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From: gt4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ford Prefect)
Newsgroups: alt.mud,news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.games.mud
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Date: 6 Feb 90 10:07:51 GMT
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In article <1990Feb4.191852.22648@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
umcharl3@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mike Charlton) writes:
>Well, if there isn't enough support for a new group (and I agree 600
>probably is too small, if that is the case) then how about someone
>starting a mailing list for those of us who don't get the alt.mud
>group.  I would imagine that if there are so few people, this
>wouldn't involve much overhead (If someone with a kind heart is
>willing to do it...)

600 small?  Generally 100 is considered the threshhold for newsgroup
creation.  600 is bloody large!  I'd hate to see a 600-name mailing
list (poor uunet...)

I'd really like to see the mainstream group.  There's certainly enough
interest (right now TinyHELL is running 1400+ users, I imagine TinyMUD
is similar, and there, last I heard, at least 10 other national-access
MUDs and countless local ones.  The TinyBALL that was run this weekend
drew so many users that it temporarily overwhelmed the gateway to the
host it was running on.  If even a small fraction of this user base is
interested I think there's enough demand for the group.

Also, there are a lot of people out there working on the MUD source,
and it would be nice to have someplace to discuss this sort of thing
too; rec.games.programmer is a little too general for specific
discussions of the implementation of one game. 
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