[azza-bazoo]

This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore.

It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them time out on me (then having to ;;reset to revive the session ...)

[zyxley]

Social MU*s usually have a keepalive option that does some silent character exchange in the background with the client every so often to keep the connection open.

[someben]

Hmm, do you have a specific example? (Of the MUD and client?)

[novum]

Parent is most likely referring to the telnet GOAHEAD character and its related SUPPRESS GOAHEAD protocol: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc858

I am the author of a MUD client for iOS[0] that, like most other clients, will capture and silently discard the GOAHEAD character. GOAHEAD is most common on MUSHes but I've seen them in a few MUDs as well.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mudrammer-a-modern-mud-clien...

[someben]

I've been tempted to send a "look" or "inv(entory)" command to keep-alive a session. Hmm...