fpgroups.com: Revised chat room

[John Esak]

> The wrapper/portal to Johns chat room is the right idea. 25 different  
> shaped 
> doors to the same room is a useful thing. 25 different rooms is a bad 
> thing.

> I think you inexcusably overstate the issue. Frankly, I would rather see a

> chat room that is more universally accessible than John's iVocalize. It 
> runs 
> on a proprietary server, it requires a proprietary client, requires 
> Windows 
> (last I tried), It's really about the _last_ way that I would have 
> implimented a chat room and is a bit inconvenient for me since I use a 
> non-windows desktop at least 50% of the time. I'm hardly protective of it.

> In fact I haven't even logged in in a couple years. But, it already exists

> and works well enough and the voice part of it is perhaps worth putting up

> with it's limitations. My eyes happen to be ok, but other peoples who's 

A couple things. The server The FP Room runs on is my server... yes... what
is a "proprietary" server???  I hate to hear the place called John's room
because I certainly have never called it that. When no one is talking
filePro we do a lot of personal fun things there... but who cares? The
moment someone signs in with a filePro question we all move to that topic
immediately. Mostly, the room has some regulars, me, Jim Asman, Tony Ryder,
Richard Kreiss... but new people come in daily and nightly and aall in all,
the place has its benefits or I wouldn't keep it going.

The software certainly now supports Mac and Linux clients. A couple days ago
I helped someone install an 85 user filePro 5.6 on a system in Canada when
the factory install procedure went south on him, and it was 9:30pm EDT. He
found the room through the pointer on the FP Tech site and used his Mac to
log in.... so, maybe you can try again when you have time.

Another guy logged in yesterday with a Mac to ask for names of filePro/SCO
developers who could help him service the many Carroll Corson clients out
there who now immediately need assistance. I read him a bunch of names from
my database that live in Texas. His mic wouldn't work at first, but after 5
minutes he got it working fine and I think the session was valuable to him.
Don't know where he heard of the room... it would be nice if there was a
magic portal somewhere.  :-)

JE