Welcome to the Intro Conference!

Apr 16 15:25 UTC 1996

Hello, and welcome to the Intro conference!  This is your chance
to find out what the conferences on Grex are all about.

If you've never used a computer conferencing system before, this
may seem a little confusing.  This conference will help you
understand how to use the conferencing program, and show you
the kinds of things we talk about here.

Some of you may be more familiar with the various real-time
chat programs of the Internet, like IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
or our own "party" program.  I think you'll find that this
is a much different animal, since the discussion doesn't take
place in real-time, this gives people a chance to put more
time and thought into what they say, and lets them be more
eloquent.

The best analogy that I've heard so far is that conferencing is
like graffiti on a wall.  One person writes something on a
wall, then the next day somebody else write a response underneath
that, the next day both the original person and a new person each come
and write a response to that response, and so on.  (The main
difference is that here, the length of the responses is longer,
and hopefully the level of the discussion will be better.)

The next item will give you a list of the basic commands you'll
need to know to use PicoSpan, our conferencing program.