Re: #WWW on IRC

Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 11:29:08 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
Message-id: <199306242329.AA15448@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-reply-to: Lou Montulli's message <9306242307.AA14757@stat1.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re: #WWW on IRC
Lou Montulli writes:

> NO No No No NO!  Sub-division of the list maybe, but IRC NEVER!

Hmm, ircaphobe? :)

> Couldn't we come up with a Web based solution for this?  After all
> we are writing Web clients! 

It would require a PUT method, and possibly authorisation, both of
which are lacking at the moment :)

> -BTW don't you think that the time differences between our continents
> might be a problem for live discussions.  Oh yeah, I forgot, developers 
> work 24 hours a day, who has time to sleep :-)

Not everyone needs to be on at the same time for informal discussions
-- for instance, your question about WAIS could have been answered by
me, likewise my query about the 2.06 distribution could have been
answered by saying ``fool, it was *fixed* in the 2.06 distribution''
:-).  Some things, net face-to-face would be nice for.

Nat.