Tea on IRC

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "connected" here. Could you be more specific?

Make it "a smaller place"? I hope you don't mean to lure people away from it?

/Lew

I hope lilo doesn't get his knickers in a twist about it and insist that you rename it ##tea.

Connected as in an unofficial room which is associated with this newsgroup. I didn't mean anything too technical, Lewis.

Um...no. Why would I want to do that, Lewis? I don't have any malice towards a USEnet group about tea. But, if this gives you problems, I'll shut down the room and leave rec.food.drink.tea.

I hope I didn't come across as some sort of self-appointed Net policeman.

Let me take this opportunity to say that, while I do of course communicate about tea outside the precincts of RFDT, I value this group a lot. Partly it's because of the *lack* of immediacy: some people here, at least, seem to spend more effort on getting their posts polished than they would in chat or email. Also it's public and easily found by anyone who knows what Usenet is, which helps attract a diverse subscriber base. And it's archived (thanks Google, no matter what we may say about you!)

/Lew

In the sense of making the world a smaller place.

N.

And I hope I didn't come across as a flock thief.

Usenet is pretty new to me, and I must say that I am more comfortable at times with immediacy. It could also be that I am out in the boondocks currently without anyone to discuss concerning my hobby of tea tasting (in an area where the primary beverages are Bud Lite and Folger's freeze dried coffee, that's not saying much).

I've closed down the room anyway due to lack of response. Besides, if anyone wants to discuss tea on IRC, they know where to find me.