Module 2 Chat Task
IMVU CHAT
Every day when I have a chance I participate in Skype chat room, talking to many different people that are involved with Curtin Open Learning Studies. With being involved in a group I asked one night if I could meet two users within the IMVU Chat program and I was totally amazed with the results of this.
I created the name Bartias Cromwell, and joined Kylie from Skype in the IMVU Chat arena, she did have a few system problems as well as I think it was Janet who also had some issues.
Once joining the site and creating Bartias as my character I was bombarded with email messages in my box from automated response robots, that seemed to have a idea that I was playing in there virtual world.
Meeting Kylie inside the main area we did not do much, then another person arrived, I walked into another room which was a constructed nightclub, which was rather interesting. To me it was only of a interest to see what it did.
The graphical componant lacked any super-physics, which resulted in a state of boredom not being able to walk or move around like a character in a game which was a big no no if you want to get people interested in the chat room areas. Now I have found out they they actually have a paid structure of using the system, it is not a game just a means of people communicating towards each other, you can create your own rooms and so and enjoy what you do. OK easy for some, but myself I would rather something more simplified and user friendly that allowed you to move and groove with the groovey chicks like Kylie and Fiona.
I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but this program was not very impressive at all and the graphic content was just not my cup of coffee.
There were a couple of bonuses in the command structure of the environment that allowed netiquette to be the main priority if people got to abusive or abused the structured system and that was a reporting facilitiy in your command bar, which allows you to have a peace of mind but it still leads you open if you place a false allegation, so how would you respond to that.
There is a creativity side towards the chat, it allows you to create your own rooms that many people can come into and chat in http://www.imvu.com/rooms/ or even http://www.imvu.com/shop/product.php?products_id=1983722&quickfind=new.
In this aspect it goes past the form of a msn type of chat and develops a inner personal space towards the user and the environment for which he has entered, at one stage I was holding multiple conversation with Kylie and someone else inside IMVU main lounge, then suddenly Kylie logged off.
Summarizing the experience, I can see that it would appeal to many people in being able to enter into a virtual world where the worries of the world are gone and you can talk and mix with people in a virtual environment. It has many different aspects that could appeal to people, yet it does not appeal to me cause I guess I am a critical type of person that does not gasp this time of environment because other than gaming in a created virtual world, I would not want to mix with people in it because the factor it’s a hullicination it forms and creates a virtual world in front of you that technically only exists inside the computer.
MSN CHAT
To achieve this task, I had only one person that said they would be interested in doing the task.
MSN messenger has been a part of my web life since the first days I came online, I find MSN very key part in communicating it is straight down the line very good chatting software, with little emphasis on online adverts.
What has turned me off ICQ is the fact of security and that Microsoft constantly keep their updates up to date and there is less amount of issue with regards to spam bots, it creates a viable internet world for you to respond to those who you wish to talk to.
Msn Messenger provides functions to deal with those people who do not have good netiquette, you have the ability to block these people and report them as spammers which is a good and very handy tool.
Within communicating with Andaleepb, the communication was coming across very easily except for the constant fade in and fade out which could have been that she was on a ADSL connection and that my connection was Cable, fading voice chat could link back to connection use or even possibly be the systems setup.
Key aspects of MSN messenger is its structure that it not only allows you to send and receive messages over one media but then in branch’s out into the world of mobility and gives you capabilities of staying in touch with other people.
The many aspects of the MSN Chat are below please click on a box to see the contents:-
You can click on each individual file and obtain the command structure of the program it gives you a glimpse of the possibilites and capabilities you have at your finger tips. Another very good aspect of MSN messsenger is the capability of storing previous conversations with people so you can recall your last conversation. Their is no hidden costs involved and their is no gastly over-imbudance of spam bot mail or adware like IMVU.
Really this is a quite personal way to talk to others in a care free environment with no impending issues developing over time that could cause issue, microsoft constantly update there security patch’s so there is no worries there. In this environment you are what you make it and others see you on line they can chat with you and you can chat with them in a vice-versa environment, there is no hullcingene created environment to keep the eyes stimulated.
You have the option of text chat and also voice chat, and also the superior option of staying in touch via SMS mobility which is quite handy to those who can afford the price over time.
Summary I think MSN offers alot better qualities than ICQ, I have had a lot lesser issues develop with regards to viruses and bugs and also quirks by sticking to what is offerred by Microsoft. The product achieves the exact same result being able to talk to the other person in a internet created environment instead of the old telephone call, which enables the person to complete there every day tasks instead of being interuppted at the telephone conversation. In todays environment messenger software really has it’s bonuses in capatilizing on saving money via staying in touch with your friends while being able to manage your time vastly more than ever before.
One must remember that with every type of advancement you always need to keep your security and privacy under control by occasionally reading and keeping software updates running in order to protect your system from flaws that could be used by other malicious users that are on the web.
Email Tasks continued
Email Lists
Think about the following questions (it may help to discuss them with other students on the discussion board)
- What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?
- Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?
Email Lists
For this I decided to join the group task that was set out by Cynthia.
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/internetstudies
My name on this email list was dux1491; I carefully looked at what was on offer and joined a few other types of lists that were available to see the differences.
Lists – Pros
A) Email is sent to directly to your account, keeping you informed.
B) Allows creativity as every users input will be vital to the list.
C) Some lists set a guideline of what they would like to know about you, they send this as a part of there moderation teams effort to keep in touch with you.
E) Topics flow more which sets a interesting discussion to take place were people’s opinon count more, because they have the freedom of speech.
While there was no generalized set of rules for internet studies sent to me I was clearly notified after joining the other group located on the same site. Church of Christ sent me a valid list of Church of Christ@yahoogroups.com.
MODERATORS’ POLICY STATEMENT ON PERSONALITIES, DIVISIVE ARGUMENTS, AND LIST DISCIPLINE (September 28, 2000)
This kind of developed list that gives the list team members be given the rules and told what is acceptable public debate and talk, and what is not acceptable.
Lists- Cons
A) With the amount of mail that I was receiving by just joining the list, you would defiantly need an established rule structure for your mail box. I bypassed this problem by creating a yahoo account so my email inbox would not be as affected so much.
B) More time needed if something goes wrong with regards to what you are saying on the list particularly on the yahoo email list.
C) You have to find the archives on a web site, so they are less accessible than on a discussion board. With setting this up I had to join yahoo in order to access the full list of what was offered in there email list.
D) Knowledge is very limited to only who is on the list so it dampens the view to a very short view point than many other mediums.
Newsgroups
Newsgroups-Pro
A) Forte Agent is a great program and found that the search functions in it very useful, many different other programs out there contain similar email functions, so a combination could be good.
B) Newsgroups can bring people together to share a common interest.
C) Newsgroups allow you to understanding vast amount of topics in a variety of areas, similar to email lists, but on a wider audience.
Newsgroups-Cons
A) Obtaining illegal material is easy via Usenet posts, very dangerous for younger viewers.
B) Flaming and constant abuse is a popular aspect of Usenet
C) Pedophiles and other underground types of people lurk within Usenet greater than normal web.
Path: news.optusnet.com.au!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail
From: Chris <ardist@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: aus.sport.cricket
Subject: Michael Beaven
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:40:48 +1000
Message-ID: <eume54pba9doaenlnod5t2o643d0iecvli@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 trialware
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 10
NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.237.87.168
X-Trace: 1213684840 30463 220.237.87.168
Xref: news.optusnet.com.au aus.sport.cricket:116913
I really miss Michael Beaven, he was a great Australian player, would
have made excellent Captian Material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd2J7GuL-CI
Big Wicket, but who bowled him over to force his hand into retirement from the game?
Michael Beaven RIP.
Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?
Researching and weighing in the pros and cons to both products newsgroups and usenet, email lists could be vastly better option than newsgroups for many purposes that also include security for your children while viewing the web.
Newsgroups have there grey areas that could allow allot of pedophiles that can lurk in this area and I find that would not suit the most people once they work it out and that email lists can be moderated successfully and managed more coherently than just that of Usenet feeds.
Usenet newsgroups are the older version of the two and have been within the net for a vastly long time, but I find the non-filtering of them really destroys the communication process and capabilities of it. Newsgroups would have had a great ability to be used correctly but yet like many applications I really have come to the conclusion yet again only a selected few people would even know about it as the World Wide Web is pushed more via google and so on, it becomes vastly more appealing to join a email list.
Only major issue of email lists is the fact that any new posts will automatically get sent to your inbox therefore it is wise to set up your message rules so that you can especially file and delete the posts that you do not need.
The moderation of email lists provide a more successful and also encouraging method of discussing situations or topics depending on the pro’s and cons and what the product is going to be used for there are things to weigh up, I found newsgroups utterly filled with boring posts about how to become rich over night and pornographic type love letters and filthy language, yet not much moderation.
I then found email lists to be moderated that allowed the subject to be kept on that the subject without straying, it was also interesting to see the rules sent to you to ensure the integrity of there email list be kept upon a new user joining the group.
As the internet grows vastly more people will be introduced to discussion forums on the world wide web, it would take vastly greater amount of learning by the person to understand how the functions of newsgroups work, and therefore I find that email lists could be greater than newsgroups.
After posting my topic about Michael Beaven on newsgroups nobody at all responded to it, it was like talking to a brick wall and receiving not even a comment, vast amount of posts were either knocking others or commenting on previous cricket match’s.
Just remembering the key aspects of net ettique when speaking in the public arena it is a vital component towards enjoying your internet, there is no need to get into serious heated arguements over anything, develop yourself as you develop your online interest.
Module 2 Email Tasks
1. What information about a user’s email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
Emails contain a lot of different data that can be gleaned from them for example.
Consist of: username@domain.
The username is that for which the person is using on the domain server.
Mail leaves your system the first thing the network looks for is what domain will it be sending to, and then the username directs it to the user that is involved with the sending process.The username@domain is similar to the address in local Australia Post Mail, it has to be on the email or the email will simply either reject and bounce back to you and come up as a mail delivery system error.
The vital component in email is definitely the username without it; your computer will reject sending the mail via alerting you something is wrong. With the wrong user name and only a domain name you could accidentally send email to someone who you never meant to send to who was in your contacts at the same provider.
So in all, the most vital component the user name and then the domain.
By going file properties on the email that you have received you can gain in depth knowledge with regards to the path that the email has taken.
For example this is what a email header looks like all digital information has been altered:-
Return-Path: <billclinton @yahoo.com>
Received: from web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.100]) by mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id m5ABNXUq014299 for <johdam@optusnet.com.au>; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:23:35 +1000Received: (qmail 66193 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Jun 2008 11:23:31 -0000DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; Received: from [68.186.22.15] by web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:23:31 PDTX-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: BillClinton<Bill_Clinton@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Billclinton@yahoo.com
Subject: maxwell
To: JohDam<JohDam@optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <AA62CF1784FB4BCCBA9E5B5876C71D15@RavenClaws>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”0-1848670995-1213097011=:66101″
Message-ID: 826003.66101.qm@web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com
A few different sorts of information can be obtained from this email message header.
A) The Usernames BillClinton@yahoo.com and Johdam@optusnet.com.au
B) The Mail Server names :- web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com and the IP address.
Mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au and IP address
C) Date and time of the email arriving.
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the ‘cc’, ‘bcc’ and ’reply all functions of email?
When sending emails there are a variety of tools available to you as a user, but these are the main keypad to your successful sending and receiving of email.
Create Mail allows you to create your mail, ensuring that you have the email address of the sender; you then can create and send emails online.
If you wish resend to the exact same users/group that you have been communicating to reply all will allow you to send to the whole group involved with the email.
This is where email as a tools is a more viable component than just ordinary Australia Post mail, because we not only have the function of being able to send to one person at one time, or then hit reply all and respond to multiple people at once time, emails gives vastly more benefits in saving time than just ordinary mail.
Reply All also works when receiving email from one person who has posted to a list of people, you may then click on reply all in the tool box to achieve a multiple reply towards all on the list and will also include yourself in that reply.
CC: - Is good enough for me to use in majority of my emails. CC is known as carbon copy it allows you to send either a copy onto another machine or another account, or like myself I use it when I email my American friends so that in one key stroke I can stay in touch with them.
Bcc: - A Bcc (blind carbon copy) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear in the message.
Every recipient of the message can see all the To and Cc recipients, but does not know about Bcc recipients.
Remembering, learn how to use these functions correctly the functions be so careful on how you use them or it will result in a personal dilemma for you.
These functions work well in group activities, be sure to use them well as they can often lead to mix ups, I was stupid enough once to hit reply all and tell one person’s group listing how much I hated her images that she sent me of certain stuff, the person was not to impressed.
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
A) Most Internet Service Providers in Australia have a limitation on what you can send via email of around 5meg to 10meg depending on how there mail server handles the traffic, Hotmail and Yahoo can receive bigger files.
B) To ensure your receiver can open the attachment correctly, you would first have to ensure they understands how to use that attachment correctly therefore it would have to be in a familiar format depending on.
C) Ensure that the attachment can be easily downloaded and that the users machine can take attachments, as some email settings not set correctly.
D) Ensure that you send the attachment using a generic file format that they are familar, often pdf,rtf can be easily downloaded as attachments.
E) Compression maybe used if the files are larger files in order to shrink the size so you can furfill your isp requirements.
F) Communication with the receiver of your email is a vital and key component in sending, if they have no clue on what they are doing to download the file, you will need to carefully explain to them which will take up some time, sometimes often include in your email what program you need in order to get the file downloaded correctly.
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
At the moment I don’t have any filters or rule set up for my inbox, but when I was in business on eBay I relied on them to. Filters are designed to allow you with the ease of email that your inbox does not get clogged up with to much emails over time. You can specifically set a file structure in your inbox that allows you to store specific emails from friends or businesses or such sites as eBay that you can specifically go to these folders instead of your in box.There are a variety of rules that you can set up, and then the action of the rule be applied to the email address or email list.
5. How have you organized the folder structure of your email and why?
My folder structure is generic, I really have not much use in filing as I keep the folders down to a limited amount so that there is not much to control. I like a KISS approach because really email is simply that email, you read it and delete it.
I do see the viable method of having a controlling structure that is similar to that of a filing cabinet, only if it is viable. To me I get messages from friends I deal with the messages straight away. With my emails there is no need to create a filing structure via rules because the majority of my emails get deleted within 24hrs.
Organizing rules and your folder structure is very important when running a business because you can basically get the computer to do the work for you, just like the old days when secretaries did the paper work, computers have create the virtual office so they can ease the problems for you.
Folder structure is important, but having the right rules that control the data in the folder structure is most important, you don’t want emails to get lost that are very important.
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