An easier way to chat?

• From: nephelococcygia <dthorsle_at_nephelococcygia.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:19:28 -0000
• Message-ID: <a6qt40+vd53_at_...>

I noticed that in chat.yahoo.com, users have the ability to create 
their own chatrooms.  This suggests a far easier way to give the 
group chat room capabilities than mucking around with IRC.

If the group description provided a chat link to 
http://chat.yahoo.com/?room=quizbowl, people clicking this link would 
join the room if other people were there or they would create the 
room if no one else was there.

The earlier claim (in message 9220) that Y! Chat is no longer 
supported on Macs, is as far as I can tell, just wrong.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/chat/chat-02.html says that chat is 
supported, but voice chat is not.  Since no one ever used voice chat, 
I don't see how that makes a difference.

Because Yahoo has always had chat rooms separate from the 
clubs/groups setup, this method should be unaffected by the recent 
merger.

And really, the IRC channel #quizbowl has become rather unenjoyable 
due to persistent op abuse.  The current topic on #quizbowl 
is "Frankel + midterm papers - sleep = tomorrow night + severe 
cirrhosis + beating my wife" and last night it was "TUG TUG TUG"

Because any choice of an op will be controversial, I'd much rather 
use the familiar Yahoo setup.  If someone on a Mac can check and see 
if this method will work, I think it's a better solution than using a 
system that forces us to choose ops.

Dave