Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 00:50:33 -0500 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@slashnet.org> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org> In-Reply-To: <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>; from jgowdy@home.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:39:25PM -0700 References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>
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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.
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