> 20-40 seconds is […] too much to use as a regular form of conversation between average parties With the current irc-ish UI the latency would clash with user

> 20-40 seconds is […] too much to use as a regular form of conversation between average parties With the current irc-ish UI the latency would clash with user expectations, but e-mail, message boards and quite a few other forms of communication regularly deal with much higher latencies. I suppose it depends on how you market it.