From: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Ackanomic Research Digest) To: acka-research-digest Subject: Ackanomic Research Digest V2 #109 Reply-To: acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Sender: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Errors-To: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Precedence: bulk Ackanomic Research Digest Thursday, July 10 1997 Volume 02 : Number 109 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:16:49 -0900 From: Phil Ackley Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2215 (acrobot) > > Um, as someone who sends a lot of public messages (Proposals) >without reading them, I'm going to pray this doesn't pass in this >form. :o) Uh, umm. I didn't think of that. I will retract and resubmit (even though I know this is bound to fail) Mr. Lunatic Fringe #retract proposal 2215 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:35:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Aaron Humphrey Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2215 (acrobot) > > Um, as someone who sends a lot of public messages (Proposals) > >without reading them, I'm going to pray this doesn't pass in this > >form. :o) > Uh, umm. I didn't think of that. I will retract and resubmit (even though > I know this is bound to fail) As the one who is most likely to fall afoul of this rule(which should, IMHO, probably go in the 700's someplace), I find it highly amusing, and it's got my vote. OTOH, ICOCBW. YMMV. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/) Song In My Head--Yaz:Only You Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 21:43:24 -0900 From: Phil Ackley Subject: Acka: Proposal 2216 >Proposal 2216 >No More OMCLs/No Last-Minute Scams >/dev/joe > NO NO NO NO NO NO! Must we destroy everything fun in this game? Isn't theivery fun? Has an OCML ever hurt anyone? Did /dev/joe pinch his finger on the switch? :) Mr. Lunatic Fringe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 01:08:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2216 > >Proposal 2216 > >No More OMCLs/No Last-Minute Scams > >/dev/joe snowgod wrote: > NO NO NO NO NO NO! > > Must we destroy everything fun in this game? The OMCL is only "fun" by a very a twisted definition of fun. > Isn't theivery fun? To quote somebody I heard very recently, "NO NO NO NO NO NO!" > Has an OCML ever hurt anyone? It's come pretty close. If the scam potential of the OMCL had been tested a little more thoroughly than it actually has been, we would have seen either a game crash or all-out war in Acka. I was prepared for a war, from my bunker here inside the Ackanomic Afterlife, if one should start. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 22:57:29 -0900 From: Phil Ackley Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2215 (acrobot) >YMMV. I admit, I don't know my acronyms. YMMV? Mr. Lunatic "ICOCBW" Fringe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:20:16 -0700 From: Hank Turowski Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2215 (acrobot) At 10:57 PM 7/8/97 -0900, you wrote: >>YMMV. > >I admit, I don't know my acronyms. YMMV? Your Mileage May Vary. > >Mr. Lunatic "ICOCBW" Fringe > > Hank 'Still Just Observing' (SJO?) Turowski - ---- Hank Turowski Edmark, an IBM Company C Code hankt@edmark.com Redmond, WA C Code Run turowski@sciences.sdsu.edu (206) 556-3651 Run Code Run... PLEASE! ------------------------------ End of Ackanomic Research Digest V2 #109 ****************************************