Version 0.9 of Melville incorporates helpful feedback from Abigail
(real name not known), Erwin Harte, K. Ling Lo, Par Winzell, and
Felix Croes. I thank them, and they are not responsible for 
remaining errors.

Original credits:

All of the code in the Melville mudlib was written by Stephen Schmidt
(Mobydick) with the exception of some code in the auto object, driver
object, and user object which was written by Felix Croes (Dworkin)
and made available as part of the DGD 1.0.a6 release.

However, the ideas and concepts that lie behind that code have a much
longer history. My first thanks go of course to Dworkin, without whom
this mudlib would have been impossible for the obvious reason of having
no driver on which to run. His patient explanations of the details of
DGD and its mudlib interface cleared up many questions and much confusion.
I also received much DGD advice from Tony Brannigan (Grendel) and Robert
Django (Django) which is greatly appreciated and hereby acknowledged.

Most of what I know about mudlib design is due to Adam Beeman (Buddha)
my mentor and colleague at TMI-2. He is certainly the other person
without whom this mudlib could not have been written. In working with
him for a year and more at TMI-2 on the development of that mudlib, I
learned the ins and outs of mudlibs and was taught the basic problems
of design and approaches to their solution. His ideas permeate the
Melville mudlib, and if there is anything you find good or interesting
about it, Buddha probably had a hand in it. To him, then, is my largest
debt and thanks.

My colleagues at TMI-2 have also helped me greatly in developing this
mudlib through their influence on my design ideas and the example of
their own code. While they are too numerous to mention all of them,
I wish to mention a few by name who made particular contributions.
Robert Fuller (Archimedes) explained the principles of object oriented
design to me and their advantages and disadvantages. The people who
coded the original TMI mudlib did much, by example, to illustrate the
design of the core of a mudlib. Buddha is naturally foremost among
these, but John Garnett (Truilkan) and James Waldrop (Sulam) also
merit mention in this category. Reimer Behrends (Ellery) has said
much on the subject of security which has influenced me greatly in
the design of this lib: while I have not adopted all of his ideas,
his impact is still large in this part of the mudlib. Glenn
Ferguson (Watcher), my other colleague at TMI-2, spent long hours
discussing bodies with me, and in the course of that had tremendous
influence on my ideas about bodies, switching, command processing,
and security. His influence is probably greater that anyone else's
except for Buddha's.

In the course of explaining and discussing the TMI-2 mudlib and ways
to improve it, many others have influenced my ideas by their opinions.
John Viega (Rust) has provided many ideas and much discussion on
daemonization and security. G.D. Hack (Inspiral) has contributed
input on command processing, overall mudlib design, and efficiency/
complexity/length considerations. Grendel, Leigh Caldwell (Blue),
Rick Irvine (Alexus), Kenneth Lee (Guile), and Douglas Reay (Pallando)
have all provided good ideas and served as sounding boards (and
occasionally filters) for my own.

Greg Stein (Deathblade) helped test the 0.7 release and found several
bugs with it, which are fixed in this version.

Everyone who has been connected with TMI-2, and has either offered
code to be used in it, comments and criticisms upon it, or suggestions
for improving it, has had some part in the creation of this mudlib.
My thanks to them, whether named above or not, for all that they've
done to make this mudlib possible.

And my last and deepest thanks to my wife Alexandra (no mud name) who
tolerated my long departures into virtual reality and occasionally
yanked me back out into the Real World when I needed it. To her, all
my love.