Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Jaszewski <ab975-AT-main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
Subject: Internet Chat Relay: A Forum?



	I was wondering...

	Some here have said (more or less?) that the nature of this list
limits communication of a sort which is better served by face-to-face
meetings, or even old-fashioned letters.  The way I see it, whatever the
limitations of this Internet list, it's still _far_ superior to isolated
polemics which no-one but the few participants would be party to -- unless
the letters were assembled and published. Even then... 

	Consider this one tho':  how about the ideer of using Internet
Chat Relay (ICR) at some time (maybe _all_ the time?  :) for that
'realtime' feeling??  I'm sure that the technical obstacles are low enuff
to enable many here to agree to get together evenings and slug it out in
hot (electron) type...

	I've even fantasized about our using Internet video in order to
_see_ each other! Consider the difference from our present situation, if
we could actually SEE who we've been 'arguing' with..! (Right now, of
course, we could always exchange GIFs of each other...)

	It's not out of the realm of possibility -- even in the _near_
future.





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