Damsel in dis Dress > writes:

>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:36:14 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>>Shouldn't be posted - at the very least. Sorry, Carol, but any other
>>repetitive announcement would be pounced upon by one, all, many, most,
>>or some as spam.

>I never announce it, myself. I think a mailing list is a good idea.

The only problem (if you can call it that) I have with chat posts is
that by the time I see them, the chat has long since passed. If you
don't check Usenet several times a day you won't see the post in a
timely manner.
Honestly, I don't think people who log on anonymously are sitting
there staring at the conversation. They may have stumbled across the
chat on the IRC host listing and checked it out, then went afk, shrunk
down the window, or didn't completely disconnect due to a software blip.
A solution might be to create some script that would disconnect guests
or anons after 5 minutes of idle time. People who change their logins
to names or other IDs could idle, but not anonymous. What do you think?

Stacia