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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:59:33 -5
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 22 Sep 98, J C Lawrence wrote:
>
> In a telephone call today, Raph raised the question of the purpose
> of the list: educational or research? Translation: Is the purpose
> of the list to bring the rest of the field up to the current state
> of the art, or is it to advance the state of the art? The two are
> of course related, but they are also different.
I've always used the list as a sounding board for ideas, both my own
and in response to others, and as a useful resource for odd bits of
anecdotal mud admin experiences and perhaps hard to come by lore.
As for lists true purpose, wasn't it something to do with
a Diaspora of ideas? ;)
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