Re: Someplace to "speak" online?

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

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>Date:         Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:17:12 EST
>From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
>
>> I would prefer a MUD. We could set up a library, a school, a cafe, and some
>> other settings for various styles of conversation. However, I wonder if
>> there are enough of us to populate a MUD? Perhaps we should just start
>> posting here in Lojban and see if something develops. There has been very
>> little traffic here lately.
>
>If enough people express interest, we can establish a list for discussing
>the details of getting a M* up and running. (My experience is limited
>to the hack&slash DikuMUD type, but I understand that MOO is quite widely
>used for this sort of thing.)

There used to be a Lojban room on MediaMOO, ages ago... I remember I
programmed some verbs there to handle cmene; even checked the cmene for
validity and used "la cmen." or "la'o gy. Character Name gy." as
appropriate (if you have a special Lojban name set on your character that
is) when people spoke, etc etc.  Dunno what ever became of it; been a long
time.

Hack&Slash-style DikuMUD or LPMud is probably not the Right Thing for a
Lojban environment, but a MUSH or MOO would work quite well.  Besides, I
tend to prefer those anyway.  I certainly know what it takes to run a MUSH
(I'm one of the admins of the KLI's MUSH that someone mentioned) and rather
like MOOs, though they take a bit more getting used to.

~mark

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