To: jblenkle@calweb.com
From: Frances &/or Richard Clee <cleechez@tamcotec.com>
Subject: ADAMchat


God forbid I should ever say anything significantly negative
about any useful initiative in support of Adam. But- I do have 
a question.  Are there really enough Adam users left and on 
the 'net to even give much of a hope any two will connect on 
any chat service without prearrangement?  And if the chat 
boards (may their tribe increase) do proliferate, will there
be enough connections made on them to sustain them?
I never felt the price of Compuserve (especially when paid for 
in Canadian dollars)  offered returns to justify the cost to me, 
but always envied the scheduled chat sessions. I think having 
the chat on one of the Adam websites instead would be an 
absolutely super idea and attract enough more regulars to make 
it worthwhile. But I think it would be more successful if there 
were a designated hour and website where everyone would know to 
meet.  Of course the first objection would be to the day and 
time - if it didn't conflict with my car races or the next 
guy's football or the hockey or basketball playoffs or the home 
team's baseball telecasts or someone's bowling night or whatever,
there would still be something in any single set schedule that 
would cause someone to be excluded. And we don't want any of
our remaining buddies frozen out.
So - I wonder, if a number of websites are going to install chat
areas, how about everyone getting together and deciding ok, we'll
meet at 8 p.m. Eastern on Saturdays on Bob Sebelist's site, maybe
10 p.m Eastern on Wednesdays on Joe's site to accomodate the 
Left Coasters, this sort of thing?
It's the guys who provide the service who need to make the call.
But if they're going to get the crowd to justify the effort, it 
seems worth making. What say you-all? - Rich Clee


EDITOR'S NOTE:  subsequent to this letter, Joe has decided to have
his conference try Sun eves @ 8PM Pacific time.  For all you other
time zoners like me, that is 9PM Mountain time, 10PM Central time
and 11PM Eastern time.  So try it out IF you are on the Internet!
Hopefully we CAN get together somehow somewhere sometime !!!!

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