On 5 Sep 2002 at 16:18, Jkr438@aol.com wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees] It seems to me that Hermit is the scared one; scared to
> crawl out of his dark BBS garage and duke it out on the email list in
> clear vision of all the sundry Virus neighborhood kids.
>
> [Jake] The IRC debate would be logged and posted on the BBS. In fact I
> bet you could paste the whole log into one Email and it would probably
> be shorter than some of the cut and paste Emails that several have
> been drowning the EMail list. There is no lack of visibility in such a
> format. In fact it would probably do some good in moving the argument
> considerably forward so we didn't keep repeating the same arguments
> over and over. The major difference between this and the IRC format is
> the more real time aspect. Now if that is what concerns you, then I
> can understand your objection. But otherwise these claims of "hiding"
> just don't hold water. If you take up the challenge, we will all be
> watching, either live, or through reading the log and probably
> commenting on that as well.
>
I prefer the real-time and immediately list-posted format.
>
> -Jake
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