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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been doing
hobby stuff on linux now for about three years, and am really craving the chance
to voice-chat online with other blind linux users. Hacking in my garage is
getting kind of lonely!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know of only two
possibilities; both don't work well for me.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>One is to hang out
on the speakup reflector which involves installing SpeakFreely either on my
Windows laptop or one of my linux machines. The problem with this is that I'm
behind a hardware router and don't want any of my machines connected directly to
the internet. From what I've read, speakfreely won't work with
NAT.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>The second
possibility is to join the Thursday night Linux chat on <A
href="http://www.for-the-people.com">www.for-the-people.com</A>. These people
are a wonderful community but I'm not active enough, so my membership keeps
expiring. Tonight, I tried to log in to join the chat, but I no longer
exist in their database. I am embarrassed to ask them to renew my membership now
for the fourth time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I live in
California, so their Linux chat which starts at 5 PM is usually happening when
I'm commuting home from my job. So I will only participate occasionally and
don't want to keep asking a human to add me to the database yet
again.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know of
any other possibilities? I'd like the same free-form experience that people have
when they go to a Linux user group in a coffee shop, just sitting around
chatting without worries about anything being off-topic.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=812351823-06092007><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--Debee</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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