On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Bryan Pope wrote:
> I remember when you could chat online (in my case, Compuserve) with
> intelligent people... Umm.. And you only got 20 hours a month. :(
It doesn't seem all that long ago that IRC was like that. Of course,
can it not be said that IRC and other forms of on-line chat are, to be
honest, a waste of time, and that mailing lists allow a group to
exchange more information in a more efficient manner? That is, people
can take their time composing messages and adding more relevant
info. to them, then one has to do is quickly scan over the e-mail
containing that info., so, information that may have taken an hour of
one's time to obtain via IRC can be obtained in a matter of minutes
via a mailing list. Ok, not "real time," but if one waits a while and
then reads one's e-mail.
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Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 09:55:28 BST