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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:53:29PM -0500, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
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> DianaDuncan> I have to wonder if having an INW IRC channel
> MichaelThomas> Things might change around, but I think that it's 
> DianaDuncan> will reduce the traffic on the list? 
> MichaelThomas> really a different kind of conversation. We have 
> DianaDuncan> Can I just say that IRC is too much fun? 
> MichaelThomas> gatherings, we have email discussion, we have IRC. For
> MichaelThomas> instance, after a morning of tossing around web site 
> DianaDuncan> I'm getting to have a conversation with multiple
> MichaelThomas> ideas on IRC, I see that IRC is a lot looser and causal.
> MichaelThomas> But email discussions can be more easily transformed
> DianaDuncan> people in the brief quiet of Caelan's nap. 
> MichaelThomas> into to documentation, design specs, etc.
> MichaelThomas> We should put some kind of recorder on IRC so that we
> MichaelThomas> cure cancer over there we can have it captured.
> DianaDuncan> Aaaah.
 
I doubt it will cut down on list discussions. Personally, I've never
really understood the appeal of irc.

curmudgeonly yours,
Steve

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