In message <E18jVkt-0008PS-00(_at_)rip(_dot_)psg(_dot_)com>, Randy Bush writes:
due to lightening struck tower, i was unable to be at the atlanta
meeting. i really needed to know what happened in a number of
sessions in which i have critical interest.
the jabber logs were useless, at best "s/he is talking about X now"
with no idea of what was said, how it was justified, what the
reactions were, ... note that i am a jabber user, run a jabber
server, ... so it is not anti-jabber prejudice. it just seemed
not to work in this particular context for this particular use.
perhaps it kept folk with insufficient email amused during boring
times :-).
It depends on the session and the volunteer scribe. I did it for a
while, found it very hard, but very much appreciated the much-better
efforts of others in some wgs.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)