Jeremy, You have made some excellent points on why CircleMUD should switch to ASCII playerfiles. But, the main reason I chose Circle in the first place was because of the space saved with binary files. Most (I'm not saying all) of us, who run Circle based MUDs are either paying for a site, where we are charged for usage of system resources (which includes diskspace), or we are running on public (i.e. University owned computers) and have to maintain the good graces of our sysadmins, thus a 4 meg pfile (with about 200+ players) would be better than 10's of megs of ASCII playerfiles, which can be even more easily edited by those who should not be able to touch them (i.e. there is an area builder who has access to the accounts, he sees that they are ASCII playerfiles, and makes himself an IMPL.....). But, as far as boards go (but don't do it for player mail) I think they should be in ASCII text. Thanks for listening to my $.02 - Sean
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