[Air-l] The death of chat?

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

It's also interesting that the US, Canada, Japan, and Brazil sites will
remain open but only to persons who have subscriptions to one or more
other MSN services.  To keep access participants must have credit card and
other information on file with Microsoft.  The websites states that this
is necessary so that MSN can deal with incidents that may occur in the
chatrooms.  I wonder how much of this information they will be making
available to the police, etc if their is criminal activity taking place.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Steve Jones wrote:

> Given the international membership on this list I'd be very 
> interested in hearing reactions to MSN's announcement from outside 
> the U.S. The news stories I heard about it on the radio in the U.S. 
> emphasized spam and porn as being the reasons for the closing. Is 
> that the reporting elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sj
> 
> At 12:04 PM -0400 9/24/03, Karim R. Lakhani wrote:
> >I think this means the web based chat rooms and not IM or real time 
> >chat service.
> >
> >J Sternberg wrote:
> >
> >>With Internet Relay Chat flourishing worldwide since its creation 
> >>in 1988, as well as the ongoing popularity of AOL's Instant 
> >>Messenger, it seems to me that chat won't be dying out any time 
> >>soon. Although I don't know of any definitive statistics, my 
> >>impression is that compared to systems such as IRC and AIM, MSN 
> >>chat has been just a drop in the bucket.
> >>
> >>Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
> >>Assistant Professor
> >>Department of Communication and Media Studies
> >>Fordham University
> >>
> >>
> >>Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
> >>
> >>>  MSN has announced that it will be closing or significantly changing its
> >>>chatrooms worldwide, effective October 14.  The announcement can be found
> >>>at
> >>>http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=40329
> >>>
> >>>Lois Ann Scheidt MPA MIS SPHR CCP
> >>>Doctoral Student
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Lois Ann Scheidt MPA MIS SPHR CCP
Doctoral Student
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
Bloomington IN USA
http://www.loisscheidt.com