Re: Aim or ICQ, other messengers?

From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 17:52:58 MST

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    I chat with some friends using msn or yahoo, but I do not recommend them as
    a way of having intellectual discussions. They are better for gossip and
    trivia, in my experience. They are supposedly good for cybersex as well, but
    I don't have the benefit of that experience. :)

    A good e-mail is likely to have more meat than anything you can do with a
    chat program, where your interlocutor will get frustrated if you type more
    than a few lines at a time.

    Russ B

    http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellblackford/

    >From: "Jef Allbright" <jef@jefallbright.net>
    >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
    >To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    >Subject: Re: Aim or ICQ, other messengers? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:08:49
    >-0800
    >
    >Some of us have found that emailing with a member of the list directly can
    >be very effective, and in many cases helps improve the list signal to
    >noise.
    >Something to consider.
    >
    >Once direct contact has been made, people may choose to allow direct access
    >via IM. I use it every day, but limit access only to people I already
    >know.
    >
    >AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ are very popular but don't inter-operate with each
    >other. There's also Jabber which is trying to promote its own open
    >standard, and there are others, such as Trillian, that attempt to provide a
    >common front end to access more than one service. A newcomer that I'm
    >watching is VeriChat, that attempts to provide full-time presence on
    >multiple IM services with client being on your mobile phone or wireless
    >PDA.
    >
    >- Jef
    >
    >Nathanael Allison wrote:
    > > It would be great if I could get a few peoples opinions on things. I
    > > don't want to send a dozen messeges over like 5 days just to find out
    > > something that would take 5 minutes messageing. Plus, I don't seem to
    > > get very many replies to questions I ask. Your time and wisdom would
    > > not be wasted. Thanks, Nate
    > >
    > > (Lee, if you enjoy shooting down peoples wrong opinions than I'm sure
    > > you'll have fun chatting with me)

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