Tuesday, October 19, 2004

 

LambdaMOO Down

Before the world of web browsers and instant messengers there were MOO's. A step above simple chat rooms and a step below the 'virtual worlds' of online gaming, MOO's were interactive chat where you maintain a permanent presence in the form of a character. They included not only chat but mailing lists, role playing games (if your old enough, think back to the days of Zork and the Scott Adams Adventures...pure text). Anyway LambdaMOO is the best and until about a week ago it was still around. It is the best because it is the most popular, online societies need population and with 100-200 people logged on at any given time LambdaMOO had it. Being a MOO, you don't access it by using a web browser directly. You use a program called telnet (you probably have it, just select 'run' and type in 'telnet'). Since the interface was pre-web, the medium was never invaded by the commercial spam that plagues Usenet and chat rooms. Word over on YibMOO is that Rog, Lambda's current caretaker, is having DSL trouble at his home and Lambda may be down until the end of the month. This is the longest I ever remember Lambda being down (and Boonton has graced its presence for over 10 years). Hopefully the society will remain undamaged by the outage but it is quite disturbing how difficult it is to get information. Sadly, no one has ever thought to maintain even a simple updated web page to let people know what's going on or who they can contact. If I get more information or you have some, please feel free to post it here in the comments. It will be a shame if the community drifts apart while we wait for the technical bugs to iron themselves out.

Comments:
HEY, FUCKBONE, JUST THOUGHT I'D SAY THANKS FOR SPAMMING THE LR WITH YOUR DUMBASS AD, YOU COCKSMOKING ASS-BANDIT.
 
This is what Boonton spams us with every few minutes:


Boonton holds up a BIG sign: http://TheEverWiseBoonton.blogspot.com

This is a response:

Wow. This blog really does suck as bad as everyone on LambdaMOO said it does. Way to go, Boonie.
 
BOONTON LIKES TO F IN THE B!!!!!!!!
 
******************************** `HELP MANNERS' *****************************==== DON'T ABUSE OTHER PLAYERS =====
The MOO is a fun place to socialize, program, and play as long as people are polite to each other. Rudeness and harassment make LambdaMOO less pleasant for everyone. Do not harass or abuse other players, using any tactic including:

* Spamming (filling their screen with unwanted text)
 
From LambdaMOO:
`HELP MANNERS'
DON'T ABUSE OTHER PLAYERS
The MOO is a fun place to socialize, program, and play as long as people are polite to each other. Rudeness and harassment make LambdaMOO less pleasant for everyone. Do not harass or abuse other players, using any tactic including:

* Spamming (filling their screen with unwanted text)
 
"Since the interface was pre-web, the medium was never invaded by the commercial spam that plagues Usenet and chat rooms."

What are you talking about? Usenet and chat both predate the web too. Besides, LambdaMOO has plenty of spam. I keep seeing the following, for example:

Boonton http://TheEverWiseBoonton.blogspot.com
 
Sheesh, it's now November 11 and Lambda is still down? The technical difficulties with DSL soon like BS to me, unless Rog is flat broke and didn't pay his bills.

Perhaps it's time to look for a new caretaker....

Mack
 
Wow.. I was just about to go to lambda to 'page help' for some help with a techy question... and when I couldn't reach lambda, that is when I poked around and hit your page. I must not realize how spoiled I am.... 'page help' is one of the well kept secrets of the moo... okay, I guess people have irc channels and other chats they can ask techy and non-techy questions on, but it's still rather amazing to have the equivalent of a smart, ever-shifting oracle of knowledge, day and night, you can ask your question to it, and you might get smartass remarks but you might get useful information too. so thank you to the characters who read 'help' and may have answered my questions in the past, present and future, and who might be reading boonton's blog right now... i love you all... hope lambda comes back soon..
 
Is it still down? Do let us know...
 
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