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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</H1>
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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>&gt;,       "Koster, Raph" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>&gt;</LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>&gt;</LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:42:43 -0500</LI>
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&gt; -----Original Message-----
&gt; From: J C Lawrence [<A  HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>]
&gt; Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 1:25 PM
&gt; To: rkoster#origin,ea.com; mud-dev#kanga,nu
&gt; Subject: [MUD-Dev] Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals
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&gt; He has a point, not only in comparison to MUD-Dev itself (MUD-Dev is
&gt; a MUD!  No its not!), but to our more standard fare of MUDs:
&gt; 
&gt;  <A  HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15611.html">http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15611.html</A>
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&gt; Declaring virtual communities an oxymoron, Sterling told ApacheCon
&gt; 98 attendees that he thinks people gathering together on the Web
&gt; need peer review systems like those used in scientific communities.

In fact, he and I have now talked at some length about this. He's really
into the idea of writing a mail list system that actually handles a peer
review process, or at the very least a mail list equivalent to
reputation points. I suggested that this could be done even with the
tools we have today, if someone were willing to handle email balloting;
we discussed the same sorts of pitfalls that had arisen with designs for
reputation point systems in muds.

-Raph


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00245" HREF="msg00245.html">[MUD-Dev] FW: Book?</A></strong>, 
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Mon 19 Oct 1998, 16:34 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00223" HREF="msg00223.html">[MUD-Dev] OT: TTYQuake</A></strong>, 
Niklas Elmqvist <a href="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 05:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00228" HREF="msg00228.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: TTYQuake</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 18:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00229" HREF="msg00229.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: TTYQuake</A></strong>, 
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 19:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00219" HREF="msg00219.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 15 Oct 1998, 21:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00252" HREF="msg00252.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 19 Oct 1998, 23:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00253" HREF="msg00253.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 20 Oct 1998, 00:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00255" HREF="msg00255.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,slimy.com">jleonard#divcom,slimy.com</a>, Tue 20 Oct 1998, 01:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00259" HREF="msg00259.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Tue 20 Oct 1998, 02:49 GMT
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