Re: [atlarge-discuss] Open real-time panel meetings

["Micheal Sherrill" <micheal@beethoven.com>]

Hello Mark:

Three hundred baud is not the problem.  International time zones is the problem.  And multiple venues is the problem.  Why not keep it simple and user friendly?  You are inserting another, albeit original, way to communicate.  If we have gone past IRC why do we need to scramble to learn the old way?

Email, please.  It works globally.

Regards,


Micheal Sherrill


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "MPoole" <urgen@charter.net>
Date:  Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:05:53 -0700

Oh boy, I'm dating myself here, by responding to email that is beginning to
collect dust.

If there was someone that needed an SMTP interface to IRC we would be more
than happy to bend as far as possible to make it work, right?  Isn't that
the point?  Right tool for the job.  If it doesn't exist, invent it.  This
is the Internet after all.

I can understand a concern for doing business outside of public venue but
that only goes back to addressing the issue that is resisting definition,
i.e. membership.  Bootstrapping requires a minimum set of components be in
place at the time of initialization.  We need some volunteers to help
explore that minimum set and I was just suggesting a free and easy way to
establish that definition of participation as "join the channel and you are
in."  If you still want to help but can't arrive at that level of
contribution or are just simply restricted by time zone centric hurdles then
we'll work around it.

The digital divide will create the gap that stops the vehicle, is it the gap
or the vehicle that is the focus?  If the vehicle can help close the gap
then there isn't any problem.  Email creates as many gaps as it closes just
saying that it is one of the most common methods of exchange to date only
describes the limits of the tools at hand not the capacity of the exchange.
IRC works great at 300 baud.

MPoole
sorry for not signing my last post.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abel Wisman" <abel@able-towers.com>
To: "'Atlarge Discuss List'" <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Open real-time panel meetings


> I agree with these limitations immediately, it should not be seen as the
> end all solution, just an add-on and a tool that might ease panel
> members talking in real time. If such a meeting would every be official
> I am sure official minutes would be posted to the website.
>
> Abel
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Sherwood [mailto:sherwood@islands.vi]
> > Sent: 01 June 2003 18:47
> > To: Hugh Blair; 'Atlarge Discuss List'
> > Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Open real-time panel meetings
> >
> >
> > All Panel members and contributors:
> >
> > Please, please recognize that we aspire to include and
> > represent a global membership.  Please, therefore, also
> > recognize that bandwidth and online time are not universally
> > available or universally affordable.  This discuss list,
> > and/or other access to text archives must be available to
> > those who cannot readily use web based fora.  Email is
> > universal and must remain the primary communication tool for
> > this organization.
> >
> > Thank you, Ron Sherwood
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hugh Blair" <hblair@hotfootmail.com>
> > To: "'Atlarge Discuss List'" <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 11:09 AM
> > Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Open real-time panel meetings
> >
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Abel Wisman
> > > >
> > > > In order to facilitate the topic of this mail, I suggest
> > I set up a
> > > > dedicated ircd server for the icannatlarge.org under
> > > > irc.icannatlarge.org.
> > >
> > > IRC is not as accessable as a mail list. At least not for me. I can
> > > receive email, redirect email anywhere needed, but actual
> > web access
> > > is not always available. If you set up an IRC channel,
> > unfortunately I
> > > won't be attending.
> > >
> > > Hugh


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