xor wrote: >> On November 4, 2008, xor wrote: >>> I just came up with the idea of renaming it to "Freetalk". >>> If nobody is against that I will do it today (wednesday). >> Oh great an IM system for freenet. > > I don't know of any IM system which has "talk" in it's name. > Besides: People might *always* confuse it with instant messaging, > no matter how good we chose the name.
Well there is Google talk which is an IM (well it's basically jabber with a colourful interface) Talk implies it's like a real conversation where you immediately get a respond, board, forum, use* refer to somthing the user (probably) already knows about and assumes they have no real time implication. >> Thats what freeTALK implies at least to me. > > Well forums are about talking to each others. > >> Maybe FreeMessage or freemess might be better? > > FreeMessage is to long. And for understanding why freemess is not > a good idea you should probably look up the word "mess" in your > favorite english-to-your-language book :) There may be people out there who understand irony but I agree that it is something we can't rely on. So the best name I see so far is the "freeboard" proposed by Michael Rogers regards Neo at NHNG -- Follow the blue rabbit - The Freenet Project - http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081107/1c6a877d/attachment.pgp>
