Maybe I'm a dinosaur all my experience with Chat comes from IRC in the 90's (which was horrible - net splits anybody) maybe it has gotten much better now. I wou

Maybe I'm a dinosaur all my experience with Chat comes from IRC in the 90's (which was horrible - net splits anybody) maybe it has gotten much better now. I wouldn't know I use email heavily today. Chat - rarely. The key difference to me is that Email is broken down into discrete messages by sender and subject it is easy to archive retrieve and resend (forward) those messages with additional attachments if need be. If you can do that with Chat now great.