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From: yam@cbnewsi.att.com (toshihiko.yamakami)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Problems with a conversation system: IRC
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.135702.27096@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 13:57:02 GMT
References: <2983@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
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From article <2983@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, by jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong):
> I've had an upleasant interaction on a currently implemented
> "groupware" conversation system, Internet Relay Chat, (IRC), which
> suggests to me some ways of re-designing that system.

Any implementation of 'groupware' which cannot support
explicit group member definition(maybe with some role support)
and group dynamism(addition of members, suspension, ...)
will encounter some serious inconvenience, I suppose.

Many current communication systems forget everything
when connection or association is disconnected.
There are some approaches to cope with them, however, not much
successful these days.

-- yam, a groupwork architect
-- 
Toshihiko YAMAKAMI(NTT, Japan) Resident visitor in Bell Labs until Feb 1991
 Room 4G634, AT&T Bell Labs, Crawfords Corner Rd. Holmdel, NJ 07733-1988
 Tel:(201)949-5742	e-mail: yam@vax135.att.com (was: yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp)