From - Sun Sep 27 11:43:29 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:43:07 -0500
From: Myrla Kurosawa <myrla@kef.net>
Organization: Ka'at Exploration Fleet
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Subject: Re: Frequently asked but rarely answered questions and an UPDATE

Ragnar Fyri wrote:
> 
> 'Twas the night before 26-Sep-98, and all through the net,
> not a creature was stirring, except for Talbain@ix.netcom.com,
> who whispered ominously:
> 
> >This is a neat idea.  Maybe it's just the mayor in me talking, but why
> *can't*
> >we give the guests
> >something special?
> 
> Yeah, give'em the keys to the city! ;)

Thats something the Mayor usually does.. Salem? You wanna see to that? 
:)


> >----- Zombie pages -----
> 
> >Why shouldn't puppets be allowed to page?  What if I need to contact my cubs
> >or vice versa?  My
> >cubs are puppets and should not be discriminated against soley because of
> >this. :)
> 
> I hope that was an IC comment because OOC I can't see *any* need for paging
> my own puppets. About as useful as talking to my alt...
> Anyway you can't page puppets. Both they and players can page, but only
> players can receive...

Hmm.. I used to do that all the time.. talk to my alts, that is..  I can
roleplay pretty good by myself  :) just me and my alts.

Its more fun with someone else's character, though.


> >    the mailing list.  I've seen it said
> >that the main problem
> >is that furs don't know about it, not that they don't want to be on it.
> 
> Just got an idea. Something between constant nagging and a single message
> noone (?) reads could be the answer. On TF&F they have (or had and will
> have) this puppet (orwhatever it is) called Inspector Gadget that wanders
> about and gives random advice to anyone it meets. A slighty more advanced
> one could check if people it meets are set mailing_list:yes and whisper a
> reminder if they're not. (People who don't want to be on the list could
> set mailing_list:no) It would keep track of who it has pestered already
> so they wouldn't be nagged more than once a day or once each logon. Oh, and
> it should check if they are idle and maybe afk!
> Well that's an idea for an IC solution. Maybe use some psychology and make
> it look like a sad little waif who's crying because there are so few people
> on the list... ;)

Interesting idea.. why dont you work something up and show me how it
works? If I like it, we'll implement it.

                              ...Myrla


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