The channels system provides a simple way for a group of wizards to communicate with one another. Channels are similar to a radio with several frequencies (hence the name channels). There are several channels you can listen to, and any wizard can tune a particular channel in or out at any time. You can listen on as many channels as you like, or on none of them. You can also broadcast a message on any channel you are tuned to, and anyone who is listening to that channel will hear it. The channels that are available are: wiz. The basic wizard channel, for wizardly subjects. question. The channel for asking questions, and getting answers. gossip. The channel for non-MUD related stuff. mudlib. For things related to the wizards in the mudlib domain. driver. The same, for the driver domain. doc. And, of course, the documentation domain. admin. For discussions among the admins. Non-admins can't tune this one. gwiz. This channel is received by the muds on the UDP network. The last channel sends messages across the network, so please don't use it unless you really have something that's of interest to a lot of people. The commands for using channels are these. To tune into or out of a channel, use the tune command. You can tune wiz in tune wiz out tune wiz where the last one will change your current setting to the opposite. You can broadcast a message by typing: wiz <message> or any other channel, if you are tuned into it. You can also emote over a channel, by using this format: wiz :emote flops across the Internet. This is displayed as: [wiz] Inspiral flops across the Internet. In addition, you can: tune in tune out to tune into all the channels you have access to, or tune them all out. You can use the show command to show all your active channels with show channels and you can see who's listening to a particular channel with show wiz or other channel name. Lastly, the channels command will show you a list of all possible channels.