Re: date with timestamps in chat windows

At 11:05 AM -0700 2/13/04, Nik wrote:
>On Feb 13, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Mitchell L Model wrote:
>
>>> Well, this is "Instant Messaging" we're dealing with. There's various
>>> excellent systems for less instantaneous messaging, the most common of
>>> which is e-mail. :)
>>
>>I rarely use instant messaging. (I suppose that's why when I do I use it oddly.)  But my buddy's insistence on ICQ for conversation has led me to discover this intermediate level of messaging between "instant" and "email".  (A telegram instead of a phone call or letter?  Did rich people ever play telegram chess?)  It might be interesting to catalog the "forms of conversation (dialog, multilog, etc.)" people use "instant messaging" facilities for -- bet it would be a long list!
>
>Honestly, your method of conversation sounds more like a web forum or newsgroup. Everything's threaded, and there's an appearance of continuity. For that matter, using a good threading client (Panther's Mail.app does a pretty good job, as does Mozilla Thunderbird, and probably many other clients), you can get much the same view, albeit in multiple windows. I think Eudora's the only program that can give you a continuous view (similar to an email list's digest) of a series of messages.
>
>The idea of a not-instant-messaging program that automagically generates a new "newsgroup" every time you start a conversation thread is an interesting one. All responses (if there's multiple people in the conversation) could be aggregated, viewed continuously, and threaded in various ways...
>
>This is all seriously outside of the scope of Fire or any other instant messaging platform, but it's an interesting idea for a product.

Of course.  Interesting ideas to think about though.  You pointed out a lot of interesting possibilities, and then there's the true groupware/collaborative software technologies emerging.  But in this specific case all that would be too heavy-handed.

So we can put the musings aside.  I just wanted to explain why the date would be useful by giving some context.  If I can't have the date, I can deal with it -- I just wanted to know whether (a) it was already possible even though I hadn't figured it out and (b) if not, could it be added easily, and (c) if not, why not (out of curiosity).

Many thanks.

     --- Mitchell L Model


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