[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

On 22 Sep 98, J C Lawrence wrote:
> 
>   In a telephone call today, Raph raised the question of the purpose
> of the list: educational or research?  Translation: Is the purpose
> of the list to bring the rest of the field up to the current state
> of the art, or is it to advance the state of the art?  The two are
> of course related, but they are also different.  

I've always used the list as a sounding board for ideas, both my own 
and in response to others, and as a useful resource for odd bits of 
anecdotal mud admin experiences and perhaps hard to come by lore.

As for lists true purpose, wasn't it something to do with 
a Diaspora of ideas? ;)
 
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