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Mining Company page on online communities
http://netculture.miningco.com/msub16.htm

Paper on Habitat, early graphical virtual world run by Lucas Arts
http://www.communities.com/company/papers/lessons.html

http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bkTheVirtualCommunity.html

Homepage of online communities author
http://www.rheingold.com/

Hompage of study by Stanford prof on online community of all-frosh dorm
http://www.stanford.edu/~holeton/wired-pages/wired-main.html

Stanford's use policy http://www.stanford.edu/group/dcg/docs/leland.usage.html

Symposium on online deviant behavior transcript from MediaMOO http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/MediaMOO/deviance-symposium-99.html

Newsgroup on MUDs rec.games.mud

Rules of Professional Gamers League http://www.pgl.com/rules

Homepage and Rules of WBS web-based chat
http://members.wbs.net and
http://members.wbs.net/wbs_help_system/rules.html

Homepage for new users of IRC
http://www.newircusers.com

Pavel Curtis's article on life in Lambda MOO ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/DIAC92.txt

Rape in Cyberspace article
ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/VillageVoice.txt

A History of the Great Renaming
http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename.html

A brief history of LambdaMOO
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/~smolin/lambda/

Pavel Curtis' announcement of the wizards' abdication of control
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/~smolin/lambda/laws_and_history/newdirection

Pavel Curtis' announcement that the wizards would be retaking control
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/~smolin/lambda/laws_and_history/anotherdirection

The Village Voice article describing a Rape In Cyberspace
ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/VillageVoice.txt

A paper on the influence of computers and online communities in our lives
ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/ethnography.txt

A paper covering the history of MUDs
ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/mudreport.txt

A presentation by Amy Borgstrom for the European Alliance for Community Networking Conference in Barcelona, July 1998.
http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~acenet/Barcelona_presentation.html

A paper by Markle/Arlen Communications entitled "Developing Community Resources on the Internet".
http://www.markle.org/Markle+Foundation.nsf/vwAllDocs/E597CFF63A79B9DD852566490072FDFB?OpenDocument

A study by Alaina Kanfer, Ph.D of the NCSA.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/alaina/com_online/

CopsOnline, the largest virtual community of police.
COPSONLINE Message Board

USACityLink, a comprehensive directory of geographical communities online.
http://www.usacitylink.com/

The Community Connector, another directory of online communities, geographic and otherwise.
http://www.si.umich.edu/Community/

A page by the Benton Foundation devoted to community networks.
http://www.benton.org/Cyber/cp-freenets.html

A bibliography and resource guide to community networks by Kim Gregson, a doctoral student at Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science.
http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~kgregson/main_menu.html

For information on the policies of an IRC network, see
http://www.castlenet.org/policies.html

Undernet also posts its acceptable use policy online
http://www.undernet.org/documents/aup.html

There is an entire site devoted to criticism of the DALnet network
http://www.dalnet.org