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) -- Z. Beeblebrox | I live with two people, I like both of them. (alias B. Elmore) | He likes both of me and I like both of him. bee@cs.purdue.edu | They're my alter egos and to them I'm wed, ..!purdue!bee | 'Cause I'm happy I live in a split-level head. -- Nap. XIV
bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne) (02/07/90)
I'd love to see this group. I have enhanced MUD from version 1.5.1 out of CMU to add escape sequences to the messages, sticky exits, gender, and trapdoors. As soon as these have been tested, I will send them back to the authors for possible inclusion. -bruce