[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was: A rant againstVanguardreviews and rants)

[Michael Hartman]

Raph Koster wrote:
> Technologies accrete, they don't replace. Text chat arrived in the 70s,
> and isn't likely to just go away; it may lose some popularity, but it
> will likely remain as a feature in the same way that the command line
> still lurks in all the current OSes.

The fact that many people use their cell phones more for text messaging
than actual talking is certainly good evidence of this fact.