Re: Hmm. This is getting obnoxious.


Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:04:07 GMT

Gerry Kevin Wilson (whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: Is it just me, or are these little advertisements growing more irritating
: daily? Not to mention that they seem to outnumber the legitimate posts
: here on rai-f. Maybe we should take the word 'fiction' out of the
: newsgroup name. It seems to draw adverts for the most bizarre magazines
: like old meat draws maggots. Ah well.

I think it's happening everywhere, but is especially noticable in
low-volume groups(or high content :> ).

: ObText Adventures: Does anyone know the Copyright status of Edgar Rice
: Burroughs' Barsoom works? I've been considering a text adventure set there.

Aren't some of these available in the gutenberg project? I would assume
anything that is being distributed for free(Twain's works, etc) would be
fair game for IF authors.

Brian

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