Posted by Michaela Mellody on October 02, 1997 at 21:59:57:
In Reply to: Re: Essays on Vance? posted by MikeE on October 02, 1997 at 19:26:06:
: Michaela, I'd be willing to try anything that doesn't require me to buy a service. I'm using a Govt. computer and time here and don't want to abuse the situation. I have heard of a chat form known as ICQ which sounds pretty good, but don't really know much about it and suspect that it requires a subscription which would leave me out. At any rate, why not apply metal bursting sagacity and set up something which us FNG's will humbly fall into line with. Tonight is my last night for three weeks, so I'll look in then and see what may have evolved.
I think that's a problem a lot of people sit with ... using work
resources, I mean. Which is why I think it would be great if we could set something up through email, which is a lot less
resource-consuming than the WWW, for instance. Oh, ICQ doesn't actually involve a subscription (as yet). You can download it from www.icq.com, and it's still free. I've been using it for a few months now (my number is 238972 and my nickname is ... wait for it ... Melancthe, should anyone wish to contact me on it).
--Michaela