#synth-diy

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "walter carpenter" <t02e at hotmail.com>
Subject: #synth-diy
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:56:31 PDT

> has anyone ever considered a synth diy chat room, possibly on irc?
> just a thought..

YUCK!

I personally think it would to some degree deteriorate the list. The nice
property of the list is that you are not really bound timewise to the list
but is able to follow all threads anyhow. We do see rather interactive mail
bursts also, but those not being waken, reading mail or migth even be out for
work may follow the discussions. With IRC (and I have seen this happend)
things goes more fluently passed by (which to some degree would be good for
the list) but I would hate to see that good valid technical discussions happend
in the IRC world just to be refered to in the email list. Thus that was not
able to participate will become locked out. Also, logging of the IRC discussion
is also not a very good option since IRC tends to lend itself to more noise
than an email list. Some people think that Synth-DIY allready have too much
noise.

So, for thuse of us that does not have a blue-tooth operated into our mouths
for 24 hour constant Internet access I think the IRC idea is a bad one.

This is naturally only the humble opinion of yours truly.

Cheers,
Magnus