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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:47:22 GMT
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sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:
> > Would it be possible to start a chat system on LUGNet? I originally thought
> > mine would be successful (No idea why), but after 30 hours, it has 1 member
> > and only 17 hits. So, this led me to this post about a chat system on
> > LUGNet. I think that it would be far more successful than anything anybody
> > else has come up with.
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> Speaking only for myself, I would be no more likely to go to a chat on
> LUGnet than elsewhere. IRC, etc are not my style. IF I have very good
> reason, I will go to a MUSH to talk. But mostly, I'm simply not
> on-line long enough to make sitting around just to talk worth it --
> especially when I can send messages to news groups and have other
> people answer them when it is convenient to THEM.
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> On occasion, for a scheduled meeting about a topic I am very
> interested in, I might go to a chat. That's about it.
Me neither... But there are quite a few people who enjoy chat, I gather.
I'd been wondering the same thing as Greg since the first day we started the
testing in August -- when we noticed how "instantly" newly posted articles
appeared. It's not real-time chat by any stretch of the imagination, but it's
about halfway between IRC and Usenet.
I wonder what a special group named lugnet.chat would be like if articles
were expired from it very quickly. Worth setting up as an experiment?
Threaded chat, hmm. :)
Refreshes of article listings aren't automatic in all newsreaders (they are in
'trn' at least, which is pretty cool!) but a manual refresh might not be all
that painful with some readers...hmm...hmm.
--Todd
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| (...) Oh! You thought he was asking for a lugnet.chat group... I thought he was asking for an IRC type real-time set up here. How would this group be different from other newsgroups? HOW fast would articles expire? I have to manually ask for new (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) With my config, and I have very little idea of what it is as I do this at work, it's much faster Usenet. That's one of the things I really like about lugnet. (...) While I enjoy the fast posting, I probably wouldn't use a chat room as I can't (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Speaking only for myself, I would be no more likely to go to a chat on LUGnet than elsewhere. IRC, etc are not my style. IF I have very good reason, I will go to a MUSH to talk. But mostly, I'm simply not on-line long enough to make sitting (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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