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<LI><em>From</em>: "Jay Carlson" <<A HREF="mailto:nop#mitre,org">nop#mitre,org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:18:16 -0400</LI>
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Adam Wiggins wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jay Carlson wrote:
> > Adam Wiggins writes:
> > > Here's my informal poll from the mud connector. (BTW if your favorite
> > > mud isn't listed on the mud connector, or is out of date, bug the
admin -
> > > especially if YOU are the admin. :) This thing has been a great
> > > resource to
> > > the mud community for a long time.)
> >
> > No. My favorite mud isn't publicized, and the users and the
administrators
> > are pretty happy about that.
>
> Well, okay - I should have said, "if you interested in your mud growing
> at all..."
It's growing.
I think I'm still paranoid from the days when Gopher was king, and JHM was
listed like two clicks from the top of the root gopher server---we
experienced the usual influx-of-newbies disaster. JHM had it pretty easy
compared to LambdaMOO, what with getting mentioned in WiReD every few
issues.
> I completely understand wanting to be discriminating about who is involved
> in your community. But I don't think that low publicity is necessarily
> the way to do it - mud-dev has managed to keep a very cultivated crowd
> despite relatively high publicity (public website, searchable archives,
> et al). It stays "elite" due to the efforts of the administrator.
> If your admin is willing to put in the same effort on your mud,
> you can get the same effect - filter out all the chaffe and being
> left with an influx of fresh faces that have a lot to contribute.
How do we do that?
Jay
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00068" HREF="msg00068.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 28 Jul 1999, 04:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00069" HREF="msg00069.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Wed 28 Jul 1999, 16:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00070" HREF="msg00070.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Wed 28 Jul 1999, 16:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00071" HREF="msg00071.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00076" HREF="msg00076.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Jay Carlson <a href="mailto:nop#mitre,org">nop#mitre,org</a>, Mon 02 Aug 1999, 17:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00077" HREF="msg00077.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00085" HREF="msg00085.html">[MUD-Dev] Mud Census?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00074" HREF="msg00074.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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