> I agree with this too, and now that you've identified such an easily-solvable problem for me, I plan to be a lot more active in opening a room (private, if necessary) and staying in there in case other people show up, rather than just leaving every time there isn't anybody there I want to talk to. This is my New Year's resolution, either four months late or seven months early, whichever you prefer.

At the risk of sounding extremely elitist and superior, this sounds like a good thing to me. I am very guilty of logging in to Chat, fully intending to Chat and then checking memos and logging straight back out when I've seen who's in.

The only trouble I can foresee with this plan, is WHO do you want to Chat to? Do you invite twenty people you know you like on the off chance they may show up? If not twenty, then ten? Five? Who do you pick? This is not a problem if you open a public room, but then the whole reason for having a user room is to keep out "undesirables", for want of a better term.

RinkChat is the only chatroom I have ever frequented and it will stay that way as long as the quality of other chatrooms I witness, over my friends shoulders, remains the way it does.

I've spent over two glorious years in RinkChat now and had some great times. Some of them were just laugh out loud funny and I don't mean that as a figure of speech. My greatest achievement was with two other Rinkies, recorded for posterity by Sosiqui as RinkRadio. Admittedly, it was over AIM, but Chat brought it into being.

It's the greatest disappointment to me that I've only made it into four archives. I intend to keep going with Chat as long as I am able and I hope everyone else does, too.