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Thanks for your offer!!!
Thank you for your very kind offer of advice on setting up a chatroom.
The old forum actually started as a live chatroom and contained a chat client which was highly underutilized. As a matter of fact, almost nobody ever actually went there after a while. However, there are some vague plans to put one back online so at least it can become available for specific purposes.
Paul, site owner and administrator, will have to speak for himself at this point because it's been some time since he discussed a chat client with a host on duty at particular set hours.
Your assertion that a live chatroom is a way to get advice quickly is unfounded for a number of reasons. There is no way to assure someone would be online and available. There is no way to assure that the person you may find in the chatroom would have the life experiences, maturity, or knowledge necessary to deal with your particular problem. Free-for-all chat among a large number of people is highly unproductive in most cases.
A live chatroom which existed for the sole purpose of getting and giving quick advice could form codependent relationships where there was an undue reliance on such advice rather than someone working out day to day difficulties using their own learned lifeskills and capacities.
It has been clearly proven that the current message board is an excellent way of getting ongoing advice on a particular life event as it progresses from people who are following a thread. A live chatroom would have no assurances whatsoever that people who are familiar with a someone's particular issue would be there.
At this time, we have found the most productive form of getting useful help is the message board. It's more organized, thoughts can be more easily formed, information can be carefully reviewed and posts can flow in an organized manner. Also, the greatest number of people can get the advantage of information posted by others.
A chat client for social purposes is not what the forum is all about and that's what it would evolve into if it were not monitored.
Paul will advise if and when he decides to have hours when specific topics would be discussed in open chat. Until then, if you are not well served by the message board format a highly skilled therapist may be the route you would want to go.
This website is not meant for anyone to form a conditioned reliance upon it for all the problems they confront. Hopefully, posts can form the basis for someone acquiring the necessary lifeskills to figure out most things by attaining answers from within themselves.
My personal opinion is that a 24-hour manned chatroom would be counterproductive and discourage people from using their own strengths as well as forming close relationships with real people, friends, etc. outside the cyber world with whom they could consult on an emergency basis.
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Tony
"If there is anything Godlike about God it is that He dared to imagine everything." - Henry Miller , American novelist
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I was searching for this thread to give Patty a link to it when I reread your post and noticed you said you were a web developer. Are you single? What are your thoughts on children? 
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