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Peter Huebner wrote:
> In article <VDxHd.2454$Ny6.4231@mencken.net.nih.gov>, none@nowhere.com
> says...
>
>>Yeah, a newb. Only been on usenet for 10 years and never once needed
>>ROT_13 to read a message.
>>
>>CH
>
>
> Everything is relative I guess
I was on usenet when Internet was
> still text based in its entirety (in other words just as the first web
> pages and browsers were invented; a bloody joke to those of us with 2400
> baud modems on long distance real time calls) - whenever in the remote
> past that may have been. In fact UUCP connection was the only realistic
> option then. [am I doddering and drooling in a convincingly senile
> manner?]
>
> Rot_13 and spoiler-space-page-down were very common in those days,
> especially in the adventure games groups but also in the rpg groups -
> most rpg games being much more puzzle oriented in the early days of
> Wizardry and Might and Magic etc ...
>
> I grant you it's become less and less common over the last few years,
> and I can't decide if that's a boon - since I don't like to have to
> reach over to the mouse to use the menus - or a loss since I have read
> spoilers (more ore less inadvertantly) that I'd rather not have.
> However I would not dream of hollering at somebody who is, speaking as
> the traditionalist that I am not, following good usenet manners.
>
> <grin> -Peter
It's all a little humility for me. There's always something new for me
to learn. Every time I get up on my high horse, the horse decides that
"encouraging a less than graceful dismount" is in order.
CH