CHAT: MUCK (was: RE: Back from Texas; relay almost done)

Ed Heil:
> MUD = Multi User Dungeon (as per Dungeons & Dragons)
> MUSH = Multi User Shared Hallucination
> MUCK = Multi User something-that-sounds-like-MUD
> MOO = Mu*, Object Oriented
I don't understand MUCK, from your explanation. I am
wondering whether it means "Multi-User Fuck", which sounds
to be the sort of thing one would expect to exist on the net
(thanks largely to zabna Americans).

[Zabna = Lojban for meliorativity, sort of like the opposite
of "bloody".]

> They are an old feature of the Internet -- older than the World Wide
> Web by several years.  An artifact of the Paleolithic era, when
> people still knew how to use Telnet.
I have been searching for a Telnet function on my new Windows 98 pc.
Windows Help turns up nothing, which is no fucking surprise. (In
Microsoft's defence I should say that every time I email them to
complain about their products they reply, albeit with the same
bland & not very helpful response that nonetheless evidences at
least a small element of human involvement in its composition.)

--And.