Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:25:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, Travis Cole <tcole@wcug.wwu.edu>, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005021925020.8491-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <20000502190132.A7377@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Bill Fumerola (billf@chc-chimes.com):
>
> > (1) They expect that it is their God-given right to get help in #freebsd.
>
> That is not true. When I was a lamer^Wnewbie, I went to the next
> IRC-Channel and asked something (how to extract a .tar.gz, actually).
> They told me, that there are manpages that explain most commands, and
> that there are many other docs on the internet at that-and-that place.
>
> Well done, after I had _this_ info I could find out myself and I did.
> But one had to point me to this things.
>
> People just don't imagine that there is a command like "man" which
> explains things.
One channel that helps you doesn't give you a privilege is every other
channel on IRC.
> > evading bans by coming back under different hostnames,
> > /msg flooding the ops/flooding the channel,
> > Using DoS attacks on the ops,
> > getting their friends to troll the channel.
>
> Eh, Bill :-)
> This are of course reasons to ki{ck,ll} [1] people, but I'm not
> talking about these guys. I talk about newbies.
>
> > (2) I try to put #freebsdhelp and or the handbook/FAQ in my kick reason.
>
> That's what I meant.
> Why is "/k newbie check #freebsdhelp" shorter for you than
> "please ask in #freebsdhelp".
Because it's said in the channel and no one listens.
> > (3) I often kick with the answer to the question/URL for more information.
>
> Same as above.
Same as above.
> Alex
>
> [1] IRC-Operator-Kill
>
>
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