I think one could enhance the usefulness of this mailing list if occasionally real time meetings would be held on line at specified dates and times ;) Using free software like mIRC (www.mirc.com) or ICQ (www.mirabilis.com) several people can join in one session of real time chat over the net . Alexei Pace ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Aubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim Tallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Sent: April 07, 1999 02:07 Subject: Re: What a great list.
> I was just saying the same thing to my wife yesterday... trying to tell her > about how amazing it is to be able to read the most fascinating and erudite > postings from people in Poland (Slawek), Brazil (Fernando), the Netherlands > (Fer) the UK (several of you)...in approximately real time. The Internet > really does draw together people from around the world to pool their > knowledge and insights. So after my little linguistic salvo, which was > meant to be light-hearted rather than censorious, I will drop back into > lurk-mode and enjoy the erudition of my gnomonic superiors. > > At 08:41 AM 4/6/99 -0400, Jim Tallman wrote: > >Hello all, > > > > I never cease to be impressed with the international character and > >intellectual content of this list. >