[Coco] Re: Re: The CoCo Cafe meetings

[Jim Cox]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:05:50 -0500
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 04:17 PM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:14:52 -0400
>>  Rodney V Hamilton <Rodney_Hamilton at GBRonline.com> 
>>wrote:
>>Roger, my suggestion would be to ignore the users' time 
>>zones and
>>>just use UTC for now - it's the same for everyone across 
>>>the globe.
>>>Based on last night's chat, I think hours & minutes would 
>>>be
>>>sufficient.  Something like HHMM: user's text...
>>>
>>>I agree with Rodney.  Just use UCT and keep it in HHMM 
>>>format.
>>
>>Are you ready for another suggestioin?  How about giving 
>>users an option to select that they are "Away" or 
>>"Lurking" or "BRB"  I stayed logged in and then moved on 
>>to another system only to come back and find someone was 
>>trying to talk to me.  Now common sense would have been 
>>for me to log off, but who needs common sense? :)
>
>
>UTC stamps should be working after while.  I'm not sure 
>about adding busy messages.  It's too easy to type "brb". 
> :)
>

Roger:

I did type either BRB or Lurking, yet some people still 
tried to contact me.  That's why I threw out the idea to 
you.

Jim