Glue Other Users and Chatterbox!

I know everyone is probably sick and tired of reading about chatterbox improovement requests, but this one struck me as being a nice one.

This morning when I logged on there were like 18 monks hanging around, and I thought, "What if the chatterbox and the other users nodelets merged?" I know the idea must of been hanging around there somewhere, but this is how I see it happening:

the list of available users comes up in the select box (maybe even multiple select?)
the last person to page you gets selected
messages appear in the middle of the nodelet
personal messages are bolded
public messages are italicized
info goes to, well, info!
...and guess what talk does?

I haven't seen the chatterbox code yet, but I suppose it would be easy to replace /msg user with user=person&msg=blah blah blah. What do you all think?

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl

# Trust no1!

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RE: Glue Other Users and Chatterbox! by BBQ (Curate) on May 12, 2000 at 05:04 UTC
Hey vroom! I noticed you GIFed my chatterbox html. What there some problem with the HTML text? (or perhaps some obscure security threat with the form itself?) Just curious... #!/home/bbq/bin/perl # Trust no1!	[reply]
RE: RE: Glue Other Users and Chatterbox! by perlmonkey (Hermit) on May 12, 2000 at 07:10 UTC
I think your FORM tags were screwing up the normal FORM tags for the voting, so I could not vote on this thread. Now that he gif'ed it I can give this thread a vote.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Glue Other Users and Chatterbox! by BBQ (Curate) on May 12, 2000 at 20:00 UTC
That's odd! I still have the HTML. (I saved it so I could post it when I got home). I wonder what could've been wrong...	[reply]
RE: Glue Other Users and Chatterbox! by perlmonkey (Hermit) on May 11, 2000 at 05:41 UTC
I dont know that it is really necessary but, it looks like a fairly clean solutions to me. It might become necessary as the crowd here grows. Maybe allow multiple selections in the box to talk to a couple of people at once. Also the private messages should probably still be semi-permanent (via the little check box) to make sure the user gets the message.	[reply]
RE: RE: Glue Other Users and Chatterbox! by BBQ (Curate) on May 11, 2000 at 08:14 UTC
> private messages should probably still be semi-permanent (via the little check box) The friendliest way I thought of solving that was by selecting the user (if s/he isn't already) and submitting an empty talk. It saves you having to check the box(es), and lets you flow through a conversation more naturally, me thinks...	[reply]