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Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

"Hello Mr Admin, Kaine here from sector 7G. Yeah, that's right, the computer illiterate. I seem to be having trouble getting a connection with this program I use called Zmud through your firewall. Seems like I need to get port 1080 enabled or something like that, could you do that for me please? Oh, what's Zmud for? Um well, it lets me connect to a *mumble* a mud. What's a mud?, well it's sortof likea *mumble* game."
*click*
"Hello? Hello? Mr Admin are you there? ..."

That's how I see the conversation going, does anyone have some suggestions on how I can ask this without
1: sounding like the computer moron I am.
2: having him laugh in my face?
Cheers,
Kaine

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 9:21 am

Not really a question for the zMUD forum.. but..

I'd say it depends where you're talking about, if its office/work, then you should forget it I guess, since you're not paid to play around :) If its school/uni/whatever, try and find someone who knows what they're talking about, and get them to ask, you never know, might work.

Otherwise.. do you connect to the internet through a proxy? Maybe you can set up zMUD to use that..

Lady C.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Check that location's policy on computer usage first.

If you can use that computer asset for mudding, then I'd talk to the
IT department unofficially to see if you can play a multi-player
text game during your lunches (whatever policy allows) and see what
they say. Proxy is an interesting solution but then it depends on
the policy what the firewall picks up on outbound traffic and what
gets flagged. Fear productivity control!

Ton Diening

Novice Joined: 19 Dec 2000 Posts: 39

If it's work your talking about, then zmud is not for games, and muds are not games, zmud is a telnet chat client with other features that might come in handy. As for the mud.. it's a place to connect to where you can get support for your work without having to leave your desk.

Well.. that's what I told my boss's back when.

Use advice at your own risk.