I was there Sun night and I didn't see anything of the sort. It was
well attended, the subject was Linux and some help on problems was
exchanged. My experience with the channel has been consistently
positive and I feel it is a strong contribution.
You sure you went to the right place?
Ed.
Mark wrote:
>
> I was on there and I saw the conversation drop to something that high
> schoolers might say. Now, that's great there is a #slug channel but if
> you are going to curse and generally act like an idiot I don't need to go
> to IRC to see it and the people I work with don't need to see it on my
> screen.
>
> I'm not being rude - I'm upset that someone set this up, said, "Hey come
> on out and participate." and then doesn't have the decency to act a little
> grown up when people show up. Then I get an email today saying, "Why
> isn't anyone using it?"
>
> We tried this 3 years ago at the LUG I was president of and it didn't work
> out like anyone wanted because:
>
> 1) People don't have the time
> 2) People don't get to really know one another like they do at meetings
> 3) Email is much easier and faster
> 4) A vast majority of people like to lurk and that is harder to do in IRC
> 5) And personally, I'm less likely to expose my little brother to people
> cursing and acting like idiots if I bring him to a meeting instead of
> getting him on IRC.
> 6) Emails can be saved into a searchable archive unlike IRC where you end
> up answering the same question over and over again.
>
> The original post of this thread made the assumption that since I reply to
> email that I should be able to hop on IRC - when the two are vastly
> different. I could keep going on but I'm sick of typing and you are all
> sick of reading. Let the thread die. I will not be replying anymore to
> this thread on this list. Email me personally if you have any questions.
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Bpreece wrote:
>
> > You do not have to be rude about this !!!!
> >
> > It was a simple question beause someone took the time
> > to create that for us. How about a little appreciation.
> > If you want a flame war the go to the politics message list please !!!
> >
> > It is much eaiser to say I have long hours and that is why I can't be on.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill Preece
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark <mark@bish.net>
> > To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
> > Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] IRC - Questions
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >Becuase I have a real job where I need to get real work done and it is a
> > >lot faster to send an email rather then login to a server, join a channel,
> > >and provide an answer to someone who might not be there. I don't have
> > >time to screw around all day.
> > >
> > >On Tue, 15 May 2001, fear me.. wrote:
> > >
> > >> I notice how many people are able to reply to the email post but dont
> > joins
> > >> us on IRC i wonder why that is. could you all please reply to this in the
> > >> reasons why you dont join us on IRC
> > >>
> > >> /server irc.axenet.org
> > >> /join #slug
> > >>
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >| Mark Bishop (mark@bish.net) | Computer Engineer |
> > >| 813.258.2390 | Network Engineer |
> > >| http://bish.net | Embedded Programmer |
> > >
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Mark Bishop (mark@bish.net) | Computer Engineer |
> | 813.258.2390 | Network Engineer |
> | http://bish.net | Embedded Programmer |
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