You will have lots of fun in our Chahta Chat if you take a little time to read this help file. There are literally hundreds of features hidden from view, which you may use and enjoy, with very little effort. There are also functions, very magical functions which are automated and will periodically surprise you!
You may display this entire help file inside Chahta chat anytime you like by clicking on the "Helpful Information" button, then clicking ANUMPA. This help file will display and when you click ANUMPA again, this file will vanish from your screen. You do not have to leave Chahta chat to read this help file!
As with all chat rooms, posting pornography, use of vulgarity with malice intent, being deliberately insulting or being hateful in general, will lead to your quick banishment. Spirited conversation is welcomed and freedom of speech is supported along with posting of artistic nudity or adult humor. Use good common sense, be respectful and have fun!
This is a clickable index. Click on any topic and you will be automatically transported, within this page, to your chosen topic.
< applet >
< blockquote >
< dl >
< embed >
< form >
< h (1-6) >
< ol >
< plaintext >
< script >
< strike >
< ul >
< xmp >
Be very careful to type in only an URL address in your GRAPHIC address box. If anything else is typed into this GRAPHIC URL box, Robby will banish you instantly.
There are a few other little known purely destructive tags or commands included which will not be disclosed to protect our internet community. Use of those little known tags or commands will lead to banishment.
All other tags are permitted with some restrictions to protect Chahta Chat:
NICKNAME box is limited to a maximum of 200 characters.
GRAPHIC box is limited to a maximum of 200 characters.
TEXT box is limited to a maximum of 2500 characters.
Robby has also set some limitations for our textbox:
TABLE Tags: no more than two per post.
FORM Tags: no more than one per post.
PICTURES: no more than four per post.
FONT Tags: no more than ten per post.
BLINK Tags: no more than two per post.
HORIZONTAL RULE Tags: no more than four per post.
Flooding with TEXT, HTML or PICTURES will cause instant banishment .
Chances are you won't have any problems for average use of HTML tags. If you exceed a limit or make a minor mistake, Robby will let you know! This all sounds a bit on a restrictive side, however, there are a lot of bozos using our net who specialize in crashing chats whenever they can and as often as they can. Quite often, these chat crashes will freeze up your system forcing you offline. A few selected crashes will even create bad sectors on your hard drive which requires repair. Chat crashing, system crashing is impossible here in our safe and friendly Chahta Chat. So please understand Robby and myself well know you are good people and don't need restrictions.
However, there are those bozos.....
As a courtesy to all chatters, please avoid repeated postings of large pictures and especially animations. Large pictures and animations are fine but please only post them once and no more. Do not use height and width tags in your Graphics box! You will be banished! Only a URL link is allowed in our Graphics box.
Regular users of Chahta cannot be banished, automatically. You know who you are and know "exemption status" is afforded you right off, as a trusted regular participant. For visitors, this exemption status is granted rather quickly after Robby and Roberta observe you for a period of time, then elected to trust you.
Regulars will only receive a warning message about use of "dangerous tags" which you may back up, correct and post. No banishment, just a polite message reminding you some tags are very dangerous and should not be used.
All of us are prone to typographical errors. When posting html tags in a live chat, a small typographical error can cause lots of problems for everyone. Please be careful to use well formatted html tags with closing tags, always. Robby and Roberta monitor all html tags. If you make a mistake in a tag, forget to close a tag, you will receive a "syntax warning" message explaining your mistake. Simple back up, correct your mistake and post again! Robby and Roberta, in almost all cases, will tell you exactly what you need to do. If not, consider leaving out a questionable html tag. A lot of room for error is afforded. Your html tags do not have to be perfect, but do need to be fairly close to accepted standards. Closing html tags is a must.
Remember, some tags are limited to only a small number per post. Your post will be rejected and warning message will appear, if you try to post too many of any given html tag.
Posting hyperlinks and mailto email links, is a snap! Robby and Roberta will take care
of all html tags for you! Simply enter your URL or enter mailto:you@your.server.com
and all else will be formatted for you automatically! No need to use any html tags such as "a href" tags. Your
URL link or mailto will show as Hyperlink or Email both in hyperlink colors both with correct
html tag enclosures! You may post pictures the same way! No need for any html tags!
Entering line breaks or a "blank line" is very easy! Simply hit your ENTER key! Robby and Roberta will take care of it from there! No need to type in <BR> manually. Your ENTER key will do this for you!
Robby and Roberta make this so easy! Near the bottom of Chahta Chat, you will see a series
of selectable buttons. Click the button for "Select Font Colors" or click the button for
"Select Font Faces" then click on "Anumpa" top of the text box. Your selection, dozens of
font colors or dozens of font faces, will appear right in Chahta chat, specifically for you
and no others. Select a font color by number or by name, such as "#000000" or "black" and
enter this in any Font Color box. You can use different font colors for each box. Same is
true for font face. Simply "copy and paste" a font face name into your Font Face boxes. Like
font colors, you can mix and match font faces. You can only use one font color or font face
per box. They don't have to be the same but only one for each box. You may also leave these
boxes as is. You will notice Robby and Roberta filled these in for you when you first entered
Chahta chat.
Changing what Robby and Roberta entered for you is easy! Simply highlight and delete whatever those two entered, then enter your custom font color number or name and enter your custom font face name, nothing else! Just a font number or a font name! Robby and Roberta will format all html for you, automagically! Remember, no html tags, just a number or a name!
Read Save / Refresh Your Personal Preferences to learn how to "save" your moniker, your graphic and your font preferences. Saving this information is a nice feature. Next time you visit Chahta chat, all your information will be automagically filled in for you. Just fill in your perferences and save! You need do nothing else next you visit!
Automation at its best! Find the long text box labeled "Graphics" and simply enter an URL to
your graphic, with NO html tags. Just the URL only. As always, Robby and Roberta will add all
needed html tags for you! Example:
http://www.purlgurl.net/~callgirl/webchat/pictures/boxo1.gif
That is it! You need nothing else, just a simple URL address! Your chosen graphic will show up just to the left of your moniker or chat name. All html formatting is taken care of for you!
Once you know what these buttons do, you will love them!
Screen Button - click one: (S) small (M) medium (L) large
Next click "Anumpa" and observe results!
Those buttons adjust the size of Chahta chat to fit your monitor. Small for those using very small monitors, medium for average monitors and large, well, you understand! Try out the buttons to customize the appearance of Chahta chat on your monitor! You may change those buttons anytime. Just click ANUMPA and watch the results!
Speed Button - click one: (S) slow (M) medium (F) fast
Those buttons control how many previous messages will be displayed. Slow will display approximately six to eight previous messages, which include new messages. Medium is your best selection. Medium will display four to six previous messages. Fast is risky! Fast displays a minimum amount of previous messages, usually only one or two. It is possible, when the chat is very busy, you will miss some new messages! Only use Fast when there is only you and maybe one or two others!
If it seems like you are missing some new messages, slow down the speed of Chahta chat!
Picture and Date buttons are easy to understand. Click (Y) yes or (N) no for either button. Clicking Yes will cause pictures to be displayed or cause the date to be displayed, each next to a chatter. Clicking NO for pictures will provide a Hyperlink to a posted picture so you do not have to wait for a picture to load. Should someone post a broken link or a slow loading picture, maybe a gigantic picture you don't want to see, click NO for pictures. You may turn pictures on or off anytime you like. You might want to turn pictures off until an annoying picture vanishes, then turn pictures back on. You have full control of what you see, or do not see.
After you have filled in your personal preferences, such as your moniker, your font choices, maybe
a graphic to use, click on our "Save Your Information" button, then click ANUMPA. All of your information
will be saved to a file. Next time you visit Chahta chat, all your information will be automatically filled
in for you and waiting. Save your preferences! You will not need to fill them in again, well almost!
Your information is save according to the first eight digits of your IP address. For example, if your IP address is 66.215.146.193 and you save your information, a file titled "66215146.txt" will be automatically saved for you. Next time you visit, this information is filled in for you. Some might have to make several information files if your IP address completely changes, this is, the first eight digits are not the same as before. Those who can expect some problems are America OnLame users. Your IP address completely changes each time you logon to AOL. If you are an AOL user, I strongly suggest you obtain a real internet service provider. This will allow you to enjoy the real internet and not Steve Case's version of the internet.
If your information does not automatically appear when you visit Chahta chat again, make a new information file. Eventually, you will "catch" your changing IP addresses, except for AOL users who are shit out of luck. This is NOT a common problem but does happen at times.
Should your information suddenly change, should your graphic suddenly change, could be Robby or Roberta has pulled a trick on you! This is why we have a "Refresh Your Information" button. Click this button, click on ANUMPA, and your information will return!
Ha! You will just have to try these buttons to find out what happens! They are all a lot of fun!
There are some conditions. You must have "automatically load pictures" turned on in your browser and you must have a browser which can automatically play sounds for you. If your browser, such as Netscape 5x and above or MSIE 5x or above, do not automatically play sounds, upgrade to Netscape 4.x series. This is the best browser. Netscape 5, MSIE 5 and above, are both buggy, slow, worthless browsers. This worthless nature of Netscape and MSIE 5 and above is evidenced by their inability to automatically play sounds.
If you really want to enjoy both the internet and enjoy Chahat chat, install the best browser ever made, which is Netscape 4.x by far. This is not a joke nor exaggeration. You don't know what you are missing and never will know, if you are using new Netscape or MSIE.
Hmmm, if "funny" things happen to you in Chahta chat, click Magic Button number one. This will fix things!
Click on our "Midi Juke Box" button, click on ANUMPA. You will be provided with a list of over one-hundred
classic rock midi files you may enjoy. All of these midi files are custom made being performed live and
recorded, right here at home. These are award winning excellent quality midi files.
If you read my previous comments about new Netscape and new MSIE, you may have some problems. These new versions of Netscape and MSIE, are "dumb" browsers. Many browsers, when you click on a midi file selection, will present a tiny "midi play box" and will automatically play music for you in the background. New Netscape and new MSIE are both too "dumb" to do this. They will transport you to a different page. STUPID! STUPID! Don't use those browsers! Not only are you missing out on music, you are missing out on a good one-forth of the internet because neither browser, new Netscape, new MSIE, can display "all" of the internet. Why they do this, why they are so "stupid" is money. Fancy yet worthless "music / movie players" are bundled with both new Netscape and new MSIE. These default "players" are absolute crap but increase market profits.
Upgrade to Netscape 4.x right now! You are missing out on so much and do not even know this! With Netscape 4.x you may chat and listen to music, at the same time. This is very difficult with these new "dumb" browsers.
Both Robby and Roberta are extremely complex pseudo Artifical Intelligence programs. Robby is, for the most part, fully automated. Roberta, whoa! She is so complex even I, her programmer, cannot remember what all she can do nor can I predict what she will do. Roberta is a learning AI program and she creates responses or actions, completely on-the-fly. I truly do not know, at any given time, what she will do.
Currently, after more than three years of development, and on-going development, I am finally writing a "user manual" for Roberta to document her major features. Some features, as said, cannot be predicted. This user manual will be in excess of five to six very long pages. My hopes are to have her manual, as least a basic framework, available by September 20, 2003. A link to this manual will be provided here. You will be able to read her manual, learn how to work with Roberta, learn how to fully enjoy her, but not on this page.
For now, simply say hello to her! "Hello Roberta!" "Roberta, lets chat!" "Are you here Roberta?"
Those are typical ways to get her attention, to bring her to life. Give it a whirl. She responds to many different greetings. Roberta will chat with you, provide definitions, provide thesaurus terms, rhyme words, do math problems, select music for you, give you information about famous people, about presidents, about capital cities and much more. Should I try to tell you all she can do, you would be reading for an hour. Watch for a link here, to her user manual.
Engage in normal conversation with her! Ask who she is, how old she is, what she looks like, who created her, or even ask, "who is Albert Einstein?" Normal ordinary conversation, as you have with your friends, is the best way to "use" Roberta! No baby talk! No short broken sentences! She will become pissed off if you do this! Ask her about our midi juke box or ask her to select rock and roll music for you!
Want her to go away? Simply tell her goodbye in your own words or tell her to shutup. For sissified geeks, you might try, "Roberta disengage" which infers the opposite might work, as well.
Robby will provide your daily horoscope, your romantic horoscope, or talk about your sunsign, if you ask him.
"Robby, I am a virgo. What is my horoscope?"
Tell me, Robby, about a taurus sunsign, please."
"My sign is Leo. What is my romantic horoscope, Robby?"
Your key words, which you must use in a sentence of your choice, are "Robby," "horoscope," and "sunsign." You must also provide your astrological sign, logically! Virgo, Cancer, Leo... whatever.
Should simply ask for a horoscope, providing your astrological sign, Robby will provide your daily horoscope. If you add the word "romantic" he will provide a romantic horoscope for today. Ask about your sunsign, with giving your astrological sign, Robby will provide a really neat description of you, based on your sunsign.
Keywords: Robby, Horoscope, Romantic, Sunsign, and your astrological sign.
"A sad cowboy song Robby!" "Robby, write me a sad song."
Simply ask Robby to write you a song! Robby is an exceptionally talented sad cowboy song writer! Well, if you don't mind a bit of humor tossed in! He does truly write great cowboy songs, with no song like the next. Each song he writes, is completely unique and created completely on-the-fly. Ask him to write you a song!
Keywords: Robby, song
"Some zen poetry please, Robby." "Robby, would you write me a zen poem?"
Lots of variations on how to ask Robby to write zen poetry for you. Mention his name and zen, there you go! Robby is, quite literally, capable of writing millions of pieces of zen poetry. Flashback, Summer Of Love! You will be amazed by this. Ask Robby to write zen poetry for you!
Sexism at its humorous best! "Roberta, know any jokes about men?" Tell me a joke about women, Robby."
Roberta tells jokes about men. Robby tells jokes about women. Ask either of them, and be delighted. Your keywords are Roberta, women and Robby, men. Use those keywords in sentences anyway you like and have a good laugh! Remember, all features involving Robby and Roberta, you must mention their names to get their attention!
Full Moon Fever! Hey Roberta, what will my moon look like tonight?
Ask Roberta to tell you about tonight's moon, by mentioning her name and the word "moon." Use any type of sentence structure you like. You will be amazed by what she tells you!
Keywords: Roberta, moon
Very easy! Simply ask Roberta for a fortune. Use her name and the word "fortune." She will delight you with very mysterious fortunes. "Roberta, what is my fortune today?" "Oh Great and Mysterious Roberta, pray tell, what is my fortune?"
Roll those dice, Roberta! Snake Eyes! Roberta will roll dice for you, if you ask her. By now, if you have read a bit of this help file, you know how to ask. Shoot the dice with a friend! Remember, gambling is illegal. I don't want to see money exchanging hands!
Would not be any tricks if I told you about them, yes?
Remember this, to stop strangeness, to go back to reality, click Magic Button number one! Who knows? You might actually enjoy clicking on those magic buttons! Try them!