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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)

Date: 10 Mar 88 09:07:43 GMT

I thought that I would follow up here for those following the "Inigo
goes to Hell" flames.

This morning, I received a call from Bob Goodenough. He was distressed
about "Inigo goes to Hell". I think that he has quite a right to be mad,
as I am sure Amanda was. He just wanted a copy of the stack, so that he
might be able to figure out who did it. This whole thing reminds me of
an old Apple ][ occurance:

Sierra On-Line produced a game called "Sammy Lightfoot." A cute little
guy works at the circus, and this provides the means for a cute game.
Well, some of the good ole boys thought it would be cute to write a BASIC
program called, "KILL SAMMY." Kill Sammy allowed you to choose one
of many disgusting ways of executing Sammy Lightfoot. One of them was
even by Chainsaw, accompanied by sound effects and spraying blood. This
is a little too gruesome. Apparently, the Williams' were not happy.

"Inigo goes to Hell" is the same sort of thing. It is a tasteless
execution of poking-fun at something that doesn't really deserve
to be made fun of. What makes it worse, is that somebody spent some
time drawing "Hell." The fact that the stack has some good art in it
makes it much harder to ignore. My experience leads me to believe that
"Inigo goes to Hell" will receive a medium to good distribution throughout
the country, mostly via BBSs.

To whomever wrote that stack:

I you had ever met Amanda before you wrote that stack, you would not
have done it. I had the good fortune of being present at The Boston
Computer Society's semi-annual Shareware/Public Domain Awards, at which
Amanda received a cash prize, and a plaque for "Inigo Gets Out." Amanda
is a person whom one cannot conceive of hurting. As far as I could
tell, there isn't one bad bone in her body. She is probably pretty
hurt by what you have done, and you should be ashamed. What you have
done is created a stack that ranks worse than "Smut Stack?!?" I find
it excrutiatingly hard to believe that anybody would do this. So
one or two people out there will get a laugh from what you did, but
I for one did not think it funny. Not only is it a personal strike
against Amanda, but also it could ruin some things that she has in the
works, as Bob told me. If you choose not to stand behind what you do,
then you are no better than the people who have written the recent
virus programs. While it may seem funny, it hurts more than it is
worth.

To conclude, I'll just say that I am sorry that the Goodenoughs even
heard about "Inigo goes to Hell," as it is clearly something which
they did not deserve.



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