17 Aug
2001
17 Aug
'01
10:04 a.m.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Bryan Pope wrote:
I can see your point in using mailing lists to get information... For me
chatting online was more to meet people online, talk and hang out.
Bryan
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.