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<LI><em>From</em>: JC Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 20:30:17 -0800</LI>
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:21:45 PST8PDT
Jon A Lambert<jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com> wrote:
> On 6 Jan 98 at 15:49, Ling wrote:
> Oooo! Besides being an good short story, it poses an interesting
> problem for JC's time travel:
<bow>
> Bubba the loathesome troll deposits his loaded hankerchiefs
> seemingly randomly about the mud world, yet in strategic places.
> Assume that no one in their right mind would wish to pick up and own
> one of these items and that their decay rate is rather slow since
> the contents are rather noxious even to the vilest of parasites.
> Bubba's player owner takes full advantage of free user programming
> and proceeds to write many macros; each of which time-travels about
> 5 seconds into the past into each object and "watches" for about 5
> seconds. In theory, Bubba would have established a complete
> strategic and well-disguised monitoring system with a mere 5 second
> delay, between "camera" switches.
Yup.
Of course I also see this as a Good Thing as he has invested
considerable effort and skill in devising the system, and that system
requires considerable attention to derive useful data. I have no
problem in his getting a good return on that effort.
> Well maybe I shouldn't have said problem, since many things that I
> might consider problems are JC's "interesting and desireable
> side-effects". ;)
Yup.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00027" HREF="msg00027.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging</A></strong>,
JC Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</a>, Mon 05 Jan 1998, 18:10 GMT
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JC Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</a>, Mon 05 Jan 1998, 22:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00107" HREF="msg00107.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging</A></strong>,
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JC Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</a>, Sat 10 Jan 1998, 04:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00025" HREF="msg00025.html">[MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Brandon Cline <a href="mailto:brandon#sedona,net">brandon#sedona,net</a>, Mon 05 Jan 1998, 09:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00061" HREF="msg00061.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 20:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00130" HREF="msg00130.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
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