What is this, some sort of slippery slope? If you give up the ability to have intimate knowledge of the private conversations of your players, the glue that binds the MUD will come undone? Sorry, but that's just stupid.
OK, I'm calling BS on this. Nearly every IRC server has a disclaimer of legal liability for messages passing through their networks, and most are still around and kicking with no problems. What makes MUDs any different?
No. Those players that want the special advantage would just take it to IM, where it's far more conveniant to pass private messages than by copy/pasting text into a decryptor.
Here again with the slippery slope.
I'm at a complete loss as to how this analogy applies to me, the only one who has been spouting off at the control-freakiness of the nanny admins. What in the world are you talking about?
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