Re: Come over to ExI-Community chat! We're there now

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 18:17:05 MST


Hey all, I'm there, but nobody is replying...

Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> animated silicon love doll wrote,
> > I tried, and it didn't work.
>
> A few people have noted this as well. I can only get it working in one of
> my nine browsers. The chat is built into Yahoo, and I don't have much
> insight into how it works inside.
>
> > Why don't we start an IRC channel?
>
> I used to be much more active on IRC. The problem is that it doesn't spread
> across all servers very well. There are literally hundreds of different IRC
> networks, and a channel on one can't see messages from a similarly named
> channel on another. I have tried to meet people on IRC, and have had to
> search through dozens of channels with the same name until I found the
> correct one. I don't think anybody has chatting working really well yet.
>
> We will have to find a better alternative if a lot of people can't use
> Yahoo's chat.
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
> Principal Security Consultant, Newstaff Inc. <www.Newstaff.com>
> Board of Directors, Extropy Institute <www.Extropy.org>
> Cofounder, Pro-Act <www.ProgressAction.org>



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