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# Re: Monitoring on MOOs and wizards' roles

- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:22:57 PDT
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    >>   I'd like to address the issue of wizards using their power to monitor
    >> people through the use of #0:do_command and other such devices.  Is this
    >> morally wrong?  I'd like to hear what people think about the use of
    >> things like this that are in use at places such as CaxyMOO and HT (last
    >> time I checked).
    >>   Comments, anyone?

    I use logging in techMOO, which is not an open system right now. I normally
    have a short talk with everybody before giving them a character and there I
    tell them that I - for example - count how often they use various commands
    and that there is a log that stores how they move to the MOO. There is NO
    logging of personal information however which makes this type of logging
    not really an invasion of privacy. I installed the logging functions not on
    #0:do_command as I log only a few selected things (navigation). The logging
    functions can be disabled by setting a flag on the player to 0 so if
    somebody strongly resists being logged I can disable logging for that
    person.

    In Austria - where I originally come from - logging of all person related
    data is legal only when you have the ok from the person logged (actually
    there are evenmore rules I dont want to go into here). It is similar with
    many other countries. I think that as MOOs are accessible not only to
    people from one country we have to be very careful when logging and I
    generally think people should know that logging is active and what you log.
    If you explain what you use it for they normally dont mind anyway so there
    seldom is a real reason to hide logging from them.

    Well- in my case - when I will make TechMOO an open system ( I plan to do
    that in a month or so) then I will either disable logging (quite unlikely)
    or rather provide a warning message in the login message. AND I will tell
    people that if they object to being logged they shall send me mail and I
    will toggle the logging switch for their player character.

    Andreas

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