--- title: "DikuMUD Hall of Shame" description: "AxL lists Dark Pawns in a public accusation that several DikuMUD derivatives were not displaying the required credits." kind: "usenet-thread" dateLabel: "June 18, 2000" board: "rec.games.mud.misc" postCount: 1 completeness: "partial" completenessNote: "The introduction and Dark Pawns line are reproduced. Other named MUDs and all contact addresses are omitted." sourceSite: "Usenet" sourceUrl: "https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=rec.games.mud.misc&mid=PDM5NGU3OGEwXzFAbmV3cy5wbHltb3V0aC5lZHU%2B" captureUrl: "https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=rec.games.mud.misc&mid=PDM5NGU3OGEwXzFAbmV3cy5wbHltb3V0aC5lZHU%2B" recoveredAt: "2026-09-25T00:00:00.000Z" textKind: "edited-excerpt" canonical: "https://darkpawns.org/archive/usenet-2000-06-18-hall-of-shame/" --- ## In this conversation | Name | Role | Posts | | --- | --- | --- | | axl | unknown | 1 | *Transcript note: recovered from UsenetArchives. Email addresses and personal contact URLs are redacted; spelling, punctuation and the remaining text are preserved.* ### axl — Jun 18, 2000 20:00 UTC 
The DikuMUD Hall of Shame

	DikuMUD requires, among other things, that the original authors be
given credit for their work.  This comes in two forms; one, that their
names appear somewhere in the login sequence.  Two, that their names
appear in a "credits" or "help credits" command, available within the
game.
	The following muds are clearly based on the original DikuMUD code,
but in one way or another have refused one of both of the above.  The
addresses are left off on purpose, as this is not an advertisement.  It is
a listing to call addention to these disgraceful muds and their
administrators.

The List: (excerpt)

Dark Pawns       - Richard Paret               [email redacted]