What are chat rooms?

AC said:

Jen said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

Jen

the chat channel is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) where the posts are real time.

There is also a way to get to it, via the web. Unfortunately, I don't
use that interface to get there, but a lot of folks do. Maybe someone
who is familiar with the web address, can post it here.

Also, if you decide to come into the chat, stay for a bit, and talk.
We like to meet new folks..😉

And change your name from Anonymous to whatever nickname you want: you
can do it one of several ways. There is a box on the lower right
corner, where you can put your nickname you want to use in the
channel, and then hit the Enter key.

Christine (ChrisD in the chat channel)

Jen said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

Jen

the chat channel is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) where the posts are real time.

Christine Dabney said:

Christine (ChrisD in the chat channel)

What the hell is it with this stupid irc.penguinpowered.ca server? I
can't connect with my irc client or the java website. Why is the
certificate no good? grrrrr..

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:59:30 GMT, "Jen" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

It's a real time conversation. Here is the access information (which
should be included in all chat announcements):

rfc channel:

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/dmdb6

or on IRC:

Server: irc.penguinpowered.ca
Port 6667
channel ID: #rec.food.cooking
--

Some people are like Slinkies... they don't really have a purpose but
they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

Stolen from "traid" on the IRC

notbob said:

Christine Dabney said:

Christine (ChrisD in the chat channel)

What the hell is it with this stupid irc.penguinpowered.ca server? I
can't connect with my irc client or the java website. Why is the
certificate no good? grrrrr..

Did you try the various servers? Like irc2.penguinpowered.ca, and
irc5.penguinpowered.ca.? Just keep on changing the numbers....

Some of us see you trying to connect...and wonder what has been
keeping you off the channel..

Christine

if you're interested. the link is....

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html

Christine Dabney said:

Some of us see you trying to connect...and wonder what has been
keeping you off the channel..

Stupid ass server policy is what's keeping me off. Most of the time,
it's no prob. Others, I get a disconnect and try again and again and
then I get throttled ...."your repeating connection attempts too fast.
You now cannot try to connect for another 5 (or 10 or 15)
minutes". As for the java website, I tried and it ask if I'd accept a
non-qualified certificate and I reluctantly answered yes, and it still
disconnected me.

nb

Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:59:30 GMT, "Jen" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat
room. What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

It's a real time conversation. Here is the access information (which
should be included in all chat announcements):

rfc channel:

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/dmdb6

or on IRC:

Server: irc.penguinpowered.ca
Port 6667
channel ID: #rec.food.cooking

What she said 🙂 AND (be warned) the topics stray all over the place but we
do manage to talk about food!

Jill

Jen said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

Chat is live.

"Christine Dabney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

AC said:

Jen said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

Jen

the chat channel is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) where the posts are real
time.

So what can be done in a chat thingy that can't be done in a newsgroup? Or
is it exactly the same, just real-time.

Jen

Jen said:

So what can be done in a chat thingy that can't be done in a newsgroup? Or
is it exactly the same, just real-time.

What can't be done in the newsgroup is instant response. A chat room is like a
real time meeting of real people, except that you are typing your
conversations.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:42:53 GMT, "Jen" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

So what can be done in a chat thingy that can't be done in a newsgroup? Or
is it exactly the same, just real-time.

Jen

It's real time.

Come and find out.. 😉

Christine

Jen said:

"Christine Dabney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

AC said:

Jen wrote:

> I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat
> room. What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?
>
> Jen

the chat channel is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) where the posts are
real time.

So what can be done in a chat thingy that can't be done in a
newsgroup? Or is it exactly the same, just real-time.

Jen

It's realtime and not exactly the same as rec.food.cooking. It's *much
more* like sitting around talking to people. We stray OT but always manage
to come back to food 🙂

rfc chat via the web:

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html

or on IRC client:

Server: irc.penguinpowered.ca (or penguinpowered2.ca; penguinpowered5.ca,
etc.) if it won't resolve the channel
Port 6667
channel ID: #rec.food.cooking

Jill

Jen said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

In a chart room, you have to listen and speak to everyone at
once. Kinda like the old-style party lines.

Usenet newsgroups have threaded discussions. You can read them
at your lesiure (and respond if you care), or choose not to. Or
respond at a later time. Whatever floats your boat. The
conversation will still be there 48 hours from now.

IRC is much more demanding of your time. Once you log in you're
kinda committed for the next few minutes or the next few hours.
There's much less substance in chat-rooms and there's no
filtering out garbage.

-sw

notbob said:

What the hell is it with this stupid irc.penguinpowered.ca server? I
can't connect with my irc client or the java website. Why is the
certificate no good? grrrrr..

I don't have a problem with the web-site certificate, it's the
unsigned Java applet (for the web interface).

-sw

Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

I don't have a problem with the web-site certificate, it's the
unsigned Java applet (for the web interface).

Use mIRC.

--

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helder Camara

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html

this got me a cute 404 message, with a helplink to fbi.gov I'm probably
not going to be chatting soon.

bulka said:

http://www.penguinpowered.ca/~vexorg/pjirc/rec.food.cooking.html

this got me a cute 404 message, with a helplink to fbi.gov I'm probably
not going to be chatting soon

LOL! That's a joke. Just try again and you'll likely get through. I
love that screen!

Carol
--

Some people are like Slinkies... they don't really have a purpose but
they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

Stolen from "traid" on the IRC

"Jen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I often hear people in this group talking about going to the chat room.
What's the difference between the chatroom and the newsgroup?

Jen

Thanks for all the replies. I might check it out some other time.

Jen