Re: RE: Come over to ExI-Community chat! We're there now

From: animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 19:21:58 MST


2002.02.02 17:07:41, "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:

>A few people have noted this as well. I can only get it working in one of
>my nine browsers. The chat is built into Yahoo, and I don't have much
>insight into how it works inside.

Which browser is it working in for you? I use Opera, and the message it gave me said to
download a new version of Netscape if you see the error message.

>I used to be much more active on IRC. The problem is that it doesn't spread
>across all servers very well. There are literally hundreds of different IRC
>networks, and a channel on one can't see messages from a similarly named
>channel on another. I have tried to meet people on IRC, and have had to
>search through dozens of channels with the same name until I found the
>correct one. I don't think anybody has chatting working really well yet.

That's true. But we could still set up a channel that would be the official ExI chan. List it
on the Yahoo site and maybe even the ExI homepage, saying "This is where you go if
you want to chat!"

>We will have to find a better alternative if a lot of people can't use
>Yahoo's chat.

Yeah. I wonder if I can get to it through Yahoo messenger....

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                        some with smiles, some with patient hands.
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