From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Sep 4 10:33:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B741156FB for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (Hamilton-ppp44867.sympatico.ca [206.172.76.60]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11159; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA41224; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:32:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:32:37 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: David Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion - List IRC resources Message-ID: <19990904133237.B39038@mad> References: <000001bef6ef$97e163e0$8f3b8118@snoopy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <000001bef6ef$97e163e0$8f3b8118@snoopy>; from David on Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:07:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:07:31PM -0400, David wrote: > I hope you'll reconsider. Certainly many books that list Internet > references also mention IRC. Personally, I can't count how many times I've It has been considered in the past and rejected. IRC has caused newbies (and thus us) enough angst without being listed as an official resource. They tend to get abused on IRC and then come squawking about it over here (where "here" is any of -chat, -questions, -doc, -etc). -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message