Subject: @players

From: [email-masked] (C. Regis Wilson)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:26:24 -0800

>help @players

Syntax:  @players [with objects]

Hmmm... what *does* this do, anyway?

:)  I have no idea, just from typing it, and the code doesn't seem to
explain its purpose.  (I can see what it's doing, but not why :)

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:50:05 -0800

> Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:26:24 -0800
> From:	[email-masked] (C. Regis Wilson)
> 
> >help @players
> 

With no arguments, this prints out some statistics about the number of players
who have most recently connected within various periods of time.  With the
extra argument, it also prints information about the number of objects each of
those classes of players owns.

One use for this is to see if old, dormant players and their possessions are
consuming a significant fraction of the DB space.  I've also used it to get a
sense of the demographics of LambdaMOO: what percentage of our players visit us
fairly frequently, etc.

	Pavel/Haakon