Re: things not going so well at the Conference

[Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>]

Because I belong to another mailing list, and they started a chat using 
the mailing list. They used Conversation 
Station too. The list is called BNUI:
http://braillenoteusers.info
It's a blind and visually impaired-themed computer-technology chat thing, 
and Con Station was just fine for 
them. What's the difference? It's a mailing list, and people are invited 
to the chat via the list. So I said, 
why not?
Tyler Z
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:11:57 -0400, Sylvain Poitras wrote:


>Tyler,
>Thanks for your efforts, but I can't say the outcome is very
>surprising.  I can't recall a lot of interest on those threads you
>started about this teleconference.
>
>One thing to keep in mind is that it's extremely unlikely to get any
>kind of large turnout from a group of busy people living in different
>time zones who generally "meet" whenever they have 5 minutes to check
>their emails.  A teleconference does not seem like a natural extension
>to a mailing list.  For the record, I was outside planting my garden,
>as I am want to do in late May or early June.
>
>A detailed program could have made me want to participate and I would
>have planned my day around the parts that interested me.  However, I
>can't plan my day around hanging out with people on the telephone for
>a few hours (my wife won't let me).
>
>Sylvain