From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.41]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ByoZ-00048X-00 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:16:07 -0400 Received: from deedra (rrcs-se-24-129-160-25.biz.rr.com [24.129.160.25]) by smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g4QEG8QI004384; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:16:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:16:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Deedra Waters X-Sender: dmwaters@deedra To: "'Georgina'" cc: Deedra Waters , speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speakup channel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I'm not chalenging the reflector. this is just my choice so I chose to use it. I've heard from a couple of people that speakfreely is dificult to set up and to be perfectly honest, I don't feel like fighting with it to get it set up along with the fact that I don't have everything I need to make it work. So I chose something else. On Sun, 26 May 2002, 'Georgina' wrote: > Hi > > Yes, its really great that channels of communication is opened up > but please justify your comment that it is easier than Speakfreely to > set up? You've just admitted that irc takes some setting up. You have > more choice of clients to use which multiplies the configuration > problems of a workable configuration for each user. > > Your comment could be read that you were challenging the reflecter as a > means of speakup users communicating with each other. Which was in my > opinion, irrelevent to your beneficial and useful course of action to > get an irc channel up and running. > > Gena > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > >I've been using irssi which is really nice once you get it set up, and as > >I put in the topic of the channel for now I have config and default.theme > >files already created that are a decent combination of things to work > >with. by irssi, I mean the irssi-text part of irssi. > > > > > >On Sat, 25 May 2002, 'Georgina' wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> An iteresting statement. I disagree. BitchX is awful to get useful > >> feedback from, for example. However, xchat-text is really nice and > >> clean. > >> > >> I guess a lot of people will prefer irc as they can hide their identity > >> away as the voice gives so much more than the words it carries. > >> > >> > >> I just was going to discuss these matters with you but you left the > >> channel. > >> > >> > >> Gena > >> > >> > >> > >> Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > >> > >> >An advantage of using irc as well is that it is a good deal easier to > >> >get it set up than speakfreely. > >> >-- > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Thomas Stivers > >> >stivers_t@mail.utexas.edu > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Speakup mailing list > >> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > >