[sldev] Re: OS-SL Development Issues (was Upcoming viewer releases)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 29-Aug-2007, at 10:35, Dale Glass wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> But *right now* what we have in SL groups isn't usable for this kind
>> of collaboration. Mailing lists are. SL is good for virtual face to
>> face, but it's not for discussions like this, and I'm not sure that
>> even with all of the above it should be.

> But I wasn't talking about the mailing list, I was talking about IRC.

The way I use IRC, it's got as much in common with a mailing list as  
with IM.

I'm *always* online on IRC.

I can go back days in the discussion, keep up with what's happened.

There's 15-20 years of bot development. There are bots that post  
links to del.icio.us, that remember specific comments.

IRC channels are interleaved on the screen, I don't miss stuff in  
another channel because I'm busy.

IRC isn't as good as a mailing list, but it's not like SL groups.

> So why add the need to run an extra program and make people have to  
> keep
> up with what's going there when the functionality already present  
> in SL
> could be used instead?

I always have mail open anyway.

Don't you?