From: "Brian Paulsen" <brian at thePaulsens.com> > Why would messaging through sockets be cheating? Surely, we don't consider > INL teams sitting all in one room to be cheating, do we? Why should they be > allowed to communicate outside the normal messaging system, but bots can't? Sophisticated methods of communicating, such as beeplite, are considered cheating/borgish. And what he's suggesting goes way beyond beeplite. If I built any special socket code into my team's clients, it would not be INL/WNL legal. It would be blatant cheating. There is no way humans can do what he describes. Even sitting right next to someone doesn't come close. Dan Damouth