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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Multi-User Domains
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.113235.21941@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:32:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.182009.26836@newcastle.ac.uk>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1991Jun5.182009.26836@newcastle.ac.uk> A.G.Poole@newcastle.ac.uk (Ford (Alex Poole)) writes:
>What are other Uni's attutudes towards Multi-User Domains (MUDs)?

I take it you mean Multi-User Dungeons etc.

>I've been told (*8-) that there is one (or 3?) here, but they are all being
>wiped for good in the next week or so, and the ports we can currently access to
>allow them to run will be locked. Is this the same for other Uni's?

Probably.  The admins I know from universities tend to get quite annoyed
at people using their resources (even at night).  Resources of course
doesnt just include cpu time, but includes bandwidth into the machine,
esp.  if you only have a limited number of lines into the machine.

>(PS... those people who program such things... not me of course... are trying
>to find a way of stopping it, so if anyone has had the threat of removal, and
>has overcome it somehow, please tell us how!!!)

This is dead easy.  You get a large baseball bat and go to the sysadmins
office and ask nicely and sweetly if they mind you running a mud on
their machine, casually smashing their personal machine to bits in the
process.  Actually, this tends to work for most people.  :-)

Dylan.
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