<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Dave F <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davefoxfac63@btinternet.com" target="_blank">davefoxfac63@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
On 29/03/2016 21:20, Tom Hughes wrote:<br>
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On 29/03/16 20:52, Martijn van Exel wrote:<br>
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I find this a really worthwhile conversation to have. IRC is still great<br>
for some but it’s hardly inclusive.<br>
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In what way is it not inclusive?<br>
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Because IRC works in real time. Contributors have to be in the same time zone (or stay up really late/ get up really early). It's biased towards densely populated zones ie Northern Europe or East coast if North America.<br>
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As it has no record facility it turns into the equivalent of little groups huddling away secretively in the corner of the room to have a whispered conversation; something that only teenage girls usually do.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Could we not get osmbot to archive this to the web? </div></div></div></div>