I would be one of these new players. I read an artical at MMORPG.com that was extremely well written and really brought back a flood of memories.
Making of EQ I believe someone in the comments made reference to Project 1999. I logged in shortly after. It has been 3 days and I have sucked 7 OTHER real life friends back in with me. Look for us, we will be the travel pack of nooblings.
Kopuz
Kobgag
Adonisdna
Chadwicke
Soporose
Dabinge
Scotchiebon
Gerhard - I assume....
And I just hit my old guilds forums and facebook pages. I am trying really hard to cause a spike in the servers population.