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I'm not sure I agree.
Granted, I have no numbers of any kind to back this up, but my theory of the moment is this:
1) Mudding is a hobby largely spread by word-of-mouth.
2) People starting half-assed lame stock DIKUs got friends of theirs into it, probably people who wouldn't otherwise have been exposed to MUDs.
3) Some percentage of those people were later exposed to Avalon et. al. and thought "Wow, this is way better than my buddy's MUD. I'll play this instead."
I think the hobby has been grown to some degree due to the existance and relative ease-of-use of DIKU, and that it's probably that non-DIKU-related MUDs have still seen some benefit from it.
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