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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Chris Gray &lt;<A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>&gt;</LI>
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 &gt;The RFC allows a compliant implementation to respond "No, I don't do that."
 &gt;to options it doesn't feel like supporting.  I used this freedom a lot.

Nod. An important one for me was NAWS (Negotiate About Window Size), which
lets the server know how big the window of the client is. I also did
BINARY, SUPGA and ENDOFRECORD because they are pretty trivial. Also the
IAC stuff for escaped things.

 &gt;I don't think a single monolithic server would be flexible enough for
 &gt;what most of us are interested in.   I'd build a mix and match collection
 &gt;of components for things like internal language.  Some successful MUDs
 &gt;don't have internal languages at all, and that's a model we should support
 &gt;too.

So, you're thinking it could have either some hard-coded scenario
stuff, or could have it soft-coded in an internal MUD language? I guess
that's do-able. Haven't most systems that started out without an
in-MUD language eventually added one, just to gain the flexibility?

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Chris Gray     cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00288" HREF="msg00288.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00324" HREF="msg00324.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00264" HREF="msg00264.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
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