HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: glm@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Glendon Lloyd Morris)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re : MUD Survey
Keywords: MUME
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:53:31 GMT
Organization: Swinburne Institute of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria


Whilst that little informal MUD Survey seems to be over, I would still
like to post my vote for all to see.

    MUME  -  Multi-Users in Middle Earth  (128.178.77.5 4000)

In my opinion, this is the best Mud around.  The people running this
one have gone to great lengths to adapt the world to the maps layed
out by Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.  Currently the world is
being expanded to try to create the whole of the Tolkien world.

I have played quite a few different muds, but this one seems to be
the one for me.  I know quite a few people from my site who play this
particular mud, and whilst many of us have tried other ones, we all
seem to go back to MUME everytime.  The people there always seems to
be friendly, and the gods are quite helpful.

Admittedly, MUME was the first mud i played, but it is the only one
that seems to be able to hold my interest for more than one session.
I know other people get into the same ways with other muds, but MUME
has a fairly big following, and it is growing all the time.  If you
want to check it out, please give it a try.  The support for new
characters is excellent.

         Have fun,

                       Glen Morris
                       (Terminator)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: mmp50868@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ThanMan)
Subject: Re: What happened to Sejnet.sunet.se ?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:21:24 GMT

khoo@husc3.harvard.edu writes:


>Does anyone know what happened to the DikuMud at Sejnet.sunet.se ?

I believe it was taken down due to a lack of administration during the
summer.

>I was really cool, and I had a level 19 warrior on it.  I went away for the

Hmmm....you were really cool on it?  What was your character name?  I think
I was cool on it too.  I think a lot of people were cool on it.  Did I know
you?  I only went around with cool people.

>summer, and know all I get from sejnet is connection refused.  <sigh>

Connection refused means the mud is not up.  just wait until you here
word of sejnet coming back up before you try again.  I don't know when that
will be.  I liked playing there myself.

>Any information would be greatly appreciated.


I hope this little bit of info helps you out there.  If any of it is wrong
well, someone post a reply to my message.

Krell the Legs Man
@SequentII
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992 02:13:29 EDT
From: Wendell G. Wren <WENDELL@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
 <1992Aug24.163609.14798@nic <1992Aug24.191304.2450@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

Is that why he got away with so much...?  I thought it was just because
he was careful only to be a jerk when there was no one around who could
do anything about him...  or even sign the character in unless this was
the case...   marvelous...  makes a person have second thoughts about
trying out the "new improved" version when they decide to bring it up.

                                       Wendell G. Wren
                                       Wendell@Maine.Maine.Edu
                                       02:16:23 Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: shyatt@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve hyatt)
Subject: ARMAGEDDON MUD
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 19:49:51 GMT


Jhalavar, when will the mud be basck up? And PLEASE read your email
and send me a date on the code!
Ariakas
From: bairds@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Wraith)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:07:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6048
Distribution: usa

gt9398b@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher R. Boggs) writes:

>In article <BtKIoB.KDn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert L. Thomas) writes:
> > Since no one uses rec.games.mud.diku he might as well post it. :)

>   Do I qualify as a NOONE? Gee....I hope so.

>-Balstaff, Lesser Highlord at Armageddon

Armageddon is still in betatesting and therefore doesn't really count, eh?

>-Balstaff, Overseer at Arctic

Arctic is still in betatesting (if it even works ... *chuckle* I have much more
respect for Gothmog's work on Armageddon) and therefore doesn't really count,
eh?

>-Chris, Immortal at Adversary and Apocalypse II

Apocalypse II is a cheesey clone of Adversary's older version, so it's not
surprising you have an immortal there.  Adversary itself hasn't been up too
much of late (probably machine problems).  Even if it were up, we'd try to
pretend you're nobody.

You are loud, obnoxious and occasionally quite stupid (there are people I know
who will probably tell me I'm being too kind).  I didn't read the precursor to
this article, our braindead spooler probably hasn't gotten it yet anyway.  The
point being that I've only ever seen you post one sort of article.  The sort of
article that attempts to dominate fellow netters by spewing gunk about what a
wonderful and awesome person you are.  If you need these kinds of postings it
is rather obvious to me that you need them to reinforce your own insecurities.
Nobody avoids making a fool out of themselves or making mistakes ... the most
we can hope for is to _avoid_ making them publically.
     This response is public because I've watched you do this again and again.
I couldn't count the vast number of times I or another with me has mentioned
that yet another brag posting from Chris has appeared.  Frankly, I want them to
know that I finally decided to be mean enough to just say what I think needed
to be said.
                                           - DeathDealer of Adversary
                                             Aktariel of Silly

| bairds@rigel.cs.pdx.edu | "The bomb lives only as it is falling." from      |
| o--[=====- % @>-^-v---- | _Use of Weapons_ by Iain M. Banks                 |
From: vp@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Pop Life)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Keywords: Epic, Mud, Thenndrax
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:50:50 GMT
Organization: Free Software Fountain (FSF) Cambridge, Mass


In article <4808@daily-planet.concordia.ca> akhgar@cs.concordia.ca writes:
>
>     My sympathies to you, Thenndrax, and as a brief note to those of you
>who dont know Thenndrax, and/or Epic...
>
>                                          Lomion, Son of Twilight
>
>(nothing to do with the ex-Implementor of the mud, Twilight)

I too also knew Thenndrax to be an honest and decent person.  I also
know that Epic has purged their player file at least 4 times that I know
of and lost many people in doing so.  I also know that there have been
many complaints about how the Imps were maintaining Epic, and how some
of the GODS were doing their thing(s).  Not all Imps, not all Gods
were ill-mannered, uncaring and disrespectful, but some were...and
it made it a hellish place to play at times.

I hope they have scorched these immortals and get with the program.
For if so, as I always said, Epic will be super.

-Meliere

Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku,rec.games.mud.admin
From: dvrichar@nyx.cs.du.edu (Duncan Richards)
Subject: Sequent source
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:15:20 GMT


im looking for the sequent diku source. there used to be a copy on ucbvax
at berkeley, but it got moved and then deleted or something. if anyone can
point me towards a ftp site with it i would be most gratefull. btw archie
only had one entry for the now defunct site.

Duncan
From: brumleve@hermes (Danny Brumleve)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:56:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BtKD5K.J0w
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

p_lawren@oz.plymouth.edu (Phil W. Lawrence) writes:

>Well..I guess this is my farewell address to EPIC.  I was banned from
>the mud for actually giving a $hit about what happened there.  A
>certain player there, who goes by the name of DeathAngel, is a friend
>of the creator and an implementor.  Because of this friendship he
>feels he can do anything he wishes, say anything he wishes, be whoever
>he wishes.  He was a constant annoyance to myself and many of the
>other players there.  I repeatedly asked him to control his
>language and did everything in my power to stop him legally..BTW..I
>was a level 22 god who doesn't believe in player killing..but I felt
>this was a good time to exercise the powers i had.  He was being his
>normal obnoxious self for a few hours, useing extremely vulgar
>language to many players, especially some of the women.  He decided to
>summon and kill one player after i had asked that there be no player
>killing while i was running the quest.  I was extremely sick of his
>attitude, as were many others.  I went to him, fireballed him multiple times
>(about 40 times), and purged his corpse.  He then cried to an
>implementor , who happened to live in the apartment right below him.
>The implementor, who didn't really like me in the first place, yelled
>at me for a short period and then nuked my character.  Oh well...I
>feel no remorse for my actions and the results of them.  The only
>reason i am posting this is to let the people involved know my side of
>the story and to let all of you potential Epic newbies know what you
>may encounter if you decide to play there.

*yawn*

     I imagine most of this is total BS (although I'm not involved in
the situation).  When Phil here was on Armageddon (well, he still comes
back occaisionally to shout something snide at me using yet another alias),
he repeatedly begged me to let him have another level.  Each time I
refused, because he hadn't done any work on his zone and I don't like
to put up with that kind of crap anyway.  Around the 20th time he asked
me for a level, he went beserk and started doing shit like "force all quit"
(repeatedly) and loading the one npc he had created a few billion times
into the room where I was standing.  He then preceded to yell insults at
me, after which I promptly zorched him.  Then he took it upon himself
to MAIL BOMB my account with about 20 megabytes of crap, and later 
made up stories rather similar to the one posted here.  As far as
I'm concerned, this is pure crap.

>Thenndrax, Ex-God of EPIC
>(still a god many other places tho)  :)

Not Armageddon.

-Jhalavar-
From: ccjason@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Death Muds?
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:54:49 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis
Originator: ccjason@hamlet.ucdavis.edu


Are there any muds around with no ( or almost no ) rules?

e.g. you can kill other characters with the only reprecutions being that they
might kill you back :)

Vale,
		jase

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From: dude@prodigy.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: the
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:50:23 GMT
Reply-To: h309@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Boss

The prodigal son awaits.....
From: schindler@csa1.lbl.gov (AARON SCHINDLER)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:20:55 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: schindler@csa1.lbl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.196
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   

[deleted: Thendrax's story about how DeathAngel is ruining Epic and how he
lost his immortal on Epic.]

>*yawn*
> 
>     I imagine most of this is total BS (although I'm not involved in
>the situation).  When Phil here was on Armageddon (well, he still comes
>back occaisionally to shout something snide at me using yet another alias),
>he repeatedly begged me to let him have another level.  Each time I
>refused, because he hadn't done any work on his zone and I don't like
>to put up with that kind of crap anyway.  Around the 20th time he asked
>me for a level, he went beserk and started doing shit like "force all quit"
>(repeatedly) and loading the one npc he had created a few billion times
>into the room where I was standing.  He then preceded to yell insults at
>me, after which I promptly zorched him.  Then he took it upon himself
>to MAIL BOMB my account with about 20 megabytes of crap, and later 
>made up stories rather similar to the one posted here.  As far as
>I'm concerned, this is pure crap.
> 
>>Thenndrax, Ex-God of EPIC
>>(still a god many other places tho)  :)
> 
>-Jhalavar-

Jhalavar, I don't understand why you even posted.  As you say, you are not 
involved with Thenndrax's situation, so who are you to comment whether his 
story is bs?  

I wasn't there when Thenndrax got purged, but I believe Thenndrax's story.  
Thenndrax wasn't always such a good immortal because he was a push over for 
helping out mortals.  Sometimes I thought he interfered too much.  But 
he was a nice guy and I would much rather have ten Thenndraxes around than
one harassing DeathAngel.  I don't mind the harassing much cuz I've seen it 
a lot, but the problem is that Deathangel is one of the highest level
characters on Epic and he is a pkiller.  There is just no way to get back
at him.  Although at least he doesn't have to call me a b*tch while he is
killing me.   *sigh*

Mista
From: jhosee@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jeffrey Yang Ho-See)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Eltanin *sigh*
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:05:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Well it's almost been a whole MONTH of life without Eltanin.
I heard some rumors that eltanin is down for good? Anyone know
the current situtation? Wasn't someone supposed to fix the
computer on Sept 1 ?*sigh*

Eagerly awaiting news,
- Jeffrey -
From: jdm57406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason D. Marshall )
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: WHERE THE HELL IS SEQUENT????
Keywords: sequent diku
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:26:24 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Last semester i played a great diku named sequent, and had a not too 
shabby lvl 18ish mage with pretty awesom stats. I've found the new 
address, and was on a whole 3 seconds before it crashed.. that was a week
or so ago and i have been refused access since.. wazzup?
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: brumleve@hermes (Dan Brumleve)
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:28:49 GMT

jwood@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (joel braden wood) writes:

>	But you have questionable character also, jhalavar.  Trying to role-
>play is one thing, but a god killing characters over and over again is 
>slightly overboard.  Calm down, mature (I've heard your only 14.), and realize
>that most people playing on your mud don't like fighting gods.

Heh... It just occured to me that you're probably referring to immortal
switching.  People who do this DO role-play correctly the majority of
the time.  Also, having particular views on a topic such as immortal
switching doesn't exactl qualify me as having "questionable character",
does it?  Armageddon players are about equally divided over it, and
all the immortals are in favor of it, so I'm going to allow it.  If
you don't like it, don't play.  Armageddon is for people who are
interested in role-playing seriously, not waltzing into an area
and murdering the inhabitnats for their equipment.
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: jwood@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (joel braden wood)
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:54:31 GMT

In article <BtKvv0.9z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> brumleve@hermes (Danny Brumleve) writes:
>schindler@csa1.lbl.gov (AARON SCHINDLER) writes:
>
>>[deleted: Thendrax's story about how DeathAngel is ruining Epic and how he
>>lost his immortal on Epic.
>
>>I wasn't there when Thenndrax got purged, but I believe Thenndrax's story.  
>>Thenndrax wasn't always such a good immortal because he was a push over for 
>>helping out mortals.  Sometimes I thought he interfered too much.  But 
>>he was a nice guy and I would much rather have ten Thenndraxes around than
>>one harassing DeathAngel.  I don't mind the harassing much cuz I've seen it 
>>a lot, but the problem is that Deathangel is one of the highest level
>>characters on Epic and he is a pkiller.  There is just no way to get back
>>at him.  Although at least he doesn't have to call me a b*tch while he is
>>killing me.   *sigh*
>
>     I posted because I know some people at Epic, and wanted to protect
>their reputation from being destroyed by this guy, since he has similarily
>tried to destroy mine and I seriously doubt his honesty.  I suppose I spent
>more time venting my anger at him than discussing the situation, but I felt
>it needed to be said.
>
	But you have questionable character also, jhalavar.  Trying to role-
play is one thing, but a god killing characters over and over again is 
slightly overboard.  Calm down, mature (I've heard your only 14.), and realize
that most people playing on your mud don't like fighting gods.
From: WENDELL@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Wendell G. Wren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:16:01 GMT
 <BtKD5K.J0w@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Maine System

>*yawn*
>
>     I imagine most of this is total BS (although I'm not involved in
   I couldn't say who, but *someone* has been a truly obnoxious twerp
   and claiming he didn't care who knew...   he also claimed his "real"
   character was DeathAngel...  whether he claims such because he/she
   does feel safe because he has "protection" or if someone was trying
   to get DeathAngel in a bad spot, I couldn't say...   I'm just a poor
   black child... ooops sorry...  you get the picture.
>the situation).  When Phil here was on Armageddon (well, he still comes
>back occaisionally to shout something snide at me using yet another alias),
>he repeatedly begged me to let him have another level.  Each time I
>refused, because he hadn't done any work on his zone and I don't like
>to put up with that kind of crap anyway.  Around the 20th time he asked
>me for a level, he went beserk and started doing shit like "force all quit"
>(repeatedly) and loading the one npc he had created a few billion times
   this is similar to what this other guy is doing, except no god-like
   abilities involved...  straight abuses of TELL, GOSSIP, SHOUT/YELL
   filling screens of whoever happens to be around, no one selected for
   special abuse that I heard about.
>into the room where I was standing.  He then preceded to yell insults at
>me, after which I promptly zorched him.  Then he took it upon himself
>to MAIL BOMB my account with about 20 megabytes of crap, and later
>made up stories rather similar to the one posted here.  As far as
>I'm concerned, this is pure crap.
   so, no, this *isn't* pure crap...   only problem is, who is doing it?
   the accused?   the accuser?  someone else entirely who's laughing his
   ass off cause the blame is falling everywhere else?
>
>>Thenndrax, Ex-God of EPIC
>>(still a god many other places tho)  :)
>
>Not Armageddon.
>
>-Jhalavar-
   Later folks

                                       Wendell G. Wren
                                       Wendell@Maine.Maine.Edu
                                       01:31:41 Thursday, 27 Aug 1992
whose mud character(s) will not be posted cause I don't want any
special attention  :)
From: donini@masg1.epfl.ch (Pier Donini)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: test
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:23:18 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

just a test, please ignore.
From: pjunold@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Joachim Unold)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: looking for testers for TINTIN 3.0(dikumud client)
Summary: testers wanted for tintin
Keywords: testers - tintin
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:57:06 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

Version 3.0 of TINTIN - The Tickin Kickin Dikumud Client - is about to be
released. But I'd like to have it tested a bit on different configurations
and by different people. So if you wanna help me a bit with this program, then
send me an email. Yeah btw TINTIN is unix-only...

 thanks

   peter unold - email: pjunold@daimi.aau.dk
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 11:06:43 CET
From: Werner J. Schoenfeldinger <8850004@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Viemud has now 30 LEVELS


Well Thats the news of Viemud:

We can offer now 30 player-levels to our players.
And many other new things.

Come and see us:

TELNET billroth.wu-wien.ac.at 4000
TELNET 137.208.91.6 4000


The administration
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
From: rwhelan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ryan A. Whelan)
Subject: JudyMUD
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:45:10 GMT

Hi! I was wondering if it is possible to get a copy of JudyMUD (a
modified DIKU running at fred.indstate.edu 2150)  I would be
interested in either someone mailing me this, OR telling me 
where I may obtain a copy of it.  Thank you.


-- 
Ryan Whelan                               Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
                                                                    
rwhelan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu                                              
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From: gt9398b@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher R. Boggs)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Subject: Re: Banned from EPIC
Keywords: diku mud epic jhalavar banned
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:20:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <27459@life.ai.mit.edu> vp@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Pop Life) writes:
>I will be the first one but not the only one to stick up for Jhalavar,
>who may be 14...but is very mature for his age.  In fact, he is more
>mature than some older mudders.  Let's NOT knock him for his age...
>he can hold his own.
>
>And I might as well add that this is beginning to sound like a bashing
>party..let's try not to go full out bashing each other.
>
>-Meliere

     I agree whole-heartedly. Jhalavar may be only 14, but in the last 7-8
months I have worked with him on Arctic and during the time I have been on
Armageddon, I am repeatedly impressed. He has an enthusiasm and desire for 
code that I have not seen ANYWHERE else. When you mention a bug or problem,
it is fixxed immediately or the next chance he gets. Add to this, a basic
uniqueness in his code, and I consider him the foremost Diku coder around.
His love of the game seems to make him tackle projects most "mature" coders
would run from. He did Online Creation, Linked multiple Dikus, totally redid
the diku combat system, and did more special procedures and commands that I
myself have had time to play with.

     In a "reality" where we judge each other by accomplishments and apparent
attitudes rather than a full view of one's personality, Jhalavar is head and
shoulders above the majority of people I have seen involved with mudding.

     I consider him very much my superior, So what if I am almost 22.

-Chris   aka  Balstaff/Skurge/Kargen/NiteBreed

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