Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@...> posted ggj8tt$6qh$1@...,
excerpted below, on  Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:37:45 +0200:

> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> On 16:03 Mon 24 Nov     , Homer Parker wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:45 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>>>> That in fact is a big reason I never moved on becoming a Gentoo/amd64
>>>> AT, as well, since when I asked, they were doing most communication
>>>> thru IRC, and that just doesn't work well for me.
>>> 	It's just that it's quicker and easier to get responses via IRC if
>>> you're there.. There's ATs that don't hang out in IRC and still follow
>>> bugzie and do their testing.
>> 
>> Frankly, nothing works as well as IRC for realtime, interactive
>> collaboration.
> 
> That's why we don't use it ;)

Exactly. =:^)

I'm really too deliberative a thinker to comfortably keep up with IM/IRC, 
and there tend to be problems with either incoming message overload or 
(effectively) remote end time-out because they get bored waiting for me.

OTOH, mailing lists and newsgroup servers where most users are on the 
same server and working at the same time, can work very close to real-
time as well, except the technology buffers incoming messages somewhat 
better when necessary, and it doesn't matter so much if you take 20 
minutes to compose a reply.

Then there's the whole "I want to schedule my own time" thing, where IM, 
as with phones, can be very annoying due to the "right now" aspect.  That 
sort of irritation just doesn't exist using a mailinglist/newsgroup, as 
the timing assumptions are very different.

Nothing against those for whom it works.  It just doesn't work for 
everyone.

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