[werewolf] Re: Password abuse in game 229

["bugmenot@gawab.com" <bugmenot@gawab.com>]

I'm sorry if this was considered uncool. :-) Hindsight tells me
that it wasn't the best choice I've ever made, and I don't think
I've been here long enough to know that this has happened before
and not been used!

As I said, I am completely sorry about this.

flig@aol.com writes:

> Ok, we've joked about it before, but this time it was actually used.  
> Uncool.
> 
> Sometimes, people respond to an announcement here about a game being 
> formed.  The problem is that when you reply to a message on the 
> werewolf-users list, and are not paying attention, the return address is 
> the original sender.  It's caught many of us before (myself at least 3 
> times)....to the point where a few messages ended with "...and dont' 
> forget to send me your password."  Nobody ever actually used the password 
> -- often when people sent me theirs, I responded with, "you missed, and 
> you probably want to change your password."  (and the reply to that was 
> usually "Dammit!")
> 
> So.....if we wanna talk about Ethics in Werewolf, I suppose we're going to 
> have to cover password abuse now?
> 
> I don't think there's really a good fix for this problem, save for sender 
> vigilance.  And playing nice.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> bugmenot writes:
> Hi guys,
> 
> as for my vote I'm going with the bandwagon. And as for the
> somebody-got-rocornel's-password thing, I have a little
> revelation to tell you. :-)
> 
> Rocornel once sent ME the message when he was trying to sign up
> for werewolf game 227. I don't know why he did this, but I
> received the following message a while back:
> 
> From:  "The One Ring"
> <theres.only.one.ring.to.rule.them.all@gmail.com>
> 
> To:  "bugmenot@gawab.com" <bugmenot@gawab.com>
> 
> Date:  30 Mar 2006, 01:03:29 AM
> Subject:  werewolf join 227 rocornel [password] sokoban
> 
> I didn't think it was the real password, so just to see what
> happened I tried voting for the bandwagon with that username and
> password, to end the day. And we got lucky on it: we got a wolf
> with that vote!
> 
> Of course, maybe there's a reason why rocornel doesn't like this
> especially: maybe he's a wolf?
> 
> I'm sorry for any havoc this has caused and one of the main
> reasons why I did this was to let you know that your password
> accidentally got out and you might want to change it. Please do
> not hold any malice against me for it because I am a villager
> and if you lynch me you'll be doing yourselves a disservice.
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