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Hmmm, there are alot of remarks about people's attitude when entering races. Seems some people just won't take it seriously and this is causing others great despair. It has just occurred to me that anyone who has the good fortune to LIVE within the local 619 area code can sit on the network all day with no concern whatsoever for long- distance charges and hence no particular consideration for those paying top dollar to race. They're probably the ones who are the biggest hooligans. Perhaps Papyrus should set up a few nodes in, say, Anchorage for anyone dialing from the Boston area. The level of entrant consideration for other drivers would probably improve immeasurably. I guess I'm kidding - but I wonder... Simon

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>Hmmm, there are alot of remarks about people's attitude when entering >races. Seems some people just won't take it seriously and this is >causing others great despair. It has just occurred to me that anyone >who has the good fortune to LIVE within the local 619 area code can >sit on the network all day with no concern whatsoever for long- >distance charges and hence no particular consideration for those >paying top dollar to race.

Oops! Typo!! I'm in the 619 area code (San Diego), and believe me when I say it ain't cheap. /=================================================\ | John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) | | http://www2.connectnet.com/users/jms/index.html | \=================================================/

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>Hmmm, there are alot of remarks about people's attitude when entering >races. Seems some people just won't take it seriously and this is >causing others great despair. It has just occurred to me that anyone >who has the good fortune to LIVE within the local 619 area code can >sit on the network all day with no concern whatsoever for long- >distance charges and hence no particular consideration for those >paying top dollar to race. They're probably the ones who are the >biggest hooligans. Perhaps Papyrus should set up a few nodes in, say, >Anchorage for anyone dialing from the Boston area. The level of >entrant consideration for other drivers would probably improve >immeasurably. >I guess I'm kidding - but I wonder... >Simon

Actually one of the first things I thought of when I started seeing comments about people paying more or less or nothing for Long Distance to get on the network was to simply split all 0-1 rated drivers according to whether they are calling Long Distance or not. This could be facilitated with area codes fairly easily I believe, and would prevent the 'local yokels' from preventing you from improving your rating in a reasonable length of time. Of course, they could program the network to allow you to be entered into that category optionally (if there was someone who did not want to be restricted from racing local 0-1 rated drivers). Just a thought. Weyr