From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 1 22:39:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DCA37B865 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 22:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000502053943.LZMJ13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@cx443070a>; Mon, 1 May 2000 22:39:43 -0700 Message-ID: <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Ron Rosson" , References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 22:39:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4132.1800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4132.1800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >After awhile the channel got a little busier. A guy greeted and asked if > anyone had heard if such and such a hardware was supported. One of the > operators asked if he had checked the website. the gentlemen responded > with a yes and that he also checked the /usr/src/sys/conf/i386/LINT file > as well. The operator responded with a smart-ass remark and some > vulgarity. and then banned the gentlemen. > > Now I know IRC is not an official place to get help for FreeBSD. But it > going thru its moments where people are helpful and not. But the thing > is it is easy to get to and it has some interaction in semi-real time. > It is a public forum just as much as HTTP and NNTP. With that in mind > there could be a little hint of advocacy in the channel instead of some > people with arrogance and the power of the '@'. > > Just something to think about. No, just something to think about would be this. There IS a help channel for FreeBSD on EfNet in which it IS safe to ask questions. It's called #freebsdhelp. The people asking for help in #freebsd are violating the channel rules and are defeating the whole purpose of having #freebsdhelp. Next time you see people asking for help in #freebsd, refer them to #freebsdhelp before they get banned. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message