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From: Bruce <bruce@puremagic.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:17:19 -0600
References: [1] [2] [3] [4] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence wrote:
> The usual MUD implementation is to have an NNTP server off the side
> and then build a netnews client into the MUD. Quite a few have done
> this to various levels of success. The fact that those newsgroups
> were then (occasionally) exported out just made them all the more
> interesting and valuable for the players as it game them and
> out-of-game and OOB channel for communication that was also
> implicitly game-centric.
Hmmmmmm.
What MUDs did this? I've seen plenty with in-MUD mail systems, some
with SMTP and POP3 daemons built in, or web-interfaces. But, I've
totally missed seeing any system that did NNTP like that.
- Bruce
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