Damnit people, the circle list was not meant to be your own personal soapbox! The horse is dead and i couldn't care less who wins this absolutely *pointless* argument. So, pretty please with sugar on top, shut the fuck up about non-coding imps and generic MUDs. There are much better things with which to waste bandwidth. Antioch@Dark Chronicles (dc.iglou.com 4000) On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Joshua Mentzer wrote: > Not in my opinion, but just because you are doing what you should be > doing doesn't mean that others are. I guarantee there are IMPs out there > who don't know anything but how to patch code in, and depend on that for > their code. > People haven't been saying all newbies are bad, they have been saying, > it's bad for newbies to depend on patches, and it could be easy to get > into that kind of behavior, but as a newbie, you are much better off > learning how to do things on your own. > If you see a patch you think you want on your mud, don't hesitate to > grab it, but don't put it in your mud until you understand it completely, > and could code one yourself if you wanted to. > > > -josh > > > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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