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30186: Re: [MUD-Dev] MMORPG Cancellations: The sky is falling?

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From: Douglas Goodall <dgoodall@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:40:36 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Sean Howard wrote:

> Not true. You will NEVER have a single community with tens of
> thousands of participants. The number of required connections
> between each person would be astonomical. It will break down into
> smaller, more managable communities.

The "rule of 250" does not say that larger communities cannot exist,
only that beyond 250 members, they are no longer self-organizing and
members are no longer likely to know every other member. Whether a
larger organization (like "New York" or "The AARP") is or is not a
"community" depends on your definition.
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