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A "professional" mud listing should be one that has games listed that are backed up by a known company rather than individuals that run it as a hobby. Also, IMO "professional" is a bad term.
The idea of making a list based on if "people" gets paid by running it is not very accurate. On most of those muds that actually charge money i'm pretty sure there are lots and lots of non-paid workers that do quite a lot of the maintaining of the games. Are these also professionals? What if there is only one guy getting "paid" and he just pays the game bills and his whole staff is un-paid. Is that game runned professional?
You should not call such a list "professional" rather "commercial". There are a lot of non-commercial muds/games out there that are much more professionally created/maintained than a lof of the muds that produce an income in varying size.
Is "benny the mudadmin" who downloaded diku and made it a pay2play game and now is getting "rich" a professional or is "frodo baggins" who graduated master's degree in computer engineering and created his own game from scratch using innovative features a professional?
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