(Intro to MOOing and General Planning -- repeat)

NETEACH Nook
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Your typical classroom.  It has that new smell to it, and it is empty. All
 walls are primed with white paint and are bare, except for one light switch.
You see Teacher's Desk, Big Table, Bulletin Board, Beanbags, Fireside
 Bearskin, Kitchen Table, and Wading Pool.
You see Yoshi, smoody [Guest], thinking, and Frizzy standing about.
You see LCD Panel.
Obvious exits: out
Gregor whooshes in like a... um...whooshing...thing.
Frizzy hugs thinking!
Frizzy hugs Gregor!
thinking hugs everyone one more time
Frizzy says, "Oh, what the heck, GROUP HUG!"
Gregor . o O ( smoody....now who the dickens could THAT be? :o)   )
thinking says, "yup a little used to mooing."
smoody [Guest] says, "How do you do a GROUP HUG?"
Frizzy thinks smoody just did one! *hee hee*
Gregor grins and waves to lots of Sus***'s, a Friz, and a Japanese guy! ;o)
Gregor [to smoody [Guest]]: Like this:
Gregor tackles everyone in the room in a mighty group hug!
Ron is going to try to join you.
Yoshi bows to Mr. Gregor gracefully.
Ron has arrived.
smoody [Guest] says, "hello Ron"
Gregor says, "Howdy, Ron!"
Frizzy giggles cuz she's ticklish.
Ron says, "Hi folks."
thinking says, "hi ron"
Frizzy hugs Pa.
Gregor's tickled cuz Frizzy's gigglish.
Frizzy snorts and guffaws.
Gregor chortles and yuks.
Ron hugs Frizzy with a warm and loving embrace.
Ron says, "Hi Yoshi."
Frizzy notes that she left Corwin at the entrance gates to help newbies.
Yoshi says, "Hi Ron."
Ron says, "Hi thinking."
Gregor says, "ooo, cool, someone from Greece logged in!"
Frizzy says, "Wow!"
Gregor says, "Hi! Who's here?"
thinking says, "I'm here :-)"
smoody [Guest] says, "Smoody's here.  "
puzzled [Guest] slides in, ready to NETwork.
thinking says, "thinks that is not what gregor wanted."
Ron says, "Hi Mehi>"
puzzled [Guest] says, "hi everyone, am I late or early?"
Gregor says, "Hi, puzzled!"
Ron says, "Hi Corwin.  You're looking caffienated."
Gregor [to puzzled [Guest]]: You're right on time!
thinking [to puzzled [Guest]]: neither
Frizzy [to puzzled [Guest]]: "You're right on time. :)"
Gregor lags a bit.
Yoshi [to puzzled [Guest]]: No, you're not;)
Frizzy nudges Gregor.
smoody [Guest] says, "Will we know when the meeting has started?"
Frizzy grins.
Gregor says, "OK, we'll wait a few more minutes for people to log in. Anyone need
 coffee? A beer?"
Ron says, "Hi, Susan!"
Frizzy [to smoody [Guest]]: "Yes, Czar Gregor will lead the way."
smoody [Guest] [to Ron]: "Are Gregor saysing hi to me?
puzzled [Guest] [to Corwin]: Hi from Greece
Gregor says, "We're well-stocked with Susans today."
thinking [to Ron]: wonders which susan he means....
Frizzy [to puzzled [Guest]]: "It's nice to have the Greek ambassador for
 NETEACH here today. :)"
Ron says, "The time in Richmond, Virginia, USA is now 8:01 p.m. on Wednesday"
thinking keeps on lagging.
Frizzy detects a slight, yet annoying, lag. :P
Yoshi feels some lag on his side, but he thinks it's from the net.
Gregor thinks lag is a bad idea right now.
Ron says, "Whoa! I'm lagging."
Gregor thinks lag is a REALLY bad idea right now.
Gregor reminds people that lag is nothing to panic about.
Yoshi says, "We didn't talk about the lag last time, did we?"
thinking thinks she stoped lagging.

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  Welcome to NETEACH-L's (second) premiere MOO discussion session!

        (with much appreciation to schMOOze University 
        and its fine players, programmers, and wizards!)

           Please note! This session is being logged.
           For a transcript, please see our web page:
         http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/netmoo.html

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Gregor says, "Welcome, everyone!"
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Let's find out where we should start. Are you a 'Newbie?'

If you would like some instruction in MOO commands before we go on, 
type:
        "I need some instructions!   

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smoody [Guest] says, "I need some instructions!"
puzzled [Guest] says, "I need some instr"
Gregor [to smoody [Guest]]: Good job! Hee hee! You already passed the first
 lesson!
Gregor grins.
smoody [Guest] says, "I hope the rest of the lesson is that easy!"
Gregor says, "I think it is. Let's go through a few basics."
Mehitabel is going to try to join you.
Mehitabel has arrived.
Ron says, "Hi Mehi!"
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say and "
  Usage:      "Hi, everyone!

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Mehitabel waves.
thinking waves to mehi
Gregor says, "You know this one...it's the basic communication command."
Gregor says, "In unison, people! "Hi, everyone!   "
Yoshi says, "Hi, everyone!"
puzzled [Guest] says, "Hi y'all"
thinking says, "hi everyone"
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page 
  Usage:      page friz Smashing Pumpkins RULE!!!

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Mehitabel says, "hi, everyone!"
archy is going to try to join you.
archy has arrived.
Ron says, "Hi everyone!"
archy waves
Frizzy says, "Hi every last one of ya!"
thinking waves to archy
Yoshi says, "Hi archy."
Gregor says, "This one's for talking to people who are NOT in the same room with
 you.."
Ron says, "hi archy!"
Gregor waves to archy.
Yoshi [to Gregor]: Shall we fload Frizzy with page messages now?
archy thinks the room looks kinda crowded, and hopes folks watch thier steps,
 as to not step on life forms smaller than thenselves
Gregor [to Frizzy]: Are you getting paged?
Frizzy hasn't seen a page yet. :(
Frizzy has seen many now. :)
Corwin slides in, ready to NETwork.
Corwin waves
thinking waves to Corwin
Yoshi [to archy]: You can crawl up on my head, if it's safer for ya.
Gregor says, "Cool! Any questions about page?"
Frizzy [to puzzled [Guest]]: "Did you try paging?  Just type:   page friz 
 blah blah blah"
puzzled [Guest] waves vigourously
archy shudders ... climbing on a mammal? aren't they slimey?
Gregor says, "Any questions about paging?"
smoody [Guest] says, "Not from me"
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@who
  Usage:      @who      or @who 

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Gregor says, "That one's easy...lets you know who else is MOOing now."
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emote and : and ::
  Usage:      :is just sick that this is his (her) first time MOOing.
              ::'s head reels with the pedagogical implications.

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puzzled [Guest] says, "that's a lot of people"
Gregor emotes
Gregor's emote outshines all the others.
archy has to fly
archy scurries to the wall, finds a crack in the baseboard, and disappears.
thinking loves emoting.....
Ron is amazed at the turnout tonight.
puzzled [Guest] doesn't emote one bit
Gregor points out that emoting is a good deal of the fun of MOOing. :o)
Frizzy really *does* think Smashing Pumpkins rule!
Yoshi laughs, "You are, puzzled!"
Gregor does an impressive cartwheel.
Green slides in, ready to NETwork.
Ron nods.
Ron grins.
Green says, "Am I late?"
thinking waves to green
Gregor encourages smoody and green to act up! :o)
Corwin says, "Hiya Green"
Yoshi says, "Hi Green.  We're going over some basic commands now."
Green says, "Hi"
Green has disconnected.
Ron says, "Hi Green!"
Frizzy notes that everyone is emoting like crazy.
smoody [Guest] laughs outloud
Yoshi says, "say, emote, @who, @page so far."
Frizzy notes that everyone is now lagging like crazy, too. :P
Corwin lags bigtime
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look
  Usage:      look (or just l)

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Gregor lags most unfortunately!
Gregor grrrrrs at the untimely lag.
puzzled [Guest] laggin laggin laggin
Gregor says, "BTW, when lag hits, JUST WAIT. There's no need to log out and back
 on."
Gregor says, "the LOOK command, without anything after it, shows you the room
 you're in...."
Gregor says, "This can be useful for finding the exit and finding out who's with
 you."
smoody [Guest] says, "Nice room!"
thinking says, "I Have a question"
Gregor [to thinking]: Yes>?
thinking says, "When I type Lfrizzy I don't see her description"
puzzled [Guest] says, "bearskin? I like bears"
thinking says, "you said i could type l"
Frizzy grins at puzzled.
Mehitabel says, "You need a space."
thinking [to Mehitabel]: thank you very much
Gregor [to thinking]: You need to put a space in between L and Friz
Frizzy [to Frizzy]: "it's all fake fur 'round here."
Corwin [to thinking]: you need a space i.e. l frizzy
thinking notes this in her notebook
thinking scratches away
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look