William and all,
Yes William, IRC has some very good advantages, to be sure. I
personally prefer DCC for instance for sending large files to
FTP for instance. Have you considered though how great an
advantage Internet video conferencing is for meetings and
such? Try it you will like it! >;)
William X. Walsh wrote:
> Monday, August 23, 1999, 7:51:20 AM, Diane Cabell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The Net is in awfully early days of its use outside of academic and largely
> > US/English language settings. You seem to be saying that what was good enough
> > for the Wright Brothers is good enough for today's air traveller. I don't buy
> > it, and I find e-mail far less efficient a means of communication than
> > face-to-face meetings.
>
> I won't deny that email has its disadvantages, but so do face-to-face
> meetings.
>
> However, there are other mediums. For the last 4 years I have had to
> conduct a significant portion of the collaborative work I do over IRC,
> in other to coordinate with whomever else was working with me on
> whatever project. This included working with people from both near
> and far time zones, such as Australia, Hong Kong, and even 10 miles
> away.
>
> At first, I will give you, it was quite awkward, but if people are
> going to be getting any work done at all over a medium like that, they
> learn how to work together with it. For a meeting you have the
> ability to moderate discussions, permitting one speaker at a time to
> be able to "talk," and there are various other means that can be used.
> The IRC Chat channel can even be password protected to prohibit
> unauthorized people from entering the meeting. Not to mention that IRC
> software is available on almost every single OS/hardware combination
> imaginable, and the server software is available on most of the
> popular OSs in use in both personal and business circles, and is
> available for free (source code also) for most of these platforms.
>
> I say that online options have not been properly considered or
> addressed, and that there is a good amount of room in which online
> participation could be made to work.
>
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