Re: Who would actually use a free chat system?

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

What network are the rooms on? EFnet? Undernet?

"The Wizard of Oz" <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote in message 
news:7k5zg.281199$IK3.154864@pd7tw1no...
> 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 



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