[MUD-Dev] Re: Ubiquity Scope & Requirements
Vadim Tkachenko
vt at freehold.crocodile.org
Mon Jul 6 21:50:45 CEST 1998
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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Vadim Tkachenko <vt at freehold.crocodile.org>
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