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2011 October 1/10:32 PM
This document dates from the early web period, and is kept for archival purposes only. It is no longer updated, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.Talking on the net isn’t limited to just two people at a time. There are real-time discussion groups, places to hang out, and places to carry on long-term discussions.
- Freedom Of Assembly: Talking
- You can use the various conferencing services to carry on real-time conversations with large numbers of people. Most of these services are text-only, although a number of MUDs and MOOs are now supporting Web access, which means that they can include pictures and hypertext. See the section on the web for more information about that.
- Discussion Groups
- Discussion groups are sort of like e-mail, but with lots of people taking part. One person sends off a message (posts a message) to the group. Over the next few days, the other members of the group read the message (the posting), and some of them reply to it, adding their own comments.
- Discussion Netiquette
- The “Conversational Norms” apply as well to group discussion as they do to individual discussion. Group discussion carries with it an entire new set of norms and responsibilities.
- Personal Discussion Groups
- If all you want to do is get together with a few friends and have an e-mail discussion, the best way to do it is with a “distribution list”, or a “group nickname”. Each person in the group creates, in their address book, a nickname for the group. This nickname includes the e-mail address of each person in the group. When you create the nickname, give Pine or Eudora all the e-mail addresses when asked for the address. Separate the addresses from…
- Mailing Lists
- When people on the net get together to discuss things in an organized manner, they usually use some form of mailing list. In its simplest form, a mailing list is just that: a list, on a central computer, of everyone who is taking part in the discussion. Members send their messages to that central computer, and the central computer copies their messages and sends a copy to each person listed in the list of members.
- Usenet Newsgroups
- Mailing lists are controlled discussion on the net. There’s a central list of members, and some individual controls who is in and who is not in that list. In most cases, that control is handed to an impartial computer program, but the control is there.
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