Re: Channelling the CB

Greetings all,
In thinking about this I would suggest utilizing /msg more frequently for those who have specific questions and those willing to answer. This way a log of the conversation would be available to those involved. The only possible extensions to the current system I could see would be allowing /msg's to be addressed to multiple users at once (a pseudo-channel without getting our gracious host ticked off) and displaying /msg's sent as well as received.

-InjunJoel

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo

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Re^2: Channelling the CB by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 29, 2005 at 21:12 UTC
Oh please no. /msgs scale poorly in comparison to chatter when it comes to the load on people being asked questions. If you ask something in chatter, everyone watching has an opportunity to answer while when you /msg, only that one person can respond. This is an "Eat flaming death!" sort of idea for me. Some people already have too much of this happen and it is a problem that should not be encouraged.	[reply]
Re^3: Channelling the CB (group /msg) by tye (Sage) on Apr 29, 2005 at 22:07 UTC
And we've done group /msg boxes and they suck quite a bit. injunjoel, we already have a system for persistent public conversations and it is nodes and replies. I see extremely little advantage to some system like "/msg" but persistent and shared compared to just posting nodes. And I see lots of advantages to the existing node system over shared /msgs. - tye	[reply]