I'm off work sick today, so I've got a moment to browse.

I tried to run a chat room for QRP for a while, and never got any takers. Hopefully a web-based chat will do better. I had the same idea -- fox-spots, etc should be on the chat room. It never caught on. Since most of us have dial up access, perhaps we didn't want to tie our phone lines up for hours at a time.

That's the reason I push hard for an e-mail version. I can deal with that off-line. I don't read every message, far from it. My software (once I set it up) filters most everything, files it for me, and even ignores stuff I ask it to (I use Agent). I guess I'm surprised at the number of people that read messages on-line. It seems terribly inefficient to me to be on-line for an hour, when you can download them and free up the telephone in less than two minutes.

I don't have a train, nor can I take messages to meeting with me. I can't read it from the web at work. I'm just not sure how this is more efficient. I can scan titles in my mail software easier than on the web.

Why am I mentioning this? I think the management will be surprised at the number of people that will choose e-mail over the web (I'd put it more around 75% of users). After all, QRP-L can be read on the web, too (the archive is updated frequently). Unfortunately, you can't post that way. It is the only difference I notice, however.