From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 12:31:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.125.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983F437B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:31:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.3s) with SMTP id PAA29340; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:31:16 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: Alex Charalabidis , Geoff Kitching Subject: Re: IRC Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:35:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012415353400.24525@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of a response is that? The guy offers help, and just because he doesn't know there are already IRC servers, you send a caustic, sarcastic reply. Geoff, btw, there may not be a need for more IRC servers, but there are other ways to help the FreeBSD project if you want to. Tim On Wednesday January 24, 2001 14:34, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Geoff Kitching wrote: > > Hi, i was just wondering if you guys had any intentions on > > running an irc server. If you guys need a hand, i'll donate my time > > and administrate it for you. > > > > Please get back to me and let me know if you guys intend on > > running one, thanks a lot. > > The offer is most generous of you. Among dozens of major network IRC > server admins, we were unable to find a single one capable of running > ircd on FreeBSD. The running of irc.freebsd.org on EFnet was > contracted out to script kiddies using Red Hat Winux because nobody > involved with the FreeBSD project is elite enough to run ircd. But > I'm sure you are... > > Regards > > -ac To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message