On Sunday, January 29, 1995 at 5:33:02 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
> > > The Net? Sounds like cheating to me.
> >
> > In what way? Team solving is certainly not cheating, and I use every
> > reference at my disposal to solve. The first time I was shocked to
> > find that many solvers had made calls to assorted experts, etc., but
> > that is a part of the game.
> Yes it is; I shouldn't have said "cheating", which would imply a
> violation of contest rules. What really concerns me is violation of
> netiquette. In past Games contests, we have seen things like:
> From: x...@abc.def.ghi.edu (Xavier Y. Ziggurat)
> Newsgroups: sci.math
> Subject: dodecahedron
> Lines: 1
> How many vertices does a dodecahedron have? Thanks.
> From: x...@abc.def.ghi.edu (Xavier Y. Ziggurat)
> Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
> Subject: Jimmy Stewart
> Lines: 1
> What was the year of Jimmy Stewart's first feature film? Thanks.
> From: x...@abc.def.ghi.edu (Xavier Y. Ziggurat)
> Newsgroups: sci.astro,alt.science.planetary
> Subject: Saturn's moons
> Lines: 1
> How many moons does Saturn have? Thanks.
> I'd like to think that solving a Calculatrivia should require a bit more
> work than identifying 40 newsgroups to post to, and that was why my first
> reaction was to call this sort of thing cheating. With messages of the
> sort illustrated above -- and they truly are representation of some that
> we've seen -- I think it's reasonable to call them abuse of Usenet, since
> they conceal the poster's intent to profit monetarily by the answer.
> If people are honest about what they're doing, that's different. And if
> the intent was not to refer to Usenet postings, *that's* different.
> May I suggest that further discussion migrate (with sufficient context)
> to rec.puzzles?
> ObCrossword:
> Unwieldy prize using electric power (7)
> 
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Yea fuck that guy man.