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"Cheater" is just a name, imbued with whatever value you choose to place on it.
Regardless, the reality is that the game operator has absolute discretion in terms of defining cheating in any meaningful way. You may not feel you're cheating if you're crashing the game repeatedly, but you' d be banned and, if you somehow found a way to do it such that you couldn't be quickly stopped, you'd also quickly be sued in the case of a commercial MUD, and you'd lose. I'm guessing criminal penalties would also be applicable but I'm not a lawyer.
So I mean, whether it's "cheating" or not doesn't really matter. It's semantics. If the developer feels certain players or actions are harming the developers interests (which are generally oriented around ensuring its players are generally enjoying themselves), the developer is going to take action (and reasonably so).
--matt
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