I always have small questions that could be better answered in a chat.
I always feel a bit of guilt when I think of something to ask, and
think, I hate to bother these people again and clog inboxes.

John Gorentz wrote:

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>What can a person communicate via a chatroom that can't be communicated just as efficiently, if not more so, via e-mail?   I would not want such a thing used in my shop precisely because the things that should be recorded in e-mail would be less likely to become part of the record.   We computer geeks have a hard enough time documenting our work as it is.   And why worry about filling an inbox?   E-mail storage is cheap these days.   I have probably 15 years worth of e-mails around -- I hardly delete anything (other than spam) and it's not in any way a threat to my disk space resources.
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>Each time I touch that chatroom type of communication I come away more puzzled than ever as to why so many people like it.   People say try it, you'll like it.   I've tried it.  Each time I do I like it less.    I guess it's just one of the great mysteries of the universe.
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>John Gorentz
>W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
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