There's a reason we use email here. It's called time zones. Jabber doesn't work when people are spread across all time zones. There are forum-style mechanisms that also avoid the time zone problem, but I've never found them as convenient as threaded email. Brian (Saturday morning, 10:50 a.m) On 2011-10-29 04:54, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Fri Oct 28 15:48:50 2011, Richard L. Barnes wrote: >> Cool idea. I would hang out if other people did. > > There are 5 people in hallway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx now. Hardly a critical > mass, but it may be sufficient to count as "other people", at least. > >> +1 to using protocols other than email for ephemeral discussions such >> as these :) > > For it to take over as the discussion venue of first resort, you really > need a situation where mentioning something in the chatroom makes you > feel like you've adequately vented. That implies you need not only a > reasonable number of people, but the kind of people you wanted to raise > the issue in front of. > > Of course, we could even discuss this in hallway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx now. > > Dave. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf