Myst spoiler. 
>Maybe we can back up a bit and forget that I ever posted those messages
>(although from what I've seen in the past concerning other people who pull
>the same kind of stunt I pulled, the Internet tends to have a long and
>unforgiving memory).

Hey, this the rec heirarchy, not the alt heirarchy!  This is where people
are always willing to start over.  Come on over to rec.arts.int-fiction; 
a lot of the threads you started belong over there anyway.  That group can 
always use a little stirring up (it tends to turn into a technical forum on 
TADS and Inform).  Play devil's advocate by all means.

I even promise not to put you in my kill file. ;-) 
-- 
Michael Kinyon			 | mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu
Dept of Mathematics & Comp. Sci. |
Indiana University South Bend    |
South Bend, IN 46634 USA         |
