RE: Is the scala list getting too busy?

+1 to all. If the discussion went to IRC, I'd be out of it completely.
(Let's not forget that some of us are on the western side of the Atlantic,
after all, and thus in a completely different category of time zone. ;-) )

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tuncer Ayaz [mailto:tuncer.ayaz@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:40 AM
> To: scala Mailingliste
> Subject: Re: Is the scala list getting too busy?
> 
> On 1/29/07, Tony Morris <tmorris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > G'day Martin,
> > I think your argument is extremely valid and in fact,
> > furthers supports the proposition that we should use IRC,
> > which is real-time collaboration and can easily and quickly
> > address most of the trivial queries quite easily.
> >
> > 20 more days until we can take channel ownership, but in
> > the meantime, use the ##scala (TWO hashes) channel on the
> > freenode network.
> > irc://irc.freenode.net/##scala
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> my 3 cents:
> 
> I like the idea of an IRC channel but it's not a
> replacement for a mailing list. The kind of discussions
> you have on a mailing list are different in length and
> sometimes also content.
> 
> Email is already asynchronous and allows people from
> different timezones to discuss without having to be online
> at the same time. You might achieve some of that with
> letting your IRC client or a bot run indefinitely waiting
> for answer or post a question, log out, and try to find
> an answer in the channel logs published on a website later
> on. It might even be possible to help first-time users with
> an IRC bot which answers trivial or frequently asked
> questions.
> 
> Voice chat accompanied by a shared collaborative text
> editor or shared text chat view looks to me like another
> efficient and also cheap discussion method from all the
> options we have right now. Don't forget that you can
> create conference calls (like IRC channels) to discuss
> in a group. These voice/text channels can be temporary
> or permanent. Voice chat might of course not be preferred
> or possible due to technical/personal reasons for everybody.
> Therefore it's just another option which when it can be used
> allows pretty efficient discussions due to voice being a
> powerful medium and the ability to express more than with
> pure text messages.
> 
> PS: I tried hard but if my post reads like I dislike IRC
> believe me I don't. Text messages make it harder to express
> feelings/opinions but make it easy to let your reply look
> like it's 'harsh'.
> 
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