bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) (02/01/90)
This is an Official Call For Discussion for creating the newsgroup
rec.games.mud. MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon, developed at CMU.
There are several of these around the country, most notably at
Carnegie Mellon (tinyMUD; telnet daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu 4201), and
at the University of Oklahoma (tinyHELL; telnet uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
6250).
There currently is an alt.mud, but it suffers from poor distribution.
Judging by the large number of people that are connected to the MUDs
at any given time, there should be considerable support for such a
group. (If you don't believe me, try connecting to one of them
sometime.)
B.E.E.
(Finrod on tinyHELL)
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..!purdue!bee | 'Cause I'm happy I live in a split-level head. -- Nap. XIVgp5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Fur - Roy Riggs) (02/02/90)
>This is an Official Call For Discussion for creating the newsgroup >rec.games.mud. MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon, developed at CMU. I do think there is a need for a new news group here, but you have confined it to narrowly. There should be a news group for discussing ALL multi-user games (most likely adventure oriented, but not exclusive.) Limiting the group to one particular game implementation is silly. Perhaps rec.games.multi-user would be a better name. Also, there is no such thing as MUD, TinyMUD was the game developed at CMU by James Aspnes and others. MUD most commonly stands for Multi User Dimension(s) so as not to limit the genre. fur - gp5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu