From: Grand Epopt Feotus <68954@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 11:15:27 PST
To: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.fi>
Subject: Re: VIRTUAL meeting needed
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On Sun, 27 Feb 1994, Johan Helsingius wrote:

> 
> > 	Yes, not to mention that it just seems a lot cleaner so to 
> > speack, and also I dont have IRC here.
> 
> But you don't have a MOO client either!
>
	yeah, i don't
 
> >  I think a virtual MOO is very 
> > important at this juncture.  It's probably the best low-cost(as in close 
> > to nil) virtual meeting you can get.
> 
> Uh... Why is IRC any more expensive?
> 
	Well considering that in IRC you dont have all the neat stuff you 
can do in a MOO, like some people explained with the rows and "speaking 
sticks" ideas.  IRC is very cheap, free, but it is also rather minimal in 
my opinion.

> >  Just as long as I can get a 
> > client(not a prob) and am sufficiently prepared to figure out wht MOO 
> > it's on etc.. so I can go get accustumed. etc...
> 
> You are prepared to get a MOO client but not an IRC client?
> 

	Well, yes, it's alot easier to get the MOO client, then it would 
be to get the IRC client and compile it on a low quota account wiht 
sysops that dont like IRC at all.  I have tried it before with limited 
succes, and I dont plan on doing it again considering the status that the 
sysops have put it under here.

	My point simply was that MOOs IMO lend themselves to more of a 
virtual reality feel, than IRC does.   I have been on IRC and to follow 
multiple threads on it, and to have a meaninglful structure to the 
discussion, is very difficult IMO.

> 	Julf
> 
> 

	You're eqipped with a hundred billion nueron brain, that's
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	you've got too do it.  Free youself  ----Tim Leary----