An excellent game. Along with telehack (http://telehack.com/), oldusenet (http://olduse.net/), and now this, semi-accurate emulation of the 80's online really seems to be catching on lately.
(disclaimer: I did olduse.net)
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I liked how the business model of LORD was to get you to pay so you could do it with Violet.
The very first thing I looked for was Trade Wars.
While LORD was popular, I always enjoyed a game run on an Amiga BBS called "Hack & Slash". Even has a modern Linux port. http://robert.hurst-ri.us/games/rpgd/