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From: "Europa Club Membership Secretary" <europa-club@rowil.clara.net>
Subject: Re: Live Europa Chat
>
> >I've been thinking it would be nice if the Europa building community
could
> >get together live once a month or so and have a live "Chat room"
>
> I hope this doesn't sound defeatist or NIH after the great
> face-to-face chats we have had at Cranfield (yes, I'm back now after
> helping the tear-down crew last night and today), but my first
> reaction is "why?".
>
> For me, the great feature of e-mail and e-mail lists is that I don't
> have to be at the Mac at any given time, I can pick up the day's
> traffic whenever it suits me (like the 293 messages which accumulated
> for me while I was away at the Rally).
>
> I'm open to explanations of the advantages of live chat "rooms"
> compared with e-mail lists (when the latter work properly, of
> course!).
>
> I am not familiar with the workings of AOL instant messenger (as I
> couldn't see any point in having it, it took me ages to get rid of
> the pesky thing when it installed itself along with Netscape) so I'm
> not clear if the following points are obvious once it's been used.
>
> Would (or could) the "chat" in the "room" be echoed to the Europa Forum?
>
> Or would/could it be archived to Andrew Sarangan's list archive?
>
> Or is it the intention only to discuss trivia which would be
> guaranteed to be of no interest to anyone unable to "enter" the "chat
> room" at the specified time? I guess that might be the case, as
> anything needing an urgent answer is unlikely to be saved up for a
> week to be put to a (likely) much smaller group.
>
> If the above "automatic" methods of making the contents available to
> the wider community are not practicable, perhaps someone might
> volunteer to note and copy to the Forum any messages which could be
> of general interest. (As a minute-taker at too many meetings already,
> I apologise in advance for not doing it!)
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
>
>
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