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6344: [MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 16:18:28 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 4 May 1998 01:43:01 -5 
Jon A Lambert<jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Sooner rather than later, some company will put up a pay server that
> will be essentially similar to a virtual bordello.  

I question whether services like:

  <URL:http://www.ifriend.net>

Haven't done this already.

<<Odd really.  I bet that someone would do a porn service based on
cheap digital cameras 3 years ago.  Seems I was slightly off -- or
could have got in early and made a boatload instead>>

> It will share
> many characteristics in common with muds, the perpetrators will make
> lots of money, and some of us will be posting on better ways to
> design and implement realistic NPC orgasms.  ;)

IFriend offers an interesting middle ground: anonymous reality.  It
doesn't need simulation, merely detachment.  Then again a quick poke
around doesn't reveal anyone I happen to know there -- which would be
quite, err, interesting.

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