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From: gp5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Fur - Roy Riggs)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.games.mud
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Date: 2 Feb 90 06:25:45 GMT
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>This is an Official Call For Discussion for creating the newsgroup
>rec.games.mud.  MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon, developed at CMU.

I do think there is a need for a new news group here, but you have
confined it to narrowly.  There should be a news group for discussing
ALL multi-user games (most likely adventure oriented, but not
exclusive.)  Limiting the group to one particular game implementation is
silly.  Perhaps rec.games.multi-user would be a better name.

Also, there is no such thing as MUD, TinyMUD was the game developed at
CMU by James Aspnes and others.  MUD most commonly stands for Multi User
Dimension(s) so as not to limit the genre.

fur - gp5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu