On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:50:34 -0500 (EST), Ken Arromdee wrote:

A text search is pointless--people woukld just download all the files and grep
them (which is probably what actually happened).

That's a heck of a lot of files to download and search through.
Personally I don't know why someone would want to cheat in something
that had no prize, no reward other than the dubious honor of
recognition by fellow fanfiction enthusiasts. This was done purely for
fun, and I hope no one would take it that seriously.

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics