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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've often thought that it would be good to be able
to easily</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>communicate with folks on this list in a way that
is more</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>natural, more like face to face
communication. I'd like to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be able to talk to some of the folk that post to
this list in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>such a way without having to actually leave home to
do it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't use any sort of video conferencing, or
voice over IP, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or similar technologies yet myself simply because,
I suspect</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the effort involved in my setting them up for
myself to use </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hasn't been obviously worthwhile
yet. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Part of that assessment
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>has been based on a sense that there isn't much use
having </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>even a telephone before it achieves
some degree of standardisation</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in technology or unless you know that there
is at least someone</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>or someones that you'd <FONT>*really*
like to talk to enough to bother</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>with the tech setup. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway to the point, how useable, affordable,
standard are</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the options for face to face communication between
people</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>from their homes with each other internationally at
present?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone here make use of these technologies
already?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd obviously like to communicate cheaply and
efficiently with</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>friends in Australia, the US, Europe, Canada, not
to give an</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>exhaustive list of countries but
just because I suspect that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>there are people in those countries that I'd
already "chat" too</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>if the tech was easy, and
cheap e</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>nough. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT> </DIV>
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