On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, B. Bogart wrote:
I will not be in the lab on that day, and somhow I think only You, Miller and I would have access to it... Patrick Pagano wrote:
how about on the access grid instead?
Right. The Access Grid is not particularly accessible. It's a high-tech high-cost solution reserved to some universities and some research centres.
IRC, on the other hand, is a low-bandwidth protocol invented in 1988, standardized by IETF, and supported by hundreds of programs on many
OSes and which can run on a 9600 bps modem if that's all one has.Text-based meetings also have several advantages over audio-based meetings, such that several conversations can happen at once and so
it's easy to take your time saying something without disturbing anyone. With text, no-one is fighting for the microphone.
But that can also be a disadvantage. It often becomes very hard to
follow a thread of discussion and it becomes fragmented. Moderation is
often very helpful in meetings. But I think for this purpose, an IRC
meeting will be OK.
.hc
"Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic.
It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and
expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war on
terrorism."
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retired U.S. Army general, William Odom