[zaarn]

If I wanted real world conversation, I can drop into a conference call, I don't need IRC for that.

Chats in organizations are specifically for when email is not realtime enough but it's important to keep a record of the conversations for some time.

[krageon]

> Chats in organizations are specifically for

This varies immensely per organisation so it's always kind of dangerous to generalise like this. For example: The use-case you quote does not align with my experience of (bigcorp) chats at all.

[zaarn]

So your bigcorp does not require any chatlogs or did they phase out email entirely for chat? Or both?

[krageon]

Logs for regular chat are removed after a very limited amount of time.

[zaarn]

So you do need logs, just not forever.

[krageon]

I think either you misunderstood the scope of what I meant ("I need to see what I just wrote") or I misunderstood the scope of what you meant ("I need to see what I wrote last month") when talking about logging. I should have asked for a more specific definition.