From: t60bss9@mp.cs.niu.edu (Bijoy Sagar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: MUD Conference
Date: 24 Jan 1993 18:02:00 -0600
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anon guy at penet.fi writes:

>			MUD CONFERENCE REPORT

>The MUD conference was held in room 202 of the inn in the After Five bulletin
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>board on Sunday January 10, 9:00 PM CST.
 ^^^^^
 The venue was a MUCK ( a version of Multi-user dungeon or MUD written
in MUF! It was not a bulletin board. Hey guys, we are beyond the PC days:-)

>The participants were: Coretta (Deepak Bose, UMN), Vampire (Shubu, U Wisc.) 
>Nowhere_man (Partha,Rutgers), NImmala (???, Emory), debchat (Chatterjee, 
>UKansas), bala (balaji kannan, UA), Samit (Banerjee, USC), gandhiji (Fafat, 
           ^^^^
>USC), Nobody (Sundara Pandiam, of SCT fame), edcrick (UMN) [or so they claimed]

Balaji Kannan came as bkannan not as bala. Ruchir Godura was present in a
"secretive" way:-) And not to claim any lime light, your truly, who organized
the conference was present throughout as excuse_me!

>The  conference began in a very uncharacteristically Indian fashion of most
>of the participants arriving at 9:00 or very soon thereafter.  At that point

	At this point, the great Photphot was killed and banished from the site
for exhibiting excessive libido on an unsuspecting female of the species.

>Vampire continuously pleaded for decorum at this conference, but Mr.
^^^^^^
Now, this was ME before I gave that character to Shubu.

>gestures were largely ignored. In the din that ensued even the routine
                                                               ^^^^^^^
>introductions could not be completed which was just as well perhaps since
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>the pressures of an identity crisis never bothered the partcipants.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That was actually fortunate! Identity crisis indeed! At this point, I
wish to share a secretive wink and smile with Dr. Banerjee :-) And
I was so unsure of my identity that it took me 6 different characters
at various times to adequately represent myself.

>The conference was interrupted many times by the obtuse pablum of an unwelcome
>participant Nimmala (actual identity unknown),who was boorish and obnoxious 
>every time he said something. Efforts to silence him by threats and acts of 
>violence by Vampire and edcrick were fruitless.  Some participants believed 

Nimmala whoever he was killed and banished from the scene at least 3 times
! Even though I locked the door after killing him each time, St.Samit
was benevolent enough to readmit him every time he came back pleading to be readmitted.

>turncoat to boot. In private communication with this author, he even
>insisted that Gandhiji was either Chacko or Mustafa, cleverly disguised. 

 Now, now! All of us who were present would gladly certify that the cranial
capacity exhibited by Gandhiji was beyond the wildest imagination of what
is possible from Mustaffa Abrahim. Not to be irrevevent to our neighbours,
but Mr. Ibrahim's cerebrations urge me to suspect that his predecessors
were locked out in a limbo somewhere in the middle of the evolutionary ladder.
And George Chacko is not to known to play such rustic characters as Gandhiji
, Ram Lak^Han notwithstanding. I would have expected him to take a name like
"the_last_viceroy" or some such nostalgic linguistc relic from the times of Raj.

>spectacle continued until Nimmala withdrew and remained silent for the 
>rest of the meeting. 

	The reasons of which is known only to two people who may or
may not read this posting:-)

>Despite requests for him to explicitly state his data and future experiments,
>debchat refused and stalked out of the conference in a huff.  He apparrently
>took umbrage at the fact that all of the participants did not fanatically
>support his ideas.  Great minds have always suffered the indignity of a lack

	It is also reported that debchat is planning to append this matter
as an evidence to the Islam conspiracy theory that he is in the process
of expounding. How much of this behavior was influenced by the frequent
walk-outs in West Bengal Assembly is not realistically estimated.

	Also, I take this opportunity to remind my fellow-SCIans that the
next MUD conference will be held at uoregon.edu somewhere around the spring
break, sans the chaos created by Nimmalas and Gandhijis and Deepaks. 
It is going to be better controlled and properly organized. If you are
interested, you send me a mail!

Bijoy Sagar











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