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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Anthony Chan <anthony@warrior.denigrate.org>
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Since nobody else has replied to this already...

On 2005-05-10 10:47, Anthony Chan <anthony@warrior.denigrate.org> wrote:
> Good day,
> I'm not sure if im addressing this to the appropriate party.
> This is the contact that shows up on
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#IRC

Right.  Yes, you did sent this to the right place :-)

> Anyhow, I own #FreeBSDHelp on DALnet, we offer help and support on the
> operating system.

There is usually no good way to verify this, so we have to take your
word for it.

> Right now we have a decent amount of traffic and a decent amount of
> good, well experienced helpers.  I was wondering if it was possible to
> add us or better yet, the channel name on the site, this way we can
> offer help to more users.  We also own www.FreeBSDHelp.net which is
> currently in development.  If you can spread the name in anyway
> what-so-ever it would be highly appreciated, please send a response as
> soon as possible.

Would an entry like this be ok?

% Index: book.sgml
% ===================================================================
% RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
% retrieving revision 1.701
% diff -u -r1.701 book.sgml
% --- book.sgml    1 Apr 2005 18:51:35 -0000       1.701
% +++ book.sgml    11 May 2005 09:28:22 -0000
% @@ -1052,6 +1052,16 @@
%              </listitem>
%
%              <listitem>
% +              <para>Channel <literal>#FreeBSDHelp</literal> on
% +                <ulink url="http://www.dal.net/">DALNET</ulink>
% +                is available at <hostid>irc.dal.net</hostid> in the
% +                US and <hostid>irc.eu.dal.net</hostid> in Europe.
% +                The channel owners also have a web page with useful
% +                information about the channel and &os;, available at
% +                <ulink url="http://www.freebsdhelp.net/"></ulink>.</para>
% +            </listitem>
% +
% +            <listitem>
%                <para>Channel <literal>#FreeBSD</literal> on
%                  <ulink url="http://www.undernet.org/">UNDERNET</ulink>
%                  is available at <hostid>us.undernet.org</hostid>