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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K. Mike Bradley
If you server admins really wanted to do something stop your servers for
one day ... Lets say this Friday.
See what Valve does then.
That is a *really* interesting notion.
Given that Valve is effectively in a loose partnership with server
admins, commercial and otherwise, all around the world.
A co-dependence where server admins rely on Valve to provide an
attractive, stable gaming environment, and server admins provide
hardware and bandwidth to make Valve's online products worthwhile. The
alternative of Valve/Sierra/Vivendi establishing a commercial gaming
network is presumably not as economically attractive.
(I wonder how the accountants feel about relying on such informal
external support as part of their business model?)
But anyway - Valve aren't stupid. They are not ignorant of the issues.
One just hopes that their efforts are concentrated on the issues we
percieve as important - and not on producing Ricochet:Source.
JOC
John P O'Connor
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If an infinite number of monkeys were
given an infinite number of microphones,
would we *really* need Britney Spears?
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