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Subject: Re: Chat
From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To: Brendan <jgrossma@bigpond.net.au>
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On 23 Jun 2001 22:42:32 +1000, Brendan wrote:

> this is for all the replies i got, I still think it would be a good
> idea - it wont cost anything, it wouldn't take long to set up plus it
> provides an alternative for people who don't know what IRC is/or how
> to use an IRC client etc etc. It would just be a java chat that you
> can also access using an IRC client aswell, not just a help channel
> but also a room  for discussion and ideas etc. Just a link to it from
> the home page and i can give you the code to paste in the html source
> so it still has the same layout as the pages and also the files can be
> sent through e-mail.

Please refrain from using HTML on this list. It doesn't display or quote
properly in many non-Microsft email clients. See Greg Lehey's document
on the prefered ways of posting to FreeBSD Questions,
http://www.lemis.com/questions.html

Java isn't supported by all browsers. Futhermore, one couldn't
participate in a discussion from a command prompt using <insert favorite
console-mode MUA here>.

For those that don't know what IRC is, there is plenty of information on
the web that explains it. For those that don't know how to work a
client, there is plenty of documentation from vendors explaining their
client.

Bottom line is that a web-based chat client wouldn't work for a project
the size of FreeBSD. It's hard to organise discussions into topics --
something provided by email in the form of threads.

As a footnote, your offer of source code for a Java chat room is noble,
but rest assured that there is enough talent and skill in on this list
alone, to build one from scratch, not to mention the trivial task of
installing it.

   - andrew

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