No IRC in Kopete for KDE 4.1?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/8/28 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> The whole concept of "large" chat rooms seems wrong.  If you put 500 people
> in a room, you don't end up with 500 people chatting, you get 100 people in
> about 30-50 isolated groups and 400 people lurking.  So a workable chat
> design would allow a "main" room, from which people routinely carve out a
> smaller discussion area that filters out the background noise.  It probably
> needs to be a threaded design, so that it's automatic - when I reply to a
> specific statement, it creates an implicit conversation.  It might even be
> possible to overlay that on the irc protocol, but without it I find irc
> unworkable for anything more than a few people.

So would the idea of 500 people receiving the same email. Why not just
post it to a website? The fact is that IRC scales great from one on
one chats up to support channels that rival email mailing lists. In
fact, that's mostly what I use it for.

Additionally, go log into #space when something big happens, like the
Phoenix landing. No other environment could provide that experience.
It's like sitting in a large room with tens of NASA engineers and
other enthusiasts who are only too happy to accommodate newcomers and
answer questions.

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Dotan Cohen

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