[gnome-mud] telnet failure?

[David Fallon <davef d2 com>]

Hi, I just found gnome-mud, and tried it out with a tradewars game I'm
playing. I can telnet to it fine from the console, but when I try w/
gnome-mud, I get:

*** Making connection to foo.bar.com, port 23.
*** Trying x.x.x.x port 23...
*** Connection established.
Failed to detect protocol.  Expected Telnet...*** Connection closed.

while the commandline gives me:
davef rake-l:tmp 109 > telnet foo.bar.com
Trying x.x.x.x...
Connected to foo.bar.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Telnet connection detected.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
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I'm fairly sure it's a tradewars game server specific thing, but I was
wondering if anyone's heard of this before, and have any ideas on how to
debug it or otherwise resolve the issue.

dave