Here's my 2 cents: I have a problem with the increase of web based services. Increasingly less experienced computer users are being shielded from most of the Internet. It has come to the point where companies can use the buzzword "web" and their potential customers will see it as The Internet. There are many great standard protocols on the internet that were designed for a specific function and I think most of them do it quite well. Now we have all these companies trying to incorperate these features into their web site so that most users will think that IE IS the internet. Usenet was setup for message boards, and IRC was setup for real time chat. So why do we need web sites creating their own programs to do things that standard programs have been doing even before the web was created, and we were all running free in Gopherspace?
I have the same sort of issues with all these different IM protocols but I won't get into that here. Jesse
