Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter Dollochan" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners,scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Chat Room consensus Date: 25 Aug 1998 18:21:44 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <01bdd054$998b10a0$026f6f6f@two> References: <6rjulg$1qh1@scea> <35df239e.1564110@205.149.189.29> <35E18BC6.6CDF@writeme.com> <01bdcf9c$8f08ac40$026f6f6f@two> <35E2D071.65FD@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-99-44-26.btinternet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.beginners:261 scea.yaroze.freetalk:892 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:1947 Hi James, The only prob was most of the names (common ones) were already being used(so you had probs logging on) but if you put your proper name in the description field when logging on the info was just a click away so i suppose... bring back the old one :) Pete. -- || Death is a non-maskable interrupt || James Rutherford wrote in article <35E2D071.65FD@writeme.com>... > Peter Dollochan wrote: > > > Sorry James I'm a bit confused does this mean that the chat room isn't > > accessible by anyone, it's just -heavenly body- dropped by during a > > discussion the other night ? > > Yep, the Chat Room /is/ accessible to anyone, which is why I wanted to > keep the Java code away from public pages. The Xoom chat-room (the one > that used to be the main one) was my personal favourite and seemed to be > pretty secure. The Chat-Planet organisation (currently hosting the > available chat room) has the dubious advantage that members from other > chat-rooms are able to duck in on yours if there is someone in there. > Perhaps fairly predictably, most of the other frequently visited chat > pages concern Busty Brenda's house of Sin and other such niceties - > though I'm not entirely sure whether 'heavenly body' would get off on > Chat-Yaroze... > > The Xoom Chatroom, I believe, is not advertised publicly and not > accessible publicly without the relevant bit of Java code. Did people > have a problem with the Xoom one, but not the Earthweb one? If not, I'd > like to bring that back and keep it away from public servers. > > James. >