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16443: Re: [MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

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From: Vincent Archer <archer@nevrax.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:43:06 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
According to Dan Shiovitz:

> A couple people have mentioned this, but nobody has explained why it
> happened.  Anybody know?  I can think of two possible hypotheses:
> one is that people told a few friends who told a few more and so on
> (ie, not purposely intending to spread the data), and the other that
> people purposely set out to work out and explain how all the spells
> work.  These are fairly different situations and would need to be
> dealt with differently by the admins.

The second solution. There are some people that deliberately stated
flat out that they didn't believe in secrecy and all that, and set out
first to diffuse recipes they found out, and then started to reverse
engineer what the "sequences" of tapers were (i.e. how you deduce the
tapers in higher level spells from the lower level ones).

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Vincent Archer                                         Email: archer@nevrax.com

Nevrax France.                              Off on the yellow brick road we go!
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