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7643: [MUD-Dev] Re: Ubiquity Scope & Requirements

Greg Munt wrote:
> 

[skipped a lot]

> IT PROVIDES VARIOUS SERVICES TO ITS USERS
> In order to determine what functionality it is that Ubiquity
> should provide, the Internet facilities that are currently
> available need to be looked at - those that satisfy Socialiser
> goals. The reason for this, is that only a small minority of
> people will use something completely different to that which
> they are used to (this can be clearly seen by the dominance
> of TinyMUD, LPMUD and DIKUMUD throughout the mud world); people
> tend to stick with what they know, even if a newer product is
> much better. These services are as follows:
>                     Email
>                     Newsgroups
>                     Internet-Relayed Chat (IRC)
>                     Information Repositories
>                     Games

Can you please elaborate, are you going to just provide the mail access
to the players like a Hotmail virtual account and just have a dedicated
news server with access restricted to the users, or you're going to
embed those services in the MUD core?

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