Robbie wrote:

> It sounds like a lot of fun.  But what time of the day/night should we
> meet?

Europeans, as I am, will prefer the time between 2100 and 0300 (Time is
MET -- Middle European Time), for that's the cheapest time to call the
net.  Or it has to be on weekends.

> Jody said that he would like to try the "chat room" using the modern web
> browsers (Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, etc.) which are
> readily available.

Wait, wait, wait!  What's going on?!?

1. I thought you wanted to use _telnet_ and not WWW.
2. I thought you didn't want to have too much lag.  WWW-Chat is the
   slowest chat I can think of.  So, ...
3. We should either keep it to normal IRC (mIRC, ect.) or we should
   use telnet, which is nuttin' else than using an ircII-client of
   some provider.

> We've heard from John Tuttle and Sam Harris already, and we'd like to
> hear from other adventuresome MMDers who would like to join the
> experiment.

Experiment?  That's no experiment -- it's just something already done
by thousands of people.

> Please state:
> 1.  Your name and location: city, state, country  etc.
> 2.  The name of your local time zone, and the offset from UK time or
>     US Eastern Time if you know it.

MET (1 hour before UK-time)

> 3.  The time of day you prefer for the chat room session.

as said: MET-night-time

> 4.  Your web browser and version number, and your computer operating
>      system (e.g., Win 3.1, Mac Sys 7, etc.)

Voyager-NG on AmigaOS3.1  (Never done chat with this.)

> I hope we can find a method which will allow images (simple drawings,
> etc.) to be inserted in the chat, and also sound files of some sort.

If you want exchange of files, then you must use normal IRC. To send files
there is the so-called DCC command: "/dcc send <usernick> file"
and "/dcc get <usernick>".

My idea would be to let someone run an IRC-server on hers/his computer,
so there wouldn't be too much lag and no netsplit.  I could do so, but
I don't think it's a good idea to let all the Americans come across the
sea ;) for the biggest part of MMD still is from USA, right?

If someone likes to chat with me, normally I'm to be found each day at
MET-night on server irc.uni-erlangen.de (thats the big EfNET!), on channel
#erlangen or on a more smaller server called afn.wwfin.net on channel #FEN

c u on the biteway

greetings by(e) Innmar Krause

ERlanger drehORGEL-Trio, Familie Krause, erorgelt@balloon.franken.de