Re: Who would actually use a free chat system?

["The Wizard of Oz" <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:31:40 -0600, Terry Olsen wrote these words of
wisdom:

> I'm working on an idea for a chat system that would be telnettable from
> any computer running a terminal program (including Proterm). But before I
> put too much effort into it, would anyone use it? What features would be
> desirable? (split-screen chat using PSE, but then, Proterm already has
> that).  For my purposes, i'm thinking just a simple login and then dumped
> right into the chat room (who needs more than one room?).  Someone
> mentioned IRC a while back. I've looked at IRC and have found no actual
> "chatting" but mostly just bots running in the rooms. I enter a room and
> promptly receive a couple dozen porn messages.
> 
> The "if you build it, they will come" philosophy doesn't seem to hold true
> on the internet. So, is there any actual interest in chatting? Or is this
> newsgroup good enough?

	IRC is still valid. Just create your own "room" and ban the bots. If
#apple2 isn't still running then you could default your program to create
it. If it is then there are two possibilities. It is populated by humans
or it is populated by bots. The first is OK because that's what you want.
If it's the second then just create another one.

	Alternately, just connect a machine running an IRC server to the net and
have people connect to that server. Just have the sysadmin go through and
boot the bots every now and then.

				Later
				Mike