Posted by zazenduckie on January 26, 2007, at 7:59:26
In reply to Re: chat questions, posted by Dr. Bob on January 24, 2007, at 1:44:49
May the chat rooms be used for exploratory committees?
Thank you
Hillary Barack ODuckie
Deputorial Exploratory Committee
A CONVERSATION WITH BABBLE> > When people are talking to themselves in chat is there a record of it left?
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> > What are these fingerprints of which you speak? Are they the words themselves or just a record of who was posting at that time?
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> > Does Dr Bob keep a record of who is in chat and who chats with whom? If so does he have the right to use that information in his research or other writings/presentations?
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> The server keeps a log of who goes to chat, but not what's said. Unless I'm trying to fix something and need to know in more detail what's going on. I think if I was going to use chat information for research purposes, I'd need to ask for permission.
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> The fingerprint is the letters and numbers at the top of the transcript, "guSCYhqWQa5VKK5njp1EYdrSy0Y" or whatever.
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> Bob
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