Re: Please resolve these two passages...

• Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:31:46 PST
• From:
  hpa@trantor.storm.net (H. Peter Anvin)
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In article <199602161807.MAA04914@eli.wariat.org>,
Robert J. Brown <rj@eli.wariat.org> wrote:
>
>   "perhaps you don't realize that verbs and properties on an object can
>   be owned by a different player than the object itself..."
>
>This is good, otherwise it would be hard to put an independent rider
>on a horse, or fleas on a dog that were not owned by the dog! (Unless,
>of course, the fleas owned the dog instead :)
>

Not true, since the rider and the horse (or dogs and fleas) are
separate objects, this does not apply.  The main use for this
functionality is to restrict ownership inheritance of certain
properties (!c), and to control which verbs should run with wizard
permissions.

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• Re: Please resolve these two passages...
• From: Susan Garfinkel <sgarfink@dept.english.upenn.edu>
• Re: Please resolve these two passages...
• From: "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>

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