On the fateful first of April, 2002, the following fearsome message
appeared on M*U*S*H's usual port:
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HAHAHA! Not today! If you want to visit M*U*S*H you'll have to prove
your worthiness and decode its location from this clue:

0011111110011000000
0000011000001111100

0110000011011000011
0001111000011000110

0000000011011000011
0000011000110000011

0011111110011000011
0000011000110000011

0110000000011111111
1000011000110000011

0110000000000000011
0000011000011000110

0111111111000000011
0001111110001111100

(Important note: the M*U*S*H server detects portscanners and firewalls
them off, so scanning for the MUSH port is ill-advised. The port for
M*U*S*H is definitely a higher number than 1024.)

Hint #1: No math is required. 0 and 1 could just as well be "x" and "@"
Hint #2: (Implict in the reformatting of the clue...)
Hint #3: Having trouble? Join the line.
Another hint will be posted here later in the day.
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The true port was found by, as hint #3 suggests, joining the pairs of
lines, then eliminating the spaces between them. This yielded:

00111111100110000000000011000001111100
01100000110110000110001111000011000110
00000000110110000110000011000110000011
00111111100110000110000011000110000011
01100000000111111111000011000110000011
01100000000000000110000011000011000110
01111111110000000110001111110001111100

Which, looked at as ASCII art, reads "2410", the port on which M*U*S*H
was to be found. Javelin, upon returning M*U*S*H to the proper port
around 7:30 PM CST, also made a bbpost reading:

scoob is to be commended for being the first player to find M*U*S*H
under the new port (2410), which was encoded by being written in big
ascii art letters using only 0 and 1 as symbols, and then split into
19-character lines. scoob required only the first of the hints (No math
is required. 0 and 1 could just as well be "x" and "@")