On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:25:01 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:40:09 -0700, sf wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:41:05 -0400, blake murphy
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:56:55 -0700, M. JL Esq. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:31:35 -0500, cshenk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>M. JL Esq. wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>cshenk wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Wondering if any others want to chat?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I usually pop in for a bit in the early evening (ca. time) but its
> >>>>>>been empty for the last few weeks at that time.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>It would be nice to se some more activity there.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I think we have stopped posting little 'wanna chat' notices so folks
> >>>>>don't know when to come in for a bit. I'll see what's up here later
> >>>>>tonight (your early evening) and see if chat seems active.
> >>>>
> >>>> If they want to chat, they check chat before Usenet. There is no
> >>>> logical mentality for posting chat messages here. Why don't you post
> >>>> them, on RFC for Facebook or get your own mailing list that sends out
> >>>> SMS messqages so people can chart with their iPhones.
> >>>>
> >>>> -sw
> >>>
> >>> Are you really THAT dense?
> >>
> >> what's dense about it? i just now read the original post (Chat? Havent
> >> done it in a bit! cshenk > 10/1/2011 2:06:18 PM) about 24
> >> hours later. i'd say you're the dense party here.
> >>
> >
> > JL sees the situation clearly.
>
> how so? post a notice here that you'll be in chat that many won't see
> until a day later?
>
Those who are active in rfc and want to chat can do so, the rest don't
care. Steve has no friends who want to chat with him and that's what
his problem is (he can chat to high heaven on FB but apparently he
doesn't).

Why is posting a chat notice such a problem for you? If you see it a
day later, it means you weren't reading rfc and you weren't available
to chat. So what? It's no skin off your nose. Chat is open to
(almost) everyone and it's nice to see new faces there, something that
would never happen with a private (in crowd only) mailing list.


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