[-empyre-] OMGs?

["luke" <lduncalfe@eml.cc>]

I was wondering if any of the archives represented on the list this month
preserve the log files of any Online Multi-Player Games, which could be a
fascinating source of info to future cultural anthropologists. The discussion
and cultural growth, growing pains (albeit through the limitations of the game
world), and dips into real world issues of these games are all documented and
could be reconstructed in 100 years from the information.

Which touches on a second thing I've been wondering about, and that's the
ethics of archiving (particularly through the bots) and privacy?

Luke


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