[Coco] Re: Re: The CoCo Cafe meetings

[Roger Taylor]

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".  :)


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Roger Taylor