Hi Dave, Am 29.03.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Dave F: > Because IRC works in real time. Contributors have to be in the same time > zone (or stay up really late/ get up really early). It's biased towards > densely populated zones ie Northern Europe or East coast if North America.
You will face this problem with every type of communication, even email. You will have a slower conversation if the other contributors live 9 hours off your local time. > As it has no record facility it turns into the equivalent of little > groups huddling away secretively in the corner of the room to have a > whispered conversation; something that only teenage girls usually do. Do really want to read the full log of a chat room? Do you yourself really do that? Reading the archive of a mailing list gets time-consuming if there are many postings. But you have email subjects and threading at a mailing list archive which is not available at a Slack/IRC/XMPP channel. Note that people write emails slower than a chat messages and therefore the text is well thought out (I hope, sometimes this is not true) and therefore easier to read. Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists)
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