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From: JC Lawrence <claw@under.Eng.Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 20:30:17 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
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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