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on (nice for developers), the telnet address written out, an active hyperlink to the telnet site and Web home page if one exists, and a short but useful description of the Mud. The list is alphabetized and broken into four sections for easy loading. There are also forms for submitting your Mud to the list. There is even a page for dead links in case you want to see what has gone before.
367:), and you'll see there are a lot to choose from. In fact, there are too many to choose from; 1,795 when this article was written. The good news: it's fairly easy to distinguish the good MUDs from the bad MUDs. The bad news: there are a LOT of bad MUDs. It's just a matter of sorting through the chaff and finding the MUD that's right for you. Got your notepad open? Good! ..."
242:"The Mud Connector" is a complete on-line service designed to provide the most up-to-date listings of registered Multiuser on-line games. Every entry lists the site of the game, the base code used, descriptions of the game as submitted by the administrators, links to WWW homepages (when available), and Telnet links to the game.
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has just about everything you could possibly need to get on a MUD. It has MUD-related links to FAQs, newsgroups and clients; as well as player discussions and forums about different MUDs. This site also has a listing of over 500 MUDs, with pretty useful descriptions of what you can expect to find
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