[ILUG] JUST NOT PRACTICAL

[Smith, Graham - Computing Technician]

I'm sure somebody could dig out a nice newbie friendly 
web based java irc client.... 

I think irc would be more complementary rather than a 
replacement for this list.

G.
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 Graham Smith,
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 Department of Computing,
 Institute of Technology,
 Tallaght, Dublin 24
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronan Cunniffe [mailto:ronan at cunniffe.net]
Sent: 23 April 2002 19:19
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] JUST NOT PRACTICAL


Quoting AJ McKee <aj at nevermindthebollox.com>:

<snip> 
> But this should not mean that we neglect the list either. Remembering the
ICT
> Expo a big selling point of Linux was the availability of the 
> list and its friendleness. 

Let me second that!  I'm on home dial-up, which is why anything I ever post
(all
of, ooh, 5 things so far....) is usually done waaay post 6 pm.  If
everything
goes to irc, I'm locked out.

I would also like to hoist (oh yes! :-) the old bleat of "it'll discourage
newbies!" if the principal interaction is real-time.  They may not know
about
IRC, they may be on dial-up, they may have to look up "gcc" in the
dictionary....
Barriers to entry, and all that.

Ronan C.


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