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From: "Caliban Tiresias Darklock" <caliban@darklock.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:20:12 GMT
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:43:02 PST8PDT, Martin Keegan <martin@cam.sri.com>
wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Adam Wiggins wrote:
>
>> I take heat from all quarters. The 'true' role-players I show my mud
>> to say, 'Ew! Feature <X> reminds me of LP!' The diku players say, 'Ew!
>> Feature <Y> looks like something from a MUX!' The LP players say, 'Ew!
>> Feature <Z> seems like a diku thing of some sort!' I tried explaining
>
>Yes - this is exasperating. I banned a whole country from Island when
>someone accused me of lying about what "mudlib" Island was.
I was just looking at this, and it occurred to me that this is just the
sort of thing that we should be encouraging. I mean, if system X has a
feature that works, why reinvent? You might recode it for efficiency and
understanding, but really there's a lot of great talent out there doing
a lot of great stuff, and there's just no good reason to waste all of
it.
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