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Westfront PC is a freely downloadable text adventure game.  Mr. Panks
has every right to post messages about it here.  I took a look at it and
it wasn't my style of game, but I recognize that he has put a tremendous
amount of effort into it, updating and adding to it.  If all authors put
this much time into their IF...

God forbid that comp authors whose games you don't like get this kind of
attack.  Or was it you who drove Ryebread away?

-Jim

Ethyl Yuter wrote:
> daryl@cogentex.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote in message news:<ael0fb0ri6@drn.newsguy.com>...
>
>>wild_dj@mit.edu says...
>>
>>
>>>Paul Allen Panks is not a newcomer. He comes around here for one
>>>purpose and one purpose only: to flak his mediocre work, "Westfront
>>>PC". This irritates many of us.
>>
>>Why? If you're not interested in his posts, don't read them. I don't
>>see anything offensive about them.
>
>
> It is offensive once you realize that searching for "westfront PC" on
> a google groups search yields 10 pages of Panks' advertisement for his
> games, most of which are ignored.  He doesnt understand the message,
> and so it must be brought to him.  Also, most of the advertisements
> proclaim add-ons to a already extremely poor game, filled with bad
> writing, prose and coding.  If this onslaught of nauseating
> advertisements for his poor quality game can be stopped by telling him
> why it is offensive, then I believe it should be done.


