DIESELTALK CHAT

Dieseltalk chat is a realtime chat session held every thursday evening at 8pm central time.  The chat is held in the Binder chat lounge at: http://www.binderbulletin.org/chat/  <---New Chat Url<-

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5-20-99  Please note:

The URL for the Binder Chat Lounge has been changed.  Please update your bookmarks.

See below for more information

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Binder Chat Lounge

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NEW CHAT SERVER INFO

Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:53:35 -0600

From: Bill Thebert <bthebert@binderbulletin.org>

Subject: New Binder Bulletin Chat Server

The Binder Bulletin has just acquired its own multi-room

chat server license. The hosting-provider that we had been

using will cease offering Volano Chat at the end of this

month. We therefore acquired a license of our own, and put

our "retired" web server to use as a dedicated chat server.

(Our web server was recently upgraded to a dual Pentium-II

350 MHz box.)

The benefits/improvements are many:

1) Different-topic Chats no longer need to be "scheduled" on

different nights. "OldIHC" (pre-1960), "DieselTalk", and

plain old "Binder Chat" will ALL be available concurrently.

2) Additional rooms can be created as the need arises. The

above three rooms are available now. Anyone may use any

room for any purpose at any time. Two "Spare Rooms" will be

available shortly for unspecified topics as required.

3) One can see who is IN a particular room prior to

entering. If a room is empty, no need to log in.

4) Though OUR utilization of the chat server will increase,

the OVERALL load on the chat server will be decreased, since

we will no longer be "sharing" a common chat server with

other web sites. Performance and reliability should both be

improved.

5) "Binder Chat" was the last item remaining on the

"binderbulletin.com" server. The transition of this final

component to "binderbulletin.org" will allow us to cancel

our hosting contract with this provider. Costs will

decrease, allowing us to divert those funds to other

community-building projects.

The new URL for Binder Chat is:

http://www.binderbulletin.org/chat/

WebMasters with links to Binder Chat on their sites are

urged to update the references to this new URL.

If you've not yet dropped in on Binder Chat, here's the

current schedule:

Monday Nights -- "OldIHC Special Interest Group"

Wednesday Nights -- "Binder Chat -- General"

Thursday Nights -- "IH Diesel Special Interest Group"

As described above, all three of these rooms will now be

available on all nights. But the largest number of folks

will likely still be in attendance on the scheduled

evenings. Drop in for some "real-time" contact with your

fellow IH-lovers.

Sincerely,

Bill Thebert

The Binder Bulletin

http://www.binderbulletin.org