From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 1 22:49:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from area51.slashnet.org (area51.slashnet.org [208.222.214.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE6237B9E4 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 22:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (cx497943-c.omhaw1.ne.home.com [24.7.36.238]) by area51.slashnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B66214D554; Tue, 2 May 2000 01:49:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E984AE6D3; Tue, 2 May 2000 00:50:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 00:50:33 -0500 From: Sean Kelly To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Ron Rosson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>; from jgowdy@home.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:39:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Sean Kelly or PGP KeyID: 77042C7B ICQ UIN: 27955995 EFAX: (603) 372-1638 IRC: drdink@SlashNET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message