> Any way in these worlds there is genrally a large number of public
> rooms, designed by the admin of that world, These rooms are not
> changeable by the general users. If you have a valid e-mail address
> you can get residency in these worlds and you get three rooms of your
> own. You then get to edit these rooms yourself.
>
M**'s are interesting places to look at for how virtual societies
develop. The distribution of quota and building tend to produce major
political battles. Many MUDs have big problems trying to deal with this
sort of virtual spamming. Very few are successful. I can add some more
virtual community links to the vworlds home page if anyone is interested
(http://www.etext.org/Zines/UnitCircle/vworlds/). In addition to the
MUDs suggested, I would point you to some of the following MUDs which
seem to have survived the "test of time", I don't have telnet addresses,
I just know about them. FurryMuck and LambdaMoo are both semi-thriving
virtual communities on the net. MediaMoo seems to have been a failure by
having too much direct control from the top.
Kevin