Re: [werewolf] Password abuse in game 229

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

Glad to hear that people have some standards...

Seriously, though, I would say that this behavior was
skating really close to grounds for expulsion from the
server.

Your friendly neighborhood ethicist,

Lyman

--- The One Ring
<theres.only.one.ring.to.rule.them.all@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been away from the pc while typing this email,
> so I first missed
> the emails that followed after flig's email. I saw
> them now, but still
> wanted to send this email, just to have a reaction
> that everyone could
> see.
> 
> I'm glad you emailed me personally as well to tell
> me you're sorry,
> but I also still feel bad about what you did, so I
> still want to send
> the email I was writing before...
> 
> 
> v
> v
> v
> 
> 
> Like flig said: Uncool!
> 
> I really detest the way you used my password, not
> only because of the
> influence on the game but for not just telling me
> what I did in error
> instead of just using it in some weird way to tell
> me what I had done.
> And I'm really just flabbergasted that you not only
> did that, but also
> threw my password onto the server for everyone (in
> this game) to
> see...
> 
> Not much more I can say about it...
> 
> 
> On 06/04/06, flig@aol.com <flig@aol.com> wrote:
> > 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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