Re: Are MUDs dying?

Dread Quixadhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be an interesting project to write a small test script (perl, 
> tinyfugue, etc) to log into every mud listed in the mud connector's 
> database and do either a who or status command to list how many users 
> were logged in, and capture the resulting number of entries.

I guess you just found yourself something to do then :)

> I know mudconnector already does a connectivity check (I assume just a 
> telnet to the port to see if it accepts connections), so it wouldn't be 
> hard for THEM to extend their scripts -- provided the muds in question 
> don't mind a "whobot" character or similar being created.

The problem is you would need to create an account on every mud. What a
pain in the arse. It might be nice if all muds accepted 'WHO' as the
first command (be it entering a name or a menu option) and get a list.

> Has anyone out there coded an SNMP interface to their mud server?  It'd 
> be rather cool to hook into mrtg and let it generate user graphs and 
> such as well...

Get coding then :)

> Ah well, rambling... :)

Oh Pah, one of those all talkers, no doers then ;)

Regards
Nigel

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