Re: #validator IRC channel

From: Gerald Oskoboiny (gerald@w3.org)
Date: Thu, Aug 23 2001

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    Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:04:18 -0400
    From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
    To: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-ID: <20010823170418.E2364@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: #validator IRC channel
    
    On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:13:39PM +0100, Lloyd Wood wrote:
    > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
    > 
    > > If you are interested in discussing the validator in realtime,
    > > please feel free to join us! I think we both find the real time
    > > chats quite a useful addition to email.
    > 
    > It's only a useful addition if you have both chat and email; if you
    > only have list email, the list is diminished as a result...
    
    Sorry, I'm not sure I follow.
    
    Eventually I would like for #validator to be logged online, like #rdfig
    is for the RDF interest group. http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/#irc
    
    > > (in fact, I have come to
    > > realize that I have inadvertently been using IRC as a replacement
    > > for email, and haven't been participating on this list very much;
    > > sorry, I'll try to participate here more.)
    > 
    > as this suggests.
    
    That's my fault; there's nothing inherently evil about communicating
    via both realtime and asynchronous protocols.
    
    > so, do you just paste diffs into your chat window, or what?
    
    yes, when appropriate/useful.
    
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