From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 2 16:17:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (msb-ts-slip13.UMDNJ.EDU [130.219.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CF4037B9C3 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 9119 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 23:17:34 -0000 Received: from localhost.abuselabs.com (HELO localhost) (missnglnk@127.0.0.1) by localhost.abuselabs.com with SMTP; 2 May 2000 23:17:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:17:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Sean Kelly Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , Ron Rosson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC In-Reply-To: <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We set topics and we tell them verbally that it isn't a help channel but in turn we're either insulted or ignored, resulting in smart-ass remarks and/or bans. On Tue, 2 May 2000, Sean Kelly wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:39:25PM -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > 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. > > Just thinking aloud here, but when the #FreeBSD channel was made, the founders > should have known that people who needed help would randomly try to join a > #freebsd channel and ask for help. Wouldn't a more logical naming scheme would > be to have the help channel be #FreeBSD and the convo channel be #FreeBSD-Talk? > > You have to understand that it's not the users' fault that the names are so > undescriptive and generic. If it really bothers you that much, make some sort > of bot that sends a notice to people when they join that warns them that they > will be banned and refers them to #FreeBSDHelp. > > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message