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From: "Daniel Bendiksen" <spamreceiver@smalltowncomputers.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:20:34 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
> From: shren
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Daniel Bendiksen wrote:
>> Another thing that turns me off about mud email is how shockingly
>> primitive it is! It's almost like someone created a crude line
>> entry method and thought "operational. I'll make it better
>> later", but then never got back to it.
> Sounds like there's room for a common document editor for smaller
> muds to use. Have an editor/small server package where the player
> can write and name documents. When the user logs on to a mud, the
> mud calls the player's ip with the port of the document system,
> and then whenever he needs to input text/email/messages/whatever
> he has the option of using text from the document system.
Maybe a pretty good idea, but you will encounter a real problem with
it... The server attempting to connect to the client will bounce
off both NAT and most firewalls, and thusly will fail for some
(maybe many) users.
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