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MUD-Dev archives not lost forever

January 30th, 2007

Richard Tew, member of the MUD-Dev2 mailing list, has helpfully posted up an archive of MUD-Dev messages. Alas, it only covers 1996-2000, so it is incomplete, but many of the peak years will be present.

The MUD-Dev archives have always been one of the best resources for online world designers — not just in the discussion, but also just because it seemed that whateverr you wanted to talk about had probably been discussed before. I used to make a habit of re-reading the archives every year, because gems would always pop out at me.

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    1. Phil said on

      Excellent news! I’ll have to go see what stupid things I was saying back then.

    2. David (Tal) said on

      I remember getting involved in mud-dev back in 1994 when I was actively writing for MUDs. Unfortunately I had to go get a real job after college and kind of lost track when things started to go graphical. So this is cool because I get to see some of what I missed :)

    3. Janey said on

      I was thinking about MUD-Dev just the other day. I ran across an archive of some old emails, some of which made me giggle. The subject was “Criminalize Community Voulnteers?” and they were about the counselor program in UO. I said that Customer Service ought to be supplied by the company that made the game, not by volunteers, and practically nobody agreed with me, and pretty much everybody thought I was insane, or just mean. :P

      They were from September of 2000, though, and so were too late to be in the archive. Owell.

      I wonder if Lee Sheldon is still around. If I remember right, he didn’t think I was too crazy.

      - Madrona Tree.

    4. Raph said on

      Lee is at Indiana University. He also recently did that Agatha Christie adventure game, which did quite well. I usually see him a couple of times a year.

    5. tide said on

      Cool news indeed. I figured with Kanga gone, so would the archives. Thanks for this.

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