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7350: [MUD-Dev] Re: META: who are we?

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:19:31 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:09:28 +0000 
Scatter <scatter@thevortex.com> wrote:

> Similarly things like the standard scenarios you all seem to know
> and love which I haven't quite tracked down yet (it seems very few
> of them are in the FAQ). When people say things like "this is a
> Dragon's Dinner situation" it's completely meaningless unless you
> know what that scenario is. However, I appreciate that whereas I
> recognise the term "race condition", many people will not.

It would be great if someone undertook the task of collecting a list 
of the various scenarios, their names, the reasons for their
existance, their solutions, the weaknesses of their solutions etc...

> I also find the qualifications and experience of some of the
> posters here very humbling, no way I'm going to contradict
> them. I've made a fool of myself in the usenet groups a couple of
> times and have no intention of repeating it here. :)

None of use are God (or at least not as of last I checked).

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