Had some problems with the chatroom link. Nobody has been able to get in the chatroom using the link that's there on the right. I would appreciate it if you could take the time to test it and let me know if it works and more importantly--what happens if it doesn't (please try and give me more info than just a "it don't work", heh.) Just leave a comment here please. Thanks.

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norseman here - chat seems to work . . .

but i seem to get no answers - maybe because of this?

[CGI154 John @noho] - did it log me on as ???

anyway - at least i can get to the board now without errors - so that seems to be AOK J

PS- how r u doin - everything ok w/ u?

    norseman here - here's a copy of

* CGI781 [~3fd15e69@kacked.com] has joined #kacked

* CGI781 John @noho

eh you all - trying again

r u there?

hal - r u there?

well - goodbye agin

what am i doin wrong here???

    It's working, we're just not staring at the screen awaiting your arrival. It's our chat clients that are sitting there not actually us. This is a recurring problem for people that enter the chatroom. They see someone's name there, type something, don't get an immediate response and then split. Being on IRC is kind of like email. You can have a chat without both people being present at the same time. You say hello and go wash your car, go to the bank, etc. By the time you get back it's possible that you might have a reply. It's also possible that the other person is off washing his car, going to the bank... or you could get lucky and they're sitting right there when you type something in. It's my opinion that they asyncronous nature of IRC chat is the hardest thing for people to get about it. They have a tendency to connect, say something and split without getting a reply. A few of my friends and family are starting to get it though--the only way it works is to connect and hang out.

Thanks for testing. I guess it's working again. I wonder what the problem was. I was just sitting down to repair it and the first thing I did as part of troubleshooting it was to try and get into chat by using the browser. But then, it worked...

    Now that I have a DSL, I could leave the chat connection on as you say, unlike when I had 56K connection.

I recall I had trouble keeping connection to IRC on via a 56K modem, since we have to address incoming/outgoing calls.

--sunil

norseman http://lubrichs.mine.nu it won't work with 56K - simple . . . unless ur there @ that moment - oh well . . . and do u have to 'capitalize' the H in hal? 4 him to respond :-)

oh - & ur welcome sir . . .

    hal is not in the chatroom right now

norseman http://lubrichs.mine.nu bot why not :-)))))))))