[X] My Assistant

[djellison]

I've tried to get some sort of clever browser thing going, but failed, as backup, some of you may remember the old #space chat room that was at


irc://chat.freenode.net/#space

I've found it a bit...umm....noisey at times. Sometimes great, sometimes a bit "WHY DON'T TEY USE TEH COLOR CAMERA5" if you get my drift.


So - I'll only announce it here - try irc://chat.freenode.net/#umsf tonight, I'll try and stay in there from about 1900, and us lot can have a chinwag about the MOI event as it happens

I use www.mirc.com to get 'in', but other irc clients are around - http://www.irchelp.org/ might help.

In the future - I want to have a java based IRC client within the UMSF domain so that we can just go to a page, put in a name, and be chatting - but for now, hopefully a couple of you will make it in there tonight.

Doug

[dvandorn]

I have visited a number of websites which feature their own chat systems. They usually provide a java applet-based chat client that loads via a webpage.

However, I would imagine that this would require more support (and possibly bandwidth) from Doug's provider than he is currently paying for. If they can support it at all.

But, for a "pure" UMSF chat experience, that would be a marvelous thing. And since you'd have to be a registered member to log into such a chat function, that would tend to keep the salt-of-the-Earth types (you know -- morons) from ruining the signal-to-noise ratio...

-the other Doug