Most chatterbox clients are broken right now, because they had hardcoded addresses, and the DNS has not propagated properly with the new perlmonks address.

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Been there, done that, wrote the resume.

By the way, the first sentence of your request was valid, and had it not already been done and easy to find I would have given you a ++ vote. But its been done, and entering "Java Chatterbox" in the search bar would have found it. Unfortunately the terse-ness of your post, and the high-handedness of the second line (combined with the ignorance in the first line) leaves me with no choice but to -- your post. I was not alone. Don't take this the wrong way, instead learn and grow from it. Next time use words like "please" and "I really did do a search for this, but couldn't find it. Is there such a thing? Could there be?"

The statement that follows my posts is my signature, and is automatically inserted into anything that I write.

I was responding to a different part of the Monestary which asked for my input about the Monestary. I was under the impression that this was going to the maintainers of the Monestary, not to its general public. This is why it is worded so tersely...it is a single phrase response to a question.

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Some reasons for not wanting it, not all of which apply to me:
Greatly increasing traffic for refreshes (which may trigger alarms to the proxy administrator for those using PM as a resource at work or otherwise raise questions.)
Low bandwidth connection getting hogged by constant refreshes.
May people keep Java & Javascripts off for security reasons.

It just doesn't seem to be a win. If you want the instant refreshes, there are clients available. If you don't, use it like it is now. No need to force everyone into the same mold.

That being said, in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, an optional applet that could be configured per user would just increase the options for those who want it. I still urge you to look at the clients, though.

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