TSML Closing 2005-04-29 - By Michael C Horner
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If it counts for anything, my vote is to keep the TSML alive.
I'm a long time reader, sometime poster, all the time lurker.
The point made that it 'pushes' info to users rather than having to 'pull'
it off the caliForum is an excellent one. Low bandwidth users can often have
a long wait at the caliForum- not to mention waiting on giant multiple
images and wading through undead zombie threads. Waiting for 'real time
collaboration' to siphon in on a phone line modem could turn out to be be
excruciating... I'll reserve judgement until after I try it in person. I've
had great experiences collaborating, and some quite unpleasant ones too. It
sounds like a nifty thing for some, but personally I don't forsee me putting
a lot of mileage on it. One problem I see with that is that there is no
public record of how a problem gets solved- sure, maybe Norm fixed the
blivet on my canoodle model, but no one else saw it and no one else can
learn how to fix thier own blivetted canoodle because it all happened 'real
time' on mine or Norm's machine. If the TSML is still active, I can ask the
whole group and get several methods of de-blivetting, and the next guy can
read that, search it out at a later date, and create thier own happy
canoodle all without bothering Norm.
TSML. It's Clean. It's Classic. It comes to me; I don't have to go looking
for it.
PS, Nice 'Binkyblognose', Mike. I tried the java IRC app in Firefox and it
also failed...tighter security than in IE I think. The java app runs in IE,
but takes quite a while to load itself up and get running. It works in a
pinch, but I'd still recommend a 'real' client; mIRC, Trillian, etc.
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