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Yes, Dulan, I think you'd better dig up that e-mail. If you are going to virtually call someone a liar, you should be prepared to back it up with hard facts.
I guess this is a case of semantic. My wordbook defines Implement as 'accomplish, achieve' or 'to give practical effect to and ensure of actual fulfillment by concrete measures'. Within that definition, Builders implement too. When I put the zones I made in the game and connect them to the rest of the world, I am implementing them.
Most likely Implementor was a title first used for the coders in the mud world. To most people in the mudding community today however, I think Implementor mainly means RANK - the top guy in the mud, whatever their actual background may be. Rather like an Executive or a Director is the one that carries out the actions and decisions, based on the job mostly done by others in a firm. The Director of an Engineer Company does not necessarily need to be an engineer, the Director of a hospital does not need to be a doctor. All Implementors are de facto not coders, even if most of them know at least something about code. And the Mud owner is always Implementor, since that is top rank.
As for Questors I really admire their work and it is very important for the mud, but they are in fact not creating anything that lasts, therefore by definition would not be Builders, and I actually see no reason why they would want to call themselves that either - unless of course they build too. It could well be that had Questor had Implementor's rank on a mud however, even though I also see little reason for a Questor to have shell access, unless he also does some coding or building
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