DaMOO is, and always will be, a work in progress, a growing community, with changing needs. We knew when started DaMOO the majority of new people would be first time MOOers. We also knew that DaMOO would change and grow as teachers became increasingly adept MOOers and started bringing their classes onMOO. Our help files evolve as the need arises. We have a help cabinet inMOO that is easily accessed by the web so that people can read the help and print it out. Since new MOOers usually connect through raw telnet, having a print out can save hours of aggravation and frustration. If you can set up your class or lab with a client, do so. Knowing how to read MOOmail is as essential as knowing how to read email. Without this skill, MOOers cannot access the MOO *lists which are the a-synchronic heartbeat of the MOO. MOOmail and *lists can be accessed from the web as well as inMOO. However, we have found once the hurdle of learning to use the inMOO editor has been jumped, MOOfolk can transfer that skill to the other inMOO editors for notes and verbs. Using MOO clients and/or local editing can solve many of the MOO-editor headache syndrome (let's face it, the MOO editors suck). However, we have found that providing links to various MOO clients is not particularly helpful, at least intitially. Instructions for the care and feeding of the different clients vary as greatly as user levels of expertise, which is to say, user experise will run the gamut from never touched a keyboard to righteous hackers. The basic ability to @send and @read MOOmail in the MOO editor, sucky or not, enables one to communicate blah blah blah

As it light flickers on the mole hole walls, you ponder your options...
Either you can go back to the gardens, check out this DaMOO, maybe even the DaMOO Help Cabinet, or look around the tunnels some more.