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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:17:05 -0500</LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 4:46 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?
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> On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:20:08 -0400
> Hal Black<hal#moos,ml.org> wrote:
> > Another benefit I find is when someone says something succinctly
> > or puts a label on something, which in turn brings together a lot
> > of loose ideas that I had been thinking about previously into a
> > coherent whole.
>
> I'm sure Koster would appreciate assistance in collecting such
> 'laws' in cogent form.
As good a time as any to mention (now that JCL let it slip) that I am
trying to collect said laws into a nice little package for posting.
Here's a sample, complete with tacky names taken from posters here:
Kesselman's Theorem: A MUD universe is all about psychology. After all,
there IS no physicality. It's all psych and group dynamics.
Social Interaction Postulate: mud social bonds evolve from the fictional
towards real social bonds; if you have good community ties they will be
OOC ties, not IC ties.
Koster's Law (as stated by Mike Sellers, I didn't name it, lest you
think I am blowing my own horn...): The quality of roleplaying in a
given virtual world is inversely proportional to the number of people
playing.
etc etc blah blah. :) Please DO send me other such little nuggets you've
spotted in the list--my objective is very much to provide a nice primer
of basic lessons that we may not all realize we know. Defining our
knowledge of state of the art is the first tsep towards pushing the
boundaries...
-Raph
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<LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01283" HREF="msg01283.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?</A></strong>,
Damion Schubert <a href="mailto:zjiria#texas,net">zjiria#texas,net</a>, Sat 26 Sep 1998, 22:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01290" HREF="msg01290.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?</A></strong>,
Damion Schubert <a href="mailto:zjiria#texas,net">zjiria#texas,net</a>, Sat 26 Sep 1998, 23:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01099" HREF="msg01099.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
S. Patrick Gallaty <a href="mailto:choke#sirius,com">choke#sirius,com</a>, Tue 22 Sep 1998, 22:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01125" HREF="msg01125.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 05:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01166" HREF="msg01166.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 23:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01170" HREF="msg01170.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Thu 24 Sep 1998, 00:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01189" HREF="msg01189.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
Felix A. Croes <a href="mailto:felix#dworkin,nl">felix#dworkin,nl</a>, Thu 24 Sep 1998, 13:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01387" HREF="msg01387.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
Benjamin D. Wiechel <a href="mailto:strycher#toast,net">strycher#toast,net</a>, Wed 30 Sep 1998, 22:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01096" HREF="msg01096.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: who are we?</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 22 Sep 1998, 21:45 GMT
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