SkArcher on Sun, 30 May 2004 17:01:42 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Straw Poll on the Government Turnover

On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:57:00 -0400 (EDT), Zarpint <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 


On Sun, 30 May 2004, SkArcher wrote:


Hmmm, on consideration it is apparent that the "Open Source" theory will
suffer the same problems as the Telephone did. Making any specific
time-frame for a single action to be performed by it's nature makes it
vulnerable to, if you will excuse the term, "camping" the event


You mean, as in camping out in line to buy Phantom Menace tickets or
something?


You don't play FPS games do you?



Well, we no longer have automaton scripts, so these players
would have to be glued to their computer screens.


It has been known to happen @_@


Unless you're thinking
they'd use cron or something... We'd better not make the rewards high
enough to be worth that.
But I suggest that if a task can be done by cronning, we do it by cronning, 
and remove it from the list of tasks.


Indeed



Zarpint






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