From - Sat Sep 26 07:01:19 1998
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:50:06 +0200
From: Gyroplast <gyroplast@wtal.de>
Organization: Nat. Software Service
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Subject: Frequently asked but rarely answered questions and an UPDATE

Hiya everyfur!

Those who know me are already aware of
my degeneration symptoms; I only signed
on
at the wiz-list, not here. :P

Thanks to Jabari (*HUG*), who sent me a
package of mails sent to this list, now
I'm
able to fully participate and drop in my
two cents what I am going to do right
now...

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I-don't-know-who-exactly-posted-this-I-just-pasted-it-here-and-I'm-too-lazy-to-look-it-up
wrote:

> > We could perhaps geta TRaM device that works on guests. They've got one on
> > TF&F... could be interesting to see how often it gets used!
>
> There's an idea.  Gyro is in charge of guest maintenance now.  Give any
> ideas you have regarding them to him. 

Yeah, give ME the ideas! Stop pestering
Myrla! =)

The TRaM sounds like a good idea to me,
but...
do we REALLY have to give _guesties_ the
amenity of being UNIQUE? (Well, almost
unique)
I'd be personally offended if a guest
would've got a better desc than me... ;)

> > I made a remark about this to Gyroplast, and he said "They are guests! If
> > they want descs they can get a char." To paraphrase that, they are guests!
> > If they want to be male they can geta char... ;)

*grins and bounces*
Wow! I've been quoted! Is this going to
run after me for YEARS now?! 
Am I referred to as 'the guestie-hater'?
Hopefully not... :) I'm quite
friendly... most of the time.

----- Warning, kinda off-topic! ----

> > [BTW would it be possible to have a program keep an eye on a list of objects
> > and let me know whenever I stop owning one of them? Just a thought...]
>
> I dunno.  It might be possible. Talk to Gyroplast about it.

I know, it's kinda off-topic, but YES,
it is possible.
If anyone else wants to have that
proggie when it's finished, page me.
Ah, forget that, I'll put it into the
public PLIB. :)


----- Problems with changing the owner
of a room to enhance the MUCK ----

> > Do you wizzes mind getting asked to assist with
> > takeovers like this? And is there a way I can send
> > a message so it will be received by the first wizard who connects?

Myrla stated that you should ask a
building wiz, and thats a good idea if
you can choice between more than one
connected wiz.
But since there's not always a build-wiz
online, I don't think
a 'non-building' wiz would rip your head
off if you ask for some help that'll
take up about 10 seconds and does not
even force the wiz to leave his/her/hir
current location.... At least I won't,
YMMV. ;)

The wiz-online-page thingie.. 
There's nothing like that available,
AFAIK, but if there's a real
need for it, I could do something like a
'Wiz-Call'. What do the others think
about it? 
Should this be implemented?


-- That confuzzling teleport
destinations problem --

> Hmm, two parks? Okay, guess
> Central Park is the one... (type type) teleportn Hey, where is everybody?
>
> That's a very good issue.  The "dests" listing is part of the tport
> program and only provides the actual name of the tport location. I
> agree, though that a better tport list should be provided. That will be
> looked into soon.

It has been looked into as you might
have noticed already.
I cleaned it up a bit by changing the
descs;
Too bad that the program cuts them off
if they're too long and inserts those
silly '...'.
That's why the descriptions are actually
a bit awkward, but I couldn't imagine
better ones, sorry. If you have better,
'SHORT' descs, don't hesitate to tell
me!

----- Zombie pages -----

> > The easiest "solution" (for those who consider this a problem ;)) would be
> > to not let zombies page (They can't on Furry. Haven't checked on TFF because
> > it's down. sobn) but maybe, just to be a bit creative, someone could look
> > into the possibilities of having zombie pages appear a as e.g.
> > "In a page-pose to you, [Jabari's] Kitzuka stretches her wings."
> > Would probably require a fairly major rewrite of the page program, though.
> > Oh well...
>
> Interesting idea.. is it worth the effort?

No, it's not. :P
But when enough furs complain about
that, I might do it anyway. Or when I'm
BADLY bored.
Or when I'm only mildly bored and TOLD
to do it. :)


----- LOW PARTICIPATION IN THIS MAILING
LIST -----

> How about this: On Furry (and probably other mucks but I haven't
> checked) they have a program called Nag which keeps checking a specified
> property for a specified content and keeps reminding you as long as it
> doesn't change. Kind of like an unregistered shareware program. ;)
[snibblesnibblesnipsnip]
> Suppose we got such a program installed here and had it set up to
> watch all players by default (preferably without setting it up separately
> for each player!) and keep reminding the unregistered ones, "You are not
> on the mailing list! Read the MOTD!" The instructions for how to stop the
> nagging (by setting a special porp or something) would be part of the list's
> welcome message, so they would have to subscribe to find out. Once they
> have turned off the nagging they are of course free to unsubscribe, but
> then they will at least have tried it and decided not to continue with it.

You want the MUCK to become naggy like
SHAREWARE?!?! ARE YOU INSANE? 
No, serious... 
It might already help to shorten the
MOTD, it spams me everytime I connect
(Well, thats the point of the MOTD, I
guess), and the mesgs scroll up and up
'til
they're out'o'sight... and who wants to
scroll around to read the @bulletin?
Besides, a program that prints out a
line at connection (I assume this is
what the prog does, no?)
wouldn't be more of a help than the
@bulletin, I think.

----- DONE ----

All those spacings and dashes... it's
looking like a newsgroup post... *shrug*

Thanks for listening that long to my
mind's weird escapades...
And now log on and have PHUN at
FuzzyLogic!


Gyroplast

-- 
"Reality? Whazzat? Oh, yeah, that's the
annoying time between system crashes,
isn't it?"

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