Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@netcom.com>]

In rec.arts.int-fiction Magnus Olsson <mol@bartlet.df.lth.se> wrote:
> And as for the ifMUD - I've only visited the place once, during the
> 1997 XYZZY awards ceremony. I pay for internet access by the minute,
> and connecting to a MUD from work would be too flagrant a breach of
> the traditional Swedish Lutheran work ethics. :-)
> 
> Which is a pity, because I gather that most of the goings-on on
> today's IF scene go on at the MUD, rather than in the newsgroups.

Eh, not really. The MUD is a gossip center and font of random
conversation, among a group of people who are a *subset* of the RAIF
regulars. Most of the time we're not talking about IF at all.

(I'd recommend the Implementor's Lunches as an exception, but I've missed
every single one since the first. Sigh.)

If anything, I'd say that most of the goings-on in modern IF have moved to
our individual apartments, studies, and offices. The trend I see is that
people are implementing their ideas, instead of bringing them up on the
newsgroup for discussion.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."