I might add to this discussion that there is a rather large player base of visually impaired or blind users of muds and the like, and switching to a non-telnet client solution would affectively ban all blind players. I must say that it is rather agrivating to find a mud, get really excited about playing it, and then find out that you must use a provided (completely unaccessible) client... Grendel's revenge comes to mind.  |