Peter Cox Posted July 17, 2004 Posted July 17, 2004 Dear all, I am a recent convert to MSN (in fact I am now online to my nephew 150 miles away and my sister 3000 miles away...fantastic). I know that lots of us have the "MSN" logo on our profile, but has anyone used it to do anything similar to the boardroom (only maybe on a smaller scale)? Oh, I know that MSN is transient and that whatever you say on here can be used against you when you're rich and famous...I'm just interested. Quote
Blatman Posted July 18, 2004 Posted July 18, 2004 It has been discussed here before. Have a search for chat, 'cos I'm too lazy to do it meself right now... Quote
v7slr Posted July 18, 2004 Posted July 18, 2004 MSN doesn't have chat rooms any more. You can only communicate with people in your address list, and nothing stops people from communicating with you direct, rather than joining a conversation already in progress. On the MSN chat room site: Why has MSN done this? The increase in abuse of the Internet, such as the massive growth of spam and the increase in unsolicited and inappropriate material, particularly with regards to children, has led us to this decision. Mind you, there are enough Se7ens-oriented sites at the moment with this one, The Se7ens List, Seven Torque, Pistonheads and BlatChat. I think I'm a member of them all. Quote
v7slr Posted July 18, 2004 Posted July 18, 2004 Haven't done Blatman's search but I have just been looking at MSN Groups. Essentially it appears that you can set up a discussion forum which allows you to read and respond either on the web or via email. It's not "live" chat as you were asking about. I was going to set one up, as an experiment, until I realised it's little more than than a mail list. Oh well... Quote
Peter Cox Posted July 18, 2004 Author Posted July 18, 2004 Nige, I didn't realise they weren't much better than a mailing list. It's just that, having had a real-time group conversation with my mum and dad, nephew, sister, all in different places (some outside the UK) it seemed like a pretty cool tool (obvious caveat that nothings kept for posterity). WRT your comment about belonging to 'em all...you're just an internet junky matey How's V7 these days..still tinkering? Quote
Persil Posted July 18, 2004 Posted July 18, 2004 I offered an IRC (internet relay chat) server for WSCC but most people were not interested so it was never done . Its similiar to the live feel of MSN .. If there is interest then i can still do it ...but for the sake of 4-5 members i dunno if it would be worth it Persil Quote
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