> Yes, if someone could pound out some "beginner
> manuals" or make a list of good ones to check out,
> that would be Very helpful.

The problem is that so many people have so little usefulness to say...
or at least that's been my experience when I was just starting out
some sixteen years ago (yes, I hear you in back... they did have
computers back then.) There have been a number of book on the
subject, which are a
stand-up-walk-into-the-office-find-the-book's-titles-remember-them-and
-the-isbns-and-return-here-to-regurgate-them-back away, and frankly
that's just to far while my brain is processing Fear & Loathing in Las
Vegas (trippy).
It turns out to be a couple of hour (of days if you aren't good at it)
long search of google and dogpile and various other search engies to
skim through sites that do and don't have anything helpful to say on
the topic (and let us not forget that by using MUX, like D&D, will
corrupt the soul and send us to hell) before moving onto the next
topic. Without getting paid for it, such a job wouldn't be worth it
-- trust me, I know.

So, while the flavour (damn Canadians) of my text says, 'It's
hopeless, so give up', try not to let that discourage you. It may
take awhile, but the information you do manage to find you will hold
dear to your heart like a toothless gold miner and eight ounces of
gold dust.

> Also, can you make a Mux run through IRC?

Yes. How helpful was that? I know, not very. Thing is, I've seen it
done but for the life of me can't remember where it was. But on one
list or another, someone posted a bot (if you know what that means)
that does that very thing. I don't know what the bot did, I think it
only ran the simplest of commands (WHO and page or the like) but it
was done. Something like MudNet I suspect (another bot, which is at
MudNet.org, I believe).

So, in conclusion, if you take nothing away from this mindless
dribble, just remember that I've had far to little sleep and far to
many twelve hour shifts and my advice may not or may not be valid.
Follow at your own peril.

P.S.: I blame the ozone layer for my typographical and just plain poor
spelling. Save the rain forest. Hug a whale.