It is one letter missing from ‘uk-dopers’. Is it a coincidence or have I stumbled upon a chat room for dopers from the UK?
It has a password for entry.
If it is for uk dopers. password please? if not, and ‘opers’ is some sinister reference to questionable activity that I am naively oblivious to then er forget I said anything.
I wish I could anseer you, but, heck, at least by replying I can “subscribe” to the thread. I am dying to know the answer. Is “MS Chat” the same as using chatrooms on MSN Communities, or it it a different beastie?
MS chat can access standard IRC chat rooms. Having never used MSN communities I can’t answer your question. (sorry)
Can anyone explain to me why nobody is talking in 70+ member chat rooms???
and also, why absolutely none of the room names or descriptions make the slightest bit of sense?
did I miss a memo? I used to use MS chat all the time.
I spend a lot of time in our emphatically-not-official chat room, and I’ve never heard of a #uk-dopers. Of course, I’m not in the UK, and if there IS such a room, they could easily be wanting to keep me out of it, so take it for what it’s worth.
I would say it’s not doper related at all. Operators, those who moderate channels are called “ops” or “opers” my guess is that is the private chat for the ops for a certain channel.
Yeah, a room full of ops was my first guess as well.
Ok that makes sense.
On a side note. I did find a room that made sense, a game-bot room[sup]1[/sup]. there wasn’t a huge amout of people participating but I wiped the floor with those that were. I won virtually every question. Immense fun it was.
[sub]1 A computer controlled ‘bot’ asks questions with character-perfect answers, and then ‘listens’ for the first correct answer and awards that person points.[/sub]
An oper is IRC parlance for an irc server operator - NOT a system operator. So that channel is for opers of that network’s irc servers which are physically located in the UK.
For the record, the UK Dopers are here