From: huffman@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Please support the request on alt.config for an alt.flame.bc3k newsgroup.
Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt.games.bc3000ad
In article <Gye32.156$tE4.953@news.get2net.dk>,
"Stig Nørgaard Jepsen" <stignj@get2net.dk> wrote:
> What is this flamewar all about?
Derekology 1: Who or what is a Derek Smart?
This is an introductory correspondence course given by the renowned accredited university. There are no texts required for this course. There are no prerequisites for this course. It is only required that you have internet access to complete this course. The renowned accredited university has evidence that you do indeed have internet access. This course is not worth any college credits and can only be taken pass/fail.
There is a modest tuition of only $69.83 in Canadian dollars. If you read any further then you will be held personally responsible for contacting the renowned accredited university and paying the tuition. The renowned accredited university considers their name very personal, so it can't be mentioned in public. The address can't be mentioned either because that would make it too easy to find out the name. This means it is very likely that a few of you students that are indebted to the renowned accredited university may not be able to send in your tuition. This is a sad situation for both you and the university. It is currently being analyzed as to what can be done to solve this little dilemma.
Once you have successfully completed this course you should have an idea as to what the answer is to the question poised by the name of this class "Who or what is a Derek Smart?" This course is being offered to just familiarize the student with the flame war which delights and infuriates the games newsgroups. The goal of this class is to help you, the student, be in the delighted category rather than the infuriated category.
Derek Smart - Author of a computer game Battlecruiser 3000ad (BC3K), is the center of the flame war.
Flame war - good vs. bad, us vs. them, evil vs. me, insults vs. insults, dark vs. bright, fraud vs. truth, hypocrisy vs. laughter, laughing stock vs. laughers, people without lives vs. people with even less life, loser vs. accomplishing nothing
Read the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at
BC3Kfaq.txt
Read the history of the flame war at
AHistoryOfFlameWarFollies.html
Read Mr. Smart's version of history and his defense to PhD fraud at
DereksAnthology.txt
Read the presentation of Mr. Smart's PhD Fraud at
http://follies.werewolves.org/PhDFraud
Optional for those of you with Internet Explorer 4.0 and above take the test
at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chamber/9632
If you would like more information, you can get to it at
http://home.san.rr.com/follies
Hopefully you are now sufficiently equipped to enjoy the flame war. If you decide that you would like to be an - active participant in the flame war it is highly recommended that you first take the Derekology 101 course at Humor I believe it is more fun to be a detractor than a supporter, however, it seems the game is getting low on supporters lately. The game is in dire need of another supporter or two.
Bill Huffman, PhD in Derekology, from (Sorry it's too personal and can't be said where. However, I do admit that it is a degree mill but it's a special degree mill that can't be named because then someone might figure out that it may not be a real school.)