My apologies for the lack of any highlights digests for the last several weeks but I have been pre-occupied with the challenge of getting the replacement chat room up and running.
However a common theme recently on both the Newsgroup and corfid has been that postings are getting rather sparse. But this will surely change very soon now as reviews and enthusiasm for Harmony takes over. Talking of harmony a rather nice verbal sparring match between the Watchman and a man of the cloth took place this last week on the topic
"what's going on" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/bb/Forum1/HTML/002209.html
Highlight of the last few weeks on the Newsgroup has to be the disgusting and highly insulting language used by a troll calling himself"Paul Taylor" hiding behind the fake e-mail addy of
ihatespam@nowhere.not in the thread "Harmony CD" at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&...32b2b6b191b818
That's it for now. But as at least one person opined the Newsgroup has been rather flat recently, In many ways now I find corfid to be more entertaining and I personally feel that its virtues of instant review and the ability to edit one's topic and (if you started it) actually delete it plus the facility that I am trying to get Char to acqire whereby any image already on a web site may be simply linked to so that it appears in your topic make it most worthwhile.On the other hand the Newsgroup's archives contain so much worthwhile reading so getting to know both is if you have the time very rewarding. I hope my series of highlights has encouraged a few to venture into the opposite camp and intend resuming a fuller summary next week.
And now the commercial break Last friday saw a total of 8 in the room including the return of champion guesser (catman)Ron
It would have been 9 if our bartender (Ed) had tried one of the alternative links I provided and thereby got into the correct room. To quickly read a summary of the basic details and utilise one browser/Java applet method of getting in please visit:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat
If that gives you trouble try the alternative Javascript link provided by the IRC server (dilexnet.net)
http://www.dilexnet.net/irc/webchat/...nlightfootchat
As always the best and most stable way in is using mIRC either by opening the program already configured as described at:-
http://www.mirc.shorturl.com
and the new link configuration at:-
http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chatroom/newlink.htm
Or scroll down on my chat page as per the link above
to the mIRC section (which I have revised slightly) and which now includes some initial ideas on the various commands you can use in mIRC especially changing you nickname and setting/revising the topic Also there is the deceptively simple URL link that will automaticaly open and configure your (pre-installed) mIRC progra(me) just copy and paste this link:-
irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/gordonlightfootchat
So I hope to see more of you this evening at 9pm EST/2am BST/11am Melbourne time
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http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot