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- From: insanity@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.mud
- Subject: Judy and covert
- Followup-To: alt.mud
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:18:59 EDT
- Organization: Pembroke State University
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171859.1@pembvax1.pembroke.edu>
- References: <1992Nov4.125949.28246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <96138@netnews.upenn.edu> <ANIPA.92Nov9170220@kaarne.cs.tut.fi>
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- Summary: I Was wondering what happened to covert it came back but now it is gone
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- In article <ANIPA.92Nov9170220@kaarne.cs.tut.fi>, anipa@cs.tut.fi (Niilo Neuvo) writes:
- > lwl@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Lydia Leong) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov4.125949.28246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter) writes:
- >> >Has anyone ever successfully got a MU* running that could receive and send
- >> >email as well? I have been told this evening that it is very difficult
- >> >but that several groups of people have attempted it. (This could be a FAQ.)
- >
- >> I'm not sure if it would be _difficult_, but it's _stupid_. Why the heck
- >> would you want to hack the capability to send email into your server?
- >
- > BatMUD (a modified lpmud) can send email. Not that it is used at all,
- > we really didn't feel that it was needed. Also being a lpmud makes the
- > addition to the game rather simple.
- >
- >> 1. Not all your players are going to want their email addresses known, so
- >> you can't send email to people whose addresses you don't already know.
- >> Therefore, you haven't gained the capability to communicate with people
- >> that you wouldn't otherwise be able to reach via email.
- >
- > We limited it so that the wizards were the only people that could
- > receive their mail as email. This limits the number of people from
- > about 8000 to 150.
- >
- >> 2. MU* mail is perfectly adequate for almost any MU* purpose. When it's not,
- >> you'll probably want to use a real editor to write it anyway, and thus
- >> won't do it from within the MU*.
- >
- > Some people have clients that are just as good editors as anything
- > else (I'm using an emacs based client).
- >
- >> 3. You've just created a _perfect_ way for people to anonymously send nasty
- >> email messages to people. Congratulations.
- >
- > telnet localhost smtp
- >
- > btw. You can also do mudwho, news, finger and a load of other things on Bat :)
- >
- > ++Anipa
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