I thought about recommending this, since we did this on IFSJA and tried this on Bimmernut, but it seems like not enough people would be on it at one time... unless we set up a once a week meet on there or something. Just an idea.
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, a real time BBS style of communication.
IRC is more a protocol, and you can use whatever client you like to access the host (e.g. mIRC is a client)
I usually idle in a couple IRC chats with friends or for various tech subjects related to whatever I'm doing at the time. It could be cool, although it does sort of open the floodgates for idiots who'd rather ask questions than search.
Jeremy wrote:IRC predates AOL by a significant amount of time. I'm a bit surprised to hear it's still in use.
Matt sums up the chat session issue pretty well.
Frighteningly, I agree with him. OTOH, maybe we're reaching the saturation point for new information about the same old cars. When is the last time we generated some really NEW widely usable information? Have we already covered everything? Are we now merely the Keepers and Guardians of The Sum of All E28 Knowledge; our only function to tell Da Noobs, "Spell correctly, Search, and Ye Shall Find"?
Of course, if you want to chat, there's always facebook's new Groups function. You can even make it a secret group! We could have initiations, a secret handshake, and everything!
Interestingly enough, we do have an E28 Facebook group (which in case you forgot, you're already a member of, btw). It has more of an international vibe than this forum does, too. At 983 members, it's got a decent following.
Why not use some thing like Ventrillo also ?. or some other type of voice communication program. just a suggestion. never know tho might have people yelling at each other about cars all day.
quasi wrote:Why not use some thing like Ventrillo also ?. or some other type of voice communication program. just a suggestion. never know tho might have people yelling at each other about cars all day.
If we were playing Counter Strike, Vent would make sense.
Jeremy wrote:Interestingly enough, we do have an E28 Facebook group (which in case you forgot, you're already a member of, btw). It has more of an international vibe than this forum does, too. At 983 members, it's got a decent following.
it sounds like an AOL chat room to me. I assume they still have those. I haven't used one in at least 8 or 10 years though.