Interactive Contribution from Subscriber

From: Rosemary Lehman
Reply-To: lehman@ics.uwex.edu
Subject: Re: DESIEN Question - Chatware Recommendations

On Thurs. Sept. 23, Roy Taylor of Carnegie Mellon University wrote:

While we're on the general topic of forum technology: Can anyone offer a favorable recommendation for chatroom software that allows students behind firewalls to participate?

Most of the systems we've examined for synchronous online discussion download a Java applet, which then talks to the remote server through a port distinct from that which the browser uses. Corporate clients, in particular, frequently fail to connect reliably in this configuration. Truly distant students -- in India, for example -- may also have difficulty due to network latency.

Respond to: DESIEN-List@uwex.edu or crt@drakon.de.cs.cmu.edu

Roy Taylor
Distance Education
Carnegie Mellon University
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