[plug] Return receipts and Quake, etc

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Mon Mar 22 08:24:14 WST 1999


Bret Busby wrote:
> Why do you people need things like quake, and war games?

To show off their accelerated 3D cards.

> It appears that PLUG provides its own, in-house email wars...   ...

Before the Internet, there was FIDOnet, AKA Fight-O-Net.

> Some few of us expect everyone else to change their worlds, for our
> convenience.

Heck, it's basic human nature to make rules and restrictions for _other_
people. Very few say "lock me up, please, because I can't stop myself
from (insert favourite antisocial behaviour here)." Worse still, the
police usually say "no!"

-- 
A good pun is its own reword.


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