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<LI><em>From</em>: "Caliban Tiresias Darklock" <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:10:10 -0800</LI>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Bowden <ryumo#merit,edu>
To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 6:53 AM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves
> but running any codebase at
>all responsibly makes us brothers in arms of a sort.
See, that's my whole point. It's that additional word "responsibly" that
makes us brothers in arms. I could give a damn whether you do or have or
might run a MUD. Running a MUD means nothing. What MUD you run means
nothing. What matters to me is whether you're a reasonably intelligent and
responsible person.
If someone from this list were to show up on my MUD, my reaction and
response would be based a lot more on who they were and what they had said
than it would be on the fact that they just happen to run a MUD. Long ago, I
used to extend a level of courtesy to other SysOps on my BBS. Do you run a
BBS? You do! Which one? What's the number? Here, you're a fellow SysOp, you
may have unlimited download privileges and you are automatically approved to
post in the moderated SysOps conference.
Then I started to catch more and more people lying, so I started to verify
the board by calling it before granting guest SysOp privileges. And I
started to see that even the people who WEREN'T lying were running
short-term boards that seemed to be up only for the purpose of getting guest
SysOp bennies on other boards. So I had to make a decision. Was I going to
evaluate every SysOp who showed up and give him a thumbs up or thumbs down?
Nope. I discontinued guest SysOp privileges.
And the overall average quality of MUD imms is certainly a good deal lower
today than the quality of BBS SysOps was in 1990.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00380" HREF="msg00380.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 11 Feb 1999, 22:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00384" HREF="msg00384.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00382" HREF="msg00382.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 11 Feb 1999, 23:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00383" HREF="msg00383.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
diablo <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 00:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 18:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00393" HREF="msg00393.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Apocalypse <a href="mailto:apocalypse#pipeline,com">apocalypse#pipeline,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 21:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00386" HREF="msg00386.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Kristen Koster <a href="mailto:koster#eden,com">koster#eden,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 19:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00387" HREF="msg00387.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
diablo <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 19:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00389" HREF="msg00389.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
Brandon A Downey <a href="mailto:badowney#sprynet,com">badowney#sprynet,com</a>, Fri 12 Feb 1999, 20:46 GMT
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