Re: anyone remember someone called 'grumps'?

    I had a look at that site.  It's some kind of MUD-MOO stuff.
Sort of like IRC in a way, except you can also connect to stuff
like University Libraries, ect.. They play Dungeons and Dragons,
or some other role-playing games on-line.  If you make or post
ascii for these MUD people, that's what they do with it. I'd
been wondering what these MUD requests were about...

    Anyway, they steal ascii, like mIRC people do.  If you
search around this guy's site, you will find a newsgroup
section (not usenet newsgroups) where --- I guess --- they
run newsletters to participants, ect.. List of people that
can be emailed to, informing them that "Grumps" steals
all his nice pictures. For whatever good it will do....
and I reckon that's none at all, since they probably all
do it and don't care.

    Since it's not really an ascii site, folks ought to
remove it from links, anyway.  And folks ought to know
better than fulfill MUD or IRC requests, if they're
going to get bruised feelings about stolen ascii. That's
what most of those people do with it; claim it for their
own, to "impress" each other.

    I doubt complaining to the host of this site is going
to do any good.  Looks like this fellow is a Proff
at the University that hosts it.  I doubt the Univ. will
do anything about it (if what I presume about this is
correct).      ON THE OTHER HAND ---- perhaps writing
to the hosting university about their staff stealing
intellectual property on the internet, just might cause
him enough embarassment to pull it off.

    But, as we all know, if posting ascie is kind of like
throwing it to the wind. There's no telling where it will
turn up, or what it will look like a day later.

JRO

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