Alan Holmes wrote:


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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is there a special chatroom for this newsgroup?

No.

What on earth is a chatroom?

It's a bit of a website where people can have a discussion like
this, by typing words into their keyboard. The difference from a
newsgroup is that a chatroom is live (so, for you and me to be
discussing this in a chatroom, we'd both have to be there at the same
time), and , it's completely transitory. As the page fills with
remarks, it just scrolls away into the abyss and our words of wisdom
are never seen again. So, anyone coming along to the chatroom half an
hour later will never know what you asked and what I answered.There's
no archive of course so latecomers can't look up previous conversations
as we do here on uusenet

The only good thing about chatrooms Imho is that users rapidly
improve thair typing speed :-)

Janet


Janet

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