[MUD-Dev] Re: The great crusade....

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:26:31 -0500 
Koster, Raph<rkoster at origin.ea.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a list of things people feel are Laws, Theorems,
> and Principles that were elaborated on this list? 

One of these days some (overly?) hopefuly undergrad is going to mine
MUD-Dev for these things for his thesis.  Maybe we'll get a list
then.

> I bet a simple digest of just those ideas would make for a very
> interesting, and thought-provoking post.

Agreed, with bells on.

A problem of course for such a digester is that most of the
aphorisms and laws are not stated as such.  They're tossed out
offhandedly and discussed and dealt with in much the same manner.

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  If enough people ask for RFC 1553 digests I'll *think* about
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