Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!sfwhite
From: sfwhite@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Stephen White)
Newsgroups: alt.mud,news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.games.mud
Message-ID: <13223@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 90 20:59:38 GMT
References: <9510@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <4107@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1457@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: sfwhite@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Stephen White)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1457@husc6.harvard.edu> durrell@husc4.UUCP (Speaker-To-Eris) writes:

} In article <9510@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:

}} This is an Official Call For Discussion for creating the newsgroup
}} rec.games.mud.  MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon, developed at CMU.

}} There currently is an alt.mud, but it suffers from poor distribution.
 
} Bad idea. Let's not get carried away, here. Sure, lots o people play
} TinyMUD and AberMUD, but a whole official group? In the rec heirarchy?

There's another possible consideration here.  MUD games, as you know,
don't generate big packets or even a great number of packets (okay,
maybe when there's a groovy party in the RecRoom, it might get
kinda busy).  But do we really want the people who own all the
sites that the Internet connects knowing that some of the bandwidth
of their expensive connections are being used for (gasp) a game?

It's fine when it's a local thing, like Moria (correct me if I'm
wrong; I haven't played it, myself), but when you connect a long way
on [Aber|Tiny]MUD you're involving a number of sites, routers, etc.
along the way.  I don't know if we should really advertise the fact
that these MUDs are running at all.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid; you all know I've had a rather
embarassing wrist-slapping incident in this area.  Still,
I think we should be a little more cautious before jumping into world-
wide advertising.

My vote:  keep MUD in the alt hierarchy for now.

(Hey, what can I say, I'm an alternative kinda guy.)

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