GSS Chat Help Page

Thanks for wanting to learn how to talk to every other GSSer who wants to...IN REAL TIME!!! Yes, it's not perfect...newsgroup is coming soon. But if you want to, here's how to use it...

All you need to know to use it is that you click on the chatroom entryway on the home page, type your name at the login prompt (I prefer real names...makes it easier for me to remember who you all are), and start typing. To quit type /quit. And please quit because I don't really have time to be an administrator. If you want to know a little more of what it can do (there's much, much more) read below, or just hit me to start talking now.

Chat Command Listing:

/? displays a list of commands for you to look at (if you don't remember them)
/help will get you help while you're in the chatroom
/about will give you information on the current chatroom
/me will give you information about yourself
/quit will do exactly that...quit the chatroom
/list will list everyone that is in the same room as yourself currently
/listall will tell you everyone that is currently chatting (regardless of what channel they are on)
/do followed by some text will send it to the channel you're in (so everyone in that channel can see it on their screen)
/yell followed by some text will send it to everyone in the chatroom regardless of what channel they're on...if you're in Talk and Carla's in Hot Topics, this would be one way to get her attention...
/page followed by a username will page that user to come to a current channel
/channel will list all available channels
/channel folllowed by a number will change you so you're in that channel
/whisper followed by a username and then some text will send a message to one user only (talking to one individual instead of all of us...a rather rude thing to do but it could be useful...)
/msg will show you all of the messages in the current channel
/msg followed by some text will post a message to that channel
/info will give you some into on people who've logged into our chat and currently using it
/show will show you the values of your user variables...things that identify you in the chatroom
/clear will clear your screen with all blank lines
/set will show you all of the variables you can set like...
/set name followed by some text will change your name on the chatroom to the text
/set subject followed by some text will change the subject of the channel to the text (useful if you want to discuss something specific, like a reunion)
/set echo followed by on or off will change the echo settings (whether you see what you type of not)
/set away followed by on or off will let other people if you are away from your computer, but you left the chatroom open (like if you go the to the WC or something...)
/set awaymsg followed by some text will define what the chatroom will say when you're away from the computer
/set userinfo followed by some text will define what the chatroom will say about you when you're not away from the computer
/set ignore followed by a username will tell the chatroom to not send you messages from that person
/set announce followed by on or off will tell the chatroom to send or not send you any announcements
/recent will list the recent users of the chatroom

We do have dicerolling options also...for those of you who play D&D and want to use this as a haven for it...

So now you can go to the chatroom, or if you're just not frisky enough just merely go back to the homepage.