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BBBCanada
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Posted 2/4/2003 4:12 AM (GMT -6)

Ok. We have had CVM discussion boards running for over the last two years...aaaand some of have gotten together on Instant Messaging and I have chatted with the Meph Man himself on AOL.

LO! This is all fine and well, but then I came up with the idea of starting a chat room on MSN. One morning over the last two weeks, I was on MSN Instant Messaging and I was and continue talking with TGB, Starkman, and Springs. We have tons of fun...(even though I keep getting booted , must be the Canadian phone system, no fiber optics, hee, hee, hee).

So, on an experiment run, I started a chat room. I called it, "Open Theists Room." At first, some of us had problems getting into the room but eventually we all made it in. And some guy by the name of "BigDaddy" came wander'n in. Well this was cool, because part of the point of putt'n it on MSN is for unbelievers to get in on the conversation too. Sooo...all went well our first run and we would like to keep it going. But we need some ideas.

For instance. Would any of you be interested in this? What would be an appropriate time for everyone where we could have the majority of CVM'ers/posters chatt'n live. Should we have one or two time slots? Would any of you like to "Host" the room?

Anyhoo, let me know what you think...if it is feasible or not. Thanks.

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Tom
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Posted 2/4/2003 5:56 AM (GMT -6)

Great idea. Lots of fun. Perhaps one 60 or 90 minute slot late at night, say between 10 and midnight, and one other 60 minute slot early in the morning (if any want). But I think late night is easiest for most.

Tom

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Springs
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Posted 2/4/2003 6:16 PM (GMT -6)

The chat room was fun once we found it. Brandon created it and directed us in. He was still setting things up as we began to chat. BigDaddy arrrived and was welcomed. Then Brandon figured out how to enable his handle to be the host, and typed in, something like, I did it, I'm the man! To which Big replied, Bullsh*t!!

hmmmmm.

Come one, come all, we got de Man, da BigDaddy and
...
THE STARKMAN!

Springs
ps: Sorry about splittin' town for the weekend and leaving Trillian up. Sheesh, y'all know 'bout me and puters.

"When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary." Harriet Jacobs

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/5/2003 3:23 AM (GMT -6)

Well, I see we have had some lurkers here to see what was up...25 at last count. Anyhoo, Tom said that a late night 60 or 90 min chat would be coo...I can do Thursday and Friday nights at any time. I think late nights most of the week would be good too, but I can't do all of them. Of course I can do most mornings because I work midnights and get done at 8:00am. If you guys want to do a chat on Thursdays or Fridays at say 10-12 midnight EST or even longer, it works with me.

Of course others can create a room and they could have it on other days, like the other nights I mentioned above. But I'm thinking that if we are to have the majority of people meet'n together we should have scheduled time slots.

So people, as the Meph Man would say..."Holla!"

Lastly, tis true what Springs says about BigDaddy. Maybe I'm not the man...boo-hoo

The chat room has the capability to filter any coarse language (of which I was still figuring out at the time), but it was neat that any one of faith or of no faith can come in. I would think that some words, for sure, we would filter, and the person can be banned for a period of time with always a welcome to come back. Obviously, not anything can be said on these boards and so, the same for a chat room.

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Springs
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Posted 2/5/2003 6:30 PM (GMT -6)

You da Man, dude, really, don't listen to Biggy.

I vote for the late time slot. However, having said that, I should let y'all know my computer has started making some strange noises.
(JC! I need a house call!) I could be out of the loop at any minute.
So... in case I disappear let me say this before I go.
Nice job on the idolatry thread guys! Welcome to the site Reasonable Doubt! Get a job Starkman! (I'm praying for you) Hola Meph! Yo Doc!
Sup Trosie?! Bless ya Selah! You tell 'em Scott! Welcome back Mags!
You go Don! You rock Alan! I love you Tom! Modes stop saying deontology! okay, okay, I got carried away...what can I say...pray for this hunk of junk I call a computer.
-Springs

"When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary." Harriet Jacobs

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/6/2003 3:04 PM (GMT -6)

Ok. Tonight some of us are meeting on MSN. Hopefully you can make it there. We decided that 10:30pm EST would be a good time. So, here are the directions to get to the room.

Go to www.msn.com and click on "People and Chat" Then click on "Home" under the heading "Chat" Now, you can get to the room by:

A) Clicking on the "Religion" heading on the left side of your screen to enter a category. If you take this route, you will have to go through the pages until you find "Open Theists Room." This will most likely be on page 4. Or

B) You can click on "Join a Chat." And when the next page comes up you can type in the name of the chat room. The name of the room is, "Open Theists Room." If you take this route? Make sure you type in the name of the room correctly.

Hope to see ya there!

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Edited by - BBBCanada on 02/06/2003 8:07:22 PM

Starkman
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Posted 2/6/2003 4:07 PM (GMT -6)

Well, I didn't see the Open Theist Room listed; it's not there.
I also searched for it, and it doesn't exist.

Hmm!

Starkman

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/6/2003 4:14 PM (GMT -6)

That's because I have to create it...duuuuhhh...

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/6/2003 4:20 PM (GMT -6)

Ok. It is up and running...

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Springs
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Posted 2/6/2003 6:59 PM (GMT -6)

And now it's down....

And now it's running...

and now it's down...

argh

"When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary." Harriet Jacobs

Springs
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Posted 2/6/2003 7:30 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks Brandon! That was fun! Even if we did all get booted a few times. It was good to hear from some of our contributors that haven't been around for awhile. Hope to hear from a few more tomorrow night.
-S

"When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary." Harriet Jacobs

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/6/2003 7:41 PM (GMT -6)

Well tonight we had our first online chat! Lots of fun! BJS, TGB, Springs, Semeia Alan Rhoda and others who don't visit the boards, tploc (a mormon), angellight(#)...they all came out. Thanks you guys! Awesome time...not a serious chat for the first time...but that's O.K. It will happen.

We will do this again at 10:30pm EST Friday Febuary 7. Tonight. Hope to see you there!

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Tom
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Posted 2/6/2003 7:57 PM (GMT -6)

Great time! I'm there tonight too.

And let's not forget Proclaim. He visited the room, asked what the OV, and stormed out with "Your god is weak." We tracked him down and all crashed HIS chat room for a minute or two.

'Spresh Yo'sef!

Tom

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BBBCanada
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Posted 2/7/2003 6:45 AM (GMT -6)

That's right Tom! Can't forget him! One person in that chat room virtually associated Open Theism with Process theology as well. Hope to see others of you in the chat room tonight. I go by the name "Disabling Tadpole" just so you aren't confused who the host is. And don't forget, the host holds the hammer..."Hamm'r Time!"

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Springs
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Posted 2/7/2003 8:18 AM (GMT -6)

'spose I was just a little churchmouse that didn't have hotmail. First I would have to type in http://www.msn.com and sign up for an email account. Then I would have to find the Explore MSN heading on the right side of my email homepage, click on the item “Instant Messaging” and follow the prompts to sign up for that. Whew.

If I actually had the time to do all that, so that I could see the peeps at chat, is it possible, just possible that, all my efforts slowly wrought, would result in something, that I like not?! Will my speakers ring with Blings? Will my silence suffer brrrinngs? Tell me good sir, if you please, will this interrupt my wine and cheese?

I don't know half of you as well as I should like and all that,
pip pip

What is it of Eve in you? It is in us all! -SS

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/7/2003 4:57 PM (GMT -6)

Ok,

Thanks for the concern Springs. You are correct. I did not know what you meant by such eloquent rhyme...WOW! Awesome! Thanks for your explanation by way of e-mail.

Basically what Springs is concerned about is privacy. The question is raised, if one wants to join the chat, they have to sign up for a hotmail account. If they sign up for a hotmail account, will their privacy be invaded by people Instant Messaging them (IM)?

As far as I know, no they won't. One can have a hotmail account without have IM. And therefore one can get on a chat without having IMing. The only way someone will know whether you are on or not is if you get IMing. You have to sign up for that as well. If you were to just go into your hotmail they would not know whether you are on. If you get IMing, only if the other person on the other end has typed in your hotmail address or screenname will they know if you are on or not.

Also, if someone finds that they want IM but they don't want others to IM them, they can control that as well. There is a red circle with a slash through it (much like the traffic sign) where you can "ignore" the person. I think hotmail takes questions like these into account to ensure total privacy and no harassment (pronounced "hair-ass-ment" not harris-ment,

)

Hope this helps.

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Edited by - BBBCanada on 02/07/2003 10:04:58 PM

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/11/2003 11:32 AM (GMT -6)

JCsites guy brought up an good point on another thread that those on Yahoo IM or AOL IM can't get on MSN Chat. Ummmm...I think you can JC. All you have to do is have a hotmail account and those servers should be able to hook you up to www.msn.com where you can attain that--again after that, follow the above instructions.

Also, the chat room will not be online on Thursdays. Some of us thought that one night a week for a few hours was good for starters and Friday seems to be the better of the two nights. Of course, that is subject to change if need be.

See ya'll there!

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Tom
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Posted 2/11/2003 12:11 PM (GMT -6)

I can't make this Friday night. Will be out of town Friday-Sunday. Ski trip with the kids! Weeeeeeee!

Tom

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Edited by - TGB on 02/11/2003 5:12:30 PM

Springs
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Posted 2/11/2003 4:42 PM (GMT -6)

I am hooked up to the Instant Message feature through Trillian, my son explains it like this:

"Instead of having five different IM programs you can go to www.trillian.com and get a program that has MSN, AOL, YAHOO, and ICQ. This only takes a few minutes to set up and is very easy to use. After you sign up just add your buddy lists to the seperate IM programs and you can talk to all of your buds at the same time."

For what it's worth.

Hope some others can make it to chat. It's not just about the Open View Theism anymore, last weeks topics went from Geisler to natural childbirth, to bigfoot!It was great humor. I was laughing out loud.

Meph would have loved it!
Springs

Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. - Friar Laurence. - Shakespeare

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/12/2003 3:40 AM (GMT -6)

Yes. If you want to get more than one IM, you can get MSN, AOL, YAHOO, or ICQ no matter what server you are on. But I think JC's question was about getting in the CHAT room at MSN or hotmail. And one should be able to do that no matter what server they are on.

And yes, we talked about everything that Springs mentioned. No holds barred, eh? It was A LOT of fun. Easy. Laid back. We even "settle some old scores," eh Springs? You really did make me think about my views concerning male chauvinism guuuurl. Thanks. I REALLY apprecitate your understanding and acceptance of my apology. Love ya in Christ

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

JCsites.com
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Posted 2/13/2003 3:55 AM (GMT -6)

No I was thinking of it more like Springs was talking about. Trillian is sort of a solution to the problem I was bringing up.

The only problem with Trillian is that you can't use it to create a Chat Room. So it doesn't serve the purpose here.

Brandon I keep assumeing when you say MSN you really mean you are using MSN Messenger, an program written by Microsoft for Instant Messaging? If using MSN Messenger, you can create a chat room that others can join. But if others are using MSN Messenger themselves, then they can't join.

Maybe my assumption is wrong? Are you on MSN Internet service? (competes with AOL) Where you can create chat rooms there? If so, I would also assume that like AOL, only other MSN Internet users could join your chat room?

There is no universal compatibility for Instant Messaging yet because of MS / AOL competition. So generally, you can try Trillian, but then you lose things like voice chat, web cam and chat room features and you gain a single IM program that works with all IM programs.

If you want to use IM programs to host a chat room, then you are forced to pic a program such as MSN Messenger, or Yahoo! Messenger (my fav) and tell all that they must use that single program to join the chat. Not ideal but works.

JC Sites guy

BBBCanada
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Posted 2/13/2003 4:44 AM (GMT -6)

JC,

Oooookaaaaay...I think I know what you are saying now. For i.e. using AOL instant messenging can one get on the MSN chat room? No. You cannot. True.

What I am saying is that if you are on a AOL server, you can get a hotmail account. One can also go to www.msn.com and get a hotmail account even if they're on a AOL server. Also, you said

quote:
If using MSN Messenger, you can create a chat room that others can join. But if others are using MSN Messenger themselves, then they can't join.

Right. I don't have MSN Instant Messenger turned on right now? So, I can't see if one can create a chat room, but I think you are right on that. But if others are using MSN Messenger they can join other chats. I just tried this yesterday. What one has to do is go to the window that shows everyone that is online and at the bottom it says one can join a chat. All you have to do is click on it and it opens a window to other categories, i.e. City Chats.

Also, by "Chat Room" I do not mean any kind of private chat. For i.e., when I have my instant messenging turned on? And say, Springs appears online? I can double left click on her name and start up a chat with her. That is NOT a chat room. All I am doing is inviting her into a private chat. There is a whole domain of areas at www.msn.com where one can go to chats like that sited above, i.e. City Chats. It's a totally public thaaaang.

Are we connecting?

<-----THAT was funny!

Brandon
"Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."--Todd Flanders/ Pascal: Talkin' 'bout My Generation

Starkman
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Posted 2/16/2003 1:29 AM (GMT -6)

Hey all,

One suggesting when you set up MSN and want to be added to another person's MSN so you can chat. . . be sure to email that person and tell them you want to do this. Otherwise, the person gets this request that "Sry0@hotmail.com wants to be added to your list. . . " and the person being asked hasn't the slightest clue who this is!

Thanks,

Keith

Tom
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Posted 2/21/2003 4:05 AM (GMT -6)

So are we chatting tonight, 10:30 PM, Friday, Feb. 21?

Tom

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Starkman
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Posted 2/21/2003 4:13 AM (GMT -6)

10:30pm...Central time?
Well, that's too late for this ol' boy!
But I'm usually on MSN in the mornings. (Even Saturdays!)

Starkman

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