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28410: Re: [MUD-Dev] Seamlessly Distributed Online Environments

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From: Kim <bookwyrm@solluna.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:58:45 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 2003-09-17 15:41:13 -0400 (Wed), Brent P. Newhall
(me@other-space.com) wrote:
> "Adam M" <ceo@grexengine.com> wrote:
>> Crosbie Fitch <crosbie@cyberspaceengineers.org> wrote:

>> In Napster/Kazaa/etc I get no reward for poisoning other people's
>> files.

> And what reward is there in this p2p "shared world" scenario?

Spam.  Lots of Spam.  Poisoning the system with redirects, pop-ups,
virtual 3D billboards in the world to advertise the same sort of
things I get in spam email.

If you had as many people doing that with all the energy and effort
they use today to try to avoid spam filters... good luck.

Kim

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Kim      bookwyrm@solluna.org                 http://solluna.org/
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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