Subject: Guest Logins

From: [email-masked] (Frank Crowell)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:34:18 -0700

"Why Vrooms?".  Well reading some postings in the LPmud
newsgroup about one-shot character creations, another use of VRoom 
would be to eliminate some of the silly
character creations that are done on some muds just so that
someone can talk to another person on mud.
[yes, i know that the players can come in as guest, except:
	1. only one guest is allowed on most systems
	2. the people don't use guest, they create a character
and if you don't fully understand why people do #2, read #1 again for one
reason why; there are other reason also]

But then a more general question also occurs to me: why not
have visitor status characters. Basically, a visitor character
can exist for the duration of that one session, then is purged.

Too silly? Well consider this. I want to invite 500 of my closest
LPmud friends over for an evening at my favorite MOO.
Hm.  SillyPerson say "Guest237, would you like more root beer?"

Maybe "visitor" could mean "named, invited guest", if security was
an issue. Pleez no badges!

Comments? ImplementationNotes?
[Wait, 'implementation' is too long and formal--> BuilderNotes?]

-- 
Frank Crowell [email-masked]
[This Space for Rent]

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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:14:00 -0700

On some muds, guests are allowed to temporarily name and describe
themselves.  This has been proposed on LambdaMOO; we have allowed guests
to describe themselves though not yet to name themselves.

LambdaMOO has ten guest characters, and the LambdaCore provides the code
for having many guests, just create more children of $guest.  I have
never seen more than four or so guests in use at a random time, though
we sometimes have lots of guests when someone gives a talk about MOO and
invites everyone to be a Guest on Lambda.  I think the only times we've
actually run out of guests have been when some idiot has decided to try
finding out just what happens when they personally login all 10 guests.
(They get turned into a newt, if we catch them :-)
							yduJ