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From: eoshaugh@nmsu.edu (Erik Oshaughnessy)
Subject: [mud] Re: Here's an idea.
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 07:46:18 GMT
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Archive-name: internet/inetd/sorry/1991-05-08
Archive: calvin.nmsu.edu:/pub/mud/misc/sorry.tar.Z [128.123.35.150]
Original-posting-by: eoshaugh@nmsu.edu (Erik Oshaughnessy)
Original-subject: Re: Here's an idea.
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


from akomonc@engws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Andrew R Komonchak):

>    It came to my attention the other night while trying to login to a mud
>that I frequent that I had been hearing a lot of comments lately to the
>effect of "Where is/What happened to/What's the status of Tiny/LP/MU*?"
>    So I thought that it would be cool if there was something that you could
>run in place of the MU* that would return a message when someone tried to
>connect to the socket. This could be used to direct people to a new address
>or let people know that MU*s aren't run on this machine during finals week,
>netc. That way when people try to connect and get nothing they know that
>either a node between them and the MU* is down or that the machine is down.
>    Now I know that this is possible because I have seen it once or twice
>before. What I am suggesting is that someone who has a program like this put
>it on one of the ftp sites...

[stuff deleted]


Way back when I ran a lpmud, I thought exactly the same thing.
Included in the version of lpmud we were running, was a port listener
for exactly the purpose mentioned above.  I hacked it alittle so that
it could be somewhat more dynamic than it was ( you had to recompile
to change the message that it told people. )

I will put it up for anonymous FTP on calvin.nmsu.edu ( 128.123.35.150 )
in pub/mud/misc/sorry.tar.Z for those of you interested.  Expect it there
in a day or two, I need to include a README for the little beastie.

Death of Calvin fame /Azel of Maui fame/Erik O'Shaughnessy of NMSU fame.


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