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Tells are simply a means of sending a message to another player in the mud. Whether or not they are OOC depends entirely on the mud and implementation in question.
And that was my very point. A 'tell' can be IC or OOC and - like many of the points raised here - how appropriate it is to a roleplaying mud depends entirely on the theme of that mud.
Thus going back to the 'telepathy' example I gave previously: In a high-fantasy mud where the player classes all possessed powerful telepathic skills, even a stock 'tell' command could very reasonably be considered IC.
And even if you want to try a really tacky argument like claiming that the definition of 'tell' is 'an OOC message' (which it isn't), I think I should point out that the original poster specifically stated '"IC" tells'.
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