i know i, for one, would not pay to run a mud. i enjoy running a mud, and i do not expect any reward for running one, but i would not pay to run one. my mud runs on the sysadmins pc, and i spose he was lucky because he likes muds too. but if this site was taken away, i would look for a new free one, and not finding one, run it myself on my pc, just for the fun of building it. maybe if i could make it good enough, i would find another site for free, but i dont have the money to pay for a site every month... just my opinion Nic Suzor At 10:45 AM 11/8/96 -0600, Ole Gjerde wrote: >On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, claywar wrote: > >> Depends, some will run it for free, some not. I saw a commercial mud >> running business that wanted 50$/mo to host your mud (which I think is >> outrageous). Listen, get yourself a static ip, and install some type of > >You have the right to your opinion, but what have you been smoking? >50$/month outrageous? I don't think it. It is quite reasonable >actually. I pay that amount to mudservices.com every month, but I >don't think it's too bad. You get a lot for that money, and you use >quite a bit of their resources. Do you expect to get it for free? > >Nothing is free. Someone is always paying for it. :) > >> unix on your system, it gives you a whole lot more freedom of system >> admin. > >This is a good idea.. Except it might get a little slow on a modem.. > >---- >Ole Gjerde >Homepage: http://www.pconline.com/~gjerde >Email: gjerde@plains.nodak.edu, gjerde@pconline.com >Studying Computer Science at North Dakota State University >"Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." > -- Unknown/Nem Schlecht > >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ >| Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | >| http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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