Frogboy, I really must say, you and CariElf appear to have such stimulating conversations. 
It would be even better if it were in like... a web shape.
Like, a decahedron shape. Each point on the dechedron would be a person. A green line would be drawn between each person who has successfully connected. A red line would be drawn between the people who can't connect to eacch other.
Heh. Neat idea, this. I'm not sure if this'd present a bit of "information overload" when you've got 10 people trying to connect to each other, but I guess you'd probably still have that problem (only worse
) with a huge block of text.