Joe Geiser wrote:

> Tony had a good idea - the venue is a bit off though.
>
> Yahoo, AltaVista, and all the others put these things up to collect names
> and e-mail addresses, as well as other demographic information.  Advertising
> is what keeps them in business, which is why you can get an e-mail account
> and webspace for free from some or all of these companies.
>
> If it's chat we want, there are a few of us who have this capability inhouse
> and can host it. ...

<snip>

I joined it, not because I like IRC (I hate it and don't have time for
it), but because of the public exposure a forum like this gives MPE,
*especially* because it's on a high-visibility site like Yahoo!'s.

<merging thread>
It goes back to the "Mindshare" issue. It's all well and good to host
chat and archives and similar things like that on, say, the Interex
site, but for real-world exposure (read "real *wide* exposure"), I'm all
for using Yahoo!, AltaVista, InfoSeek, or any of the others that will
host us for free, to get the word out about MPE.

<merging another thread>
How about "Club MPE - It beats the hell out of NT."

<end thread mergers>

FWIW,
Patrick
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