Collected Mud Technical Papers

This collection hasn't been updated in a very long time. It was once a working list related to a thesis proposal that was dropped.

Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat (Honours Thesis: Elizabeth M. Reid) In Postscript
Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities: In Postscript
MUDsGrowUp: A Xerox paper of the potential usefulness of the MUD paradigm. In Postscript
The Communicative Implications of a Text-Only Virtual Environment
Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication
ethnography
identity-workshop.ps
TechnicalReport: A quick glance shows this to be a comparison of LPmud, and LambdaMOO based systems. Also a good overview of general mud technology.
Moo Gopher: A xerox written paper about combining the technologies of moo's, and gopher. postscript
Xerox PARC FTP: This site from which all of these papers came. There may be new papers available, and these papers may be available in different formats.
Collaborative Networked Communication: MUDs as Systems Tools: This paper describes an existing use of muds as communication tools.