Woozer removed for using another player's character (without consent, though that is not so relevant).

Today is the Presidential election day in Finland, and consequently also the last day to Vote for the candidate of your personal preference. Many claim that the President has little power as of today, however, he (or she) does nominate many important officials in the Finnish power structure. BatMUD administration encourages everyone of taking a little time today to go and vote, besides it's a nice day outside. (Right this time :))

Melemkor has been promoted to level 120 for his outstanding work and designs in the current known projects; and also due to some yet unveiled works.

An old bug in preparser was fixed and some people's builtin commands were set off. "set builtin on" will fix that.

Dewberry has been granted a 7-day vacation to think about how making rl threats against wizards isn't funny. Re: "help politeness" at least.

Kawasa, Venkelos and Bazil were removed.

HC Bat, Bat's web pages and wiz shell will be down for some time because of machine maintenance. Everything should be up and running tomorrow afternoon at latest.

BatMUD will be unavailable for a short time on Wednesday, 11th of January 2006 starting at about 22:00 hours EET (10 p.m.) This is an ISP based maintenance procedure and should take no longer than 30 minutes.

A new survey was posted on http://www.bat.org/ about BatMUD Las Vegas Convention 2006!! Please answer the poll with your opinion only if you are seriously considering of attending. There is no "timetable of events" for the convention in existence yet, though it will most likely consist relaxed activities together amongst a larger meet.

Database maintenance today at 17.00 EET (will cause downtime for both batmud and hcbat).