Re: Recommended reading

• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:35 PDT
• From:
  "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>
• CC: jrost10+@pitt.edu, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: <Pine.3.89.9610081722.A26281-0100000@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Michael Kraus on Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:23:59 +0000)

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kraus <belfry@zeta.org.au> writes:

    Michael> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Robert J. Brown wrote:
    >> >>>>> "James" == James R O'Kane <jrost10+@pitt.edu> writes:
    >> 
    James> Has anyone, besides me, ever actually been admited to a
    James> mental hospital for an extended stay?  -james
    >>  Yes, a LOOOOONG time ago (almost 20 years), but I don't *DO*
    >> MUDs!  Never did.  I am interested in setting up a MOO as a
    >> conferencing environment, but not as an RPG or anything like
    >> that.

    Michael> Err...

    Michael>   A MOO *is* a mud...!  just because it isn't necessarily
    Michael> used for the express purpose of gaming does not change
    Michael> that fact.

It was the 'D' in 'MUD' -- the Dungeons part -- that I was disavowing.
Yes, I know that the software is the same, and only the scripting is
different.  I was talking about purpose, not coding.

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