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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:27:14 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> 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.
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.
> 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?
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> 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.
While I enjoy the fast posting, I probably wouldn't use a chat room as I can't
constantly look at the screen. And I wouldn't want to miss stuff when I was
away.
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