Subject: Newbie MOO admin

From: [email-masked] (Billy Chambless)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 12:58:54 -0700

Is there a general "idiot's guide" to setting up a new MOO, in addition
to the programming guides? I've got my MOO running with a version of
the Lambdacore db, and have done a little programming, but I sure could use
help in things like changing system messages etc.
Thanks!

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* In Real Life: Billy Chambless		    University of Southern Mississippi 
* "Blast it, Jim, I'm a programmer, not an electrician!!"
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From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 14:36:58 -0700

>   to the programming guides? 

The short answer is, "No".  Documentation is a problem in general and
wizard documentation has historically had a low priority (wizards
already know what they're doing, you see... :-).  

There are however some random help topics from which useful
information may be extracted.  The one you'll want to look at first is

  help $login

The $login object centralizes most of the functions for controlling
access, e.g. setting the welcome message and the list of commands
available to not-logged-in players, maintaining site blacklists and
redlists, disabling player creation, and other good stuff.  In short
it determines who can login to your MOO; you'll want to establish
control over that early on.  

Once you decide who you want to let on and get the $login parameters
set the way you want (and understand about @redlist, @blacklist, @toad
and @newt), then you can go through the rest at your leisure and not
be completely at a loss when annoying guests show up or when players
start doing nasty things.

For the rest, you'll want to look through the topics listed in 

  help wiz-index

which collectively contain what little has been written about how to run 
a MOO using LambdaCore.
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Roger Crew
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