You don't need live audio and video to meet online, and yes there are better things than IRC and ICQ and net meeting. At 05:55 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >At 05:21 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> At 04:49 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote: >>> >>> I have stayed out of this for a while recovering from the trial. >>> We are drug pushers. We tout our technology but don't ever use it. What is >>> wrong with live mbone, real video, real audio -- pick your poison, so all >>> can at least attend the meetings if not the coffee breaks. If you tell me it >>> is no god and does not work , may I quote you to the NY Times in an article >>> about the smashing of the hope for the Internet :-) >>> >>> So why not??!! >> >> Because they don't work well enough in the current Internet. >> >> Let's be a little careful about demanding immediate, large-scale, production >> use of technologies that, at best, are currently useful only as >> demonstrations. > >They will not get better if people in the field don't use it -- "To find out what your opponent is up to, look at what he says about you" - unknown __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
