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From: Marc Bowden <ryumo@merit.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:13:23 -0400
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--On Tuesday, October 3, 2000 7:42 AM +1300 Richard Tew
<richard.tew@wiredgroup.com> wrote:
>> From: Marc Bowden [mailto:ryumo@merit.edu]
>> This young gent was quite upset, because the help command lied
>> to him. "Your mud's broken," he tells me over and over. "I'm
>> supposed to have this command and I don't. It's not fair."
>>
>> Our 'help' system logs all requests that don't turn up an
>> answer. A check made me begin banging my head against a wall.
>> He had, you see, been typing variants of "help <topicname>" for
>> five minutes or so, and
>> was angry, because the 'topicname' command didn't work.
>
> Is it worth putting in a help document for the topicname topic? :)
>
We have one, because of this incident. =) Thus, the logging. That's
how we get most of the more far-out helps, like the help doc for
bigamy. I swear, people demand help on the most mind-boggling things.
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